Positive Age Markers

What are Positive Age Markers?  Do you ever feel bombarded on how to age? Gracefully? Disgracefully?   This question has been on my mind for a little while, what is the best way to age, surely it should be healthily? But what does that look like? If,...

What is a community?

What is a community? I saw an article recently which questioned the community I live in. The woman who wrote it had lived in my town in her childhood (many decades ago) and had recently visited in the guise of promoting a book she had written, a book based here. She...

Guest blog – #3 The Storm Breaks

Washing clean the past but opening up a way into what new future?  I survived that meeting and walked out, then immediately had to run to the toilets and be sick. This has never happened to me before, or since.   At the start of this tale, I said I was...

Guest blog #2 A welcome change….

BLOG – Part Two A welcome change, which led from bad to worse, not better Eventually, we started to return to the office part-time and what an absolute delight that was… …finally, I was able to get to know my colleagues properly and that was also when some...

Guest Blog – Building storm clouds on the horizon

BLOG – Part One Hi, I’m Susan and, over the past year, I’ve navigated some of the toughest professional challenges I’ve ever had to face. It actually started several years previously and looking back the red flags were there, clear as day, but I...

The ups and downs of lost motivation

Some days, I wake up and wonder, what was I thinking?  This path I chose in building a social enterprise on my own definitely isn’t glamorous. As I sit in my office in the garden, by myself with radio 2 to keep me company, I sometimes have the think back to the...