Moving on and letting go.

Sometimes holding onto something is the right thing to do. It could be a dream or an idea that only you believe in and you know that if you just get around this corner you’ll see the finish line, even though the whole world is screaming at you its over. But sometimes letting go is the […]

How to reseal a caravan

  The old tragic story of a badly sealed caravan vs its arch enemies damp and rot, but for a change this one has a happy ending. The first step in reclaiming our caravan and turning it into an office was to make it watertight again. At first it seemed a fairly simple project but […]

Removing Resistance

Resistance is a funny old thing, its around us all the time and once your used to it you completely forget its there. You just get on with life thinking that this is the required amount of energy to get a task done, but once you remove it things happen so much easier. Less resistance […]

Converting a Caravan to an Office

This is to the story of a caravan conversion. Some time ago I watch a show where Kevin McCloud show where he made a shed out of thin air, but it was more than a shed it was an oasis of calm. My plan was to create something similar at the bottom of our garden. […]

A Year On and What Have We Learned

1st Birthday Candle

Its about a a year since this blog was started, a whole year! Loads of things have happened, my girls are a year older, we’ve had year of learning that not all dogs do what they say in books, I’ve started cycling, our business’s have had a year of ups and downs (mainly downs), we’ve […]

Consistency

“It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It’s what we do consistently.” – Anthony Robins If I was to pick out the one area of my life that a small change to would have the biggest impact it would be consistency.  I’m very good at starting things, brilliant in fact, I start […]

Practice what you preach

This is just a mini rant. If your company says it can do something when I look at your site I expect it to be a shining example of your ability to do what you say. The other week we went to an Invest NI workshop on user experience and conversion optimisation, it was very […]

The Perfect Ginger Beer Recipe – Part 1 – The Challange

We’ve been making ginger beer for some time now and generally it has been our storeroom staple. It’s cheap, natural, easy, super fast, most of the ingredients are from the supermarket and best of all its great on a summers day. Our ingredients are Ginger Unrefined Sugar Lemons Cream of Tartar Yeast I haven’t given […]

Springer Cross Names

As you know we’ve recently added Lester to our family who is a Spreagle. While looking for a Springer pup I’ve come across allot of great names for springer based dogs which I thought I would share Spreagle – Springer + Beagle Springerdoodle – Springer + Poodle Sprollie – Springer + Collie Springerdor or a […]