A couple of weeks ago, my ‘other half’ and I took a few days off. The weather wasn’t great, so most of our activities remained indoors and one of those days was spend perusing the sights and shops of Newcastle. On our travels we ended up in Grainger market and found a long sought afte

I recently did some recordings with Silverline Memories in Newcastle which involved an afternoon with the attendees of a dementia cafe. Sandra from Silverline had told everyone that I would be coming along to record and asked them to bring a photo that brought a smile to their face. I

I was recently followed by someone new on Twitter. Nothing odd or unusual there, you might think. “I get new followers all the time”, you might be saying. But I mention this specifically, not to show off, but because of their Twitter name. The name was a combination of letters and num

There’s something that’s happened to me a few times over the last few months that niggles me, but I generally grumble a bit and move on.  You’ll know what it is if you use Twitter, and chances are it’s happened to you too. But this thing that “nigglesR

I am an avid Twitter user.  I look at pictures, I watch videos, I ask questions, I answer questions and I promote my services and the services of others. I find out what’s happening in the news, on the roads, with the weather and I try and share information about what I’m

I write two regular blogs. One for this site with a business leaning. The other is a very personal blog that I write and promote unrelated to me.  I find blogging pretty easy because I’ve always found writing easy.  I write as I speak.  I even read my blogs out loud to hear if t

Do you ever get an overwhelming feeling when you hear a song that means a lot to you? It pops on the radio and it takes you back to a time, a place or an event and before you know where you are, you’re beaming from ear to ear and singing along, or tears are streaming down your f

I’ve recently uploaded a new Soundslide for Jen Hart, an award-winning photographer based in Middlesbrough. She’d seen a testimonial Soundslide that I’d created for another Teesside based company and knew that one would work for her too. As you might imagine, a photographer specialisi

Imagine having a member of a sales team that once you’ve hired them, they will never cost you another penny. Imagine that that member of the sales team could work for you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year and never complain or ask for a holiday! An impossible dream? Not w

How loved is your website?  Do you regularly post a blog?  Change the pictures?  Update the copy?  Or did your website designer get it up and running a couple of years ago and you’ve hardly looked at it since? Well, my change of company name and logo forced a website change upon me a