The loneliness of the long distance runner

The first time I saw him, I was out walking the dog. It was a Sunday morning and the streets were deserted as people slept away their Saturday night binges. He was as surprised as I was when he turned the corner and saw us. One moment he was running, the next he was walking, [...] Click here to read more »

The key to making money

Glasgow is full of locksmiths. It’s not hard to find one lodged between a Greggs and an RBS on many a road. So there I was, in Glasgow’s West End, needing a set of keys cut and with more choices than I knew what to do with. This particular locksmith’s shop front caught my eye. [...] Click here to read more »

How to keep on top of Web Filing and important tax dates

Web filing, corporate tax, annual returns… they all have one thing in common: they come around and slap you hard every year. And unlike the number 12 to Kings X, these events are never late for a date. When I registered my second company, I did exactly the same thing I did with my first [...] Click here to read more »

Bottle Water versus Tap Water. Who wins?

Cool clip about the bottled water industry (no pun intended) – worth sharing for those who need to raise an eyebrow every now and again. (this is where I would embed said clip, for your viewing…) But somebody decided not to allow embedding. The message in the video is intended to make us wiser and [...] Click here to read more »

Why never sleeping is better for you and your business

We need sleep. Nobody can argue with this. How much sleep is an ongoing debate with many schools of thought supporting various ideas on the subject. I myself have tried different ideas out and on one occasion completely wrecked my sleeping patterns for three months. In my quest for efficiency I discovered the work of [...] Click here to read more »

Domain Renewal letter warning!

If you registered your own domain name for your business (or for personal purposes) you’ll know that there is  a renewal few every so often. Generally – unless you extend the period of hiring for longer – a .co.uk domain name expires after 2 years (at which point it has to be renewed) and a [...] Click here to read more »

How to get things cheaper

Recently one of my favourite clients – a natural salesman if ever there was such a thing (which of course there never was) gave me a fantastic buying tip. I had popped round to his office to offer some help with an issue he was having. Normally I would deal this with any issue on-line, [...] Click here to read more »

The annoying phantom 0800 wrong number caller

Recently my 0800 number has been ringing off  the hook, which is odd since I haven’t been marketing it. But here’s the annoying thing… Whenever I answer, the caller says: sorry wrong number’ and hangs up. At first I thought nothing of it. But very soon I began to get a little annoyed. I knew [...] Click here to read more »