Each year I try to make small improvements to my life, my work, my fitness, my well-being etc. Small incremental improvements are much easier to…

New Look! Yes, as you can probably see, I’ve changed the way the site looks again. I’ve been tinkering about with this one for a…

One of the things I realised quite rapidly when I first started freelancing — and it’s an obvious one, really — is that you’ll have…

I don’t think it’s possible to have a perfect year. 12 months / 52 weeks / 365 days: all too big a time-span to guarantee…

I’ve been stressed again lately. The ups and downs of hormones, the DOOM of summer holidays, the move, the kids, the usual shit. When I…

In my last post about our recent house move I expressed frustration about a series of relatively minor but annoying problems that we’d had so…

Search for how to be a successful freelancer in your favourite search engine, and there’s no end to the list of tips and tricks people…

I started this week on a fantastic high. After having cracked squatting my bodyweight earlier this year (roughly 72kg give or take) I had been…

Last week I had a conversation with Gaz’s colleagues about my budget Monday shops, off the back of a one-off trip to Tesco for a…

I’ve been trying to justify buying a new laptop for nearly 2 years. Despite it being the only thing that allows me to earn an…

Alright me duckies, how are we all? You may notice that things look a bit different. I’ve gone a bit old skool, drawing inspiration from…

After the touch of reality reflected in the last post — how my over-spending and wastefulness was contributing to an unsteady financial future w/r/t buying…