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…

(Update 2019-08-07: this article is now available in Brazilian Portuguese: 10 dicas para um site WordPress mais rápido) — Website speed is a huge factor…

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…

Self employment / freelancing and mental health issues seem to go hand in hand. The stress of finding work, maintaining momentum, dealing with all the…

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’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…

I have spent a large part of the past few weeks jumping from one ‘chaos moment’ to another (as per usual) and I was sat…

I’ve been working for myself (either fully, or alongside employment) for over four years now. I like to think that I’ve got to grips with…

Gaz is away til late tonight so I have 3 options: Catch up on some more work, which I need to do. Catch up on…

I’ve just come off the phone to my current mortgage provider. I rang up to see how much I’d likely be able to borrow if…

What do you do when you try and find a site that allows the re-sale of preloved cloth nappies but the only one that did…

We’re on day 3 of the new year and I’m yet to write any of my typical end of year posts for 2015: what I…