Back in June I went to Christine Livingston’s Worklife Makeover workshop in London. It was a brilliant day, totally worth getting up at silly o’clock for. And an unexpected bonus came when I met Adrian Swinscoe. We knew each other a little via Twitter and here on the blog but as the day evolved, I…
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Aside from the fact that he’s the lovely chap who married my sister (yes, she talks more than me but thankfully he’s deaf in one ear ) our Friday Friend, Craig Woodhams, is also a very talented animation artist. His time lapse photography isn’t half bad either In honour of the fact that Craig works…
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Welcome to Friday! Look what we’ve got I had an email a few days ago from an amazing artist called Mike Flanagan. He does cartoons and, just between us, I think they’re brilliant! Long story short, he’s visited this little place of ours and created this amazing cartoon. For that reason, Mike is our Friday…
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Usually on a Friday I post interviews with one of Give A Brick’s friends. This might be someone who’s given money but other times it’s people who have given of their love and their time. This week’s friend has done all three. He’s given bricks (more than once), he’s written for the site and he’s…
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Better late than never, this week’s Friday Friend is the lovely Jen from Gurl’s Asylum. I caught up with her last night at about half past eleven via Skype. We were chatting about the week she’s had (and the exciting stuff she has going on this week to come) and it occurred to me that…
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They say that pride comes before a fall. I was very proud of my wonderful time management skills prior to our family trip to France. I had three weeks worth of blog posts scheduled to publish in my absense, tweets and all. I really should have known better! I’ve been playing catch up ever since…
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This week we have an interview with an offline Give A Brick friend (well, that’s not strictly true. Sadie is very much online but she’s my friend offline too ) and supporter, Sadie from EBay’s “Petal Est 2007” Sadie and I have known each other since our eldest children started in the Meithrin (school nursery)…
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It is my great pleasure this week to introduce our Friday Friend, Ayo Olaniyan from personal development blog and magazine Discovering Purpose. I’d highly recommend saying hello to Ayo on Twitter and if you don’t already receive a copy of his beautiful monthly magazine, be sure to visit his blog and sign up. It’s a…
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This week’s Friday Friends is Carlos Velez, a super duper guy from thinking blog ConsciousMe.com. Have you and he hooked up yet? If not, watch his interview then go and tell him how much you loved it over on Twitter. Or how about checking out his blog? (You might even find a little something from…
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Welcome to another Friday. Hooray! The weekend is almost here As many of you know already, I’m off to France with my lovely family in the wee small hours of tomorrow morning but before I go, it is my delight to introduce another Friday Friend. (As an aside, we’ll still have lots of wonderful news…
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