2018: The Year It All Clicked
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 and mental health
Self employment / freelancing and mental health issues seem to go hand in hand. The stress of finding work, maintaining momentum, dealing with all the…
I do freelancing wrong (and I’m still successful)
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 bought a Dell XPS 15
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…
Is this it?
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…
Working in my pants and other tales from self employment
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…
What a day.
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…
Depressing money crap
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…
New project: maths, emails, and an empty ISA
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…
Be a little patient
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…
Chaos
As you may have figured out from my sporadic blogging of late, I’ve been a wee bit busy. Cramming in ALL THE WORK before Christmas…
I want to code
I’m sat at my laptop — nothing new there — with a work todo list as long as my arm because I did very little…