Technology

Oh I wish I were a geek sometimes, (not often, but sometimes). I am trying to post the link to my blog on facebook and dont know how to do it! Groan.

Memory like a sieve...

Its been sometime since I blogged. Thats because I had forgotten all the relevant details of signing in and having had a marvelous, swishy, black and very efficient laptop for Christmas, had no longer got access to original data.
Anyway, I am back! New company getting work in, we seem always to be doing site visits and quotes-which is good. We have agreed a new name-soon to be revealed-and have begun the process of designing web/paper/cards/everything.........very exciting.
I am busy networking at the crack of dawn a couple of times per week and am active in the Lichfield Network WiRE group, of which I am co-leader, along with the marvelous Ms White.
Off to see Mr & Mrs G shortly, I know design is ALL about the detail, but do we really have to discuss THAT much detail?!
Still, it will make for amazing before and after photos.

Idiot

Well, what made me think I would have time to write a daily blog!? Show me the 30mins spare and I will show you an idiot woman! Though I am sleeping terribly so I could get up at about 4am and do it then. Maybe I will pencil that in my diary.



I had a lovely creative Saturday, messing about all day with beads&buttons, delightful. I was so engrossed I forgot to buy another parking ticket and aquired a PCN!! Oh no, £25 if you pay up sharpish. Sigh.



I was due out at a concert at NEC that night, but didnt go. I feel kind of bad about not going, its really slack and lame to duck out of stuff...but, it was my loss and I decided I would rather stay in, home alone. The entire wasted money, aspirational planned non event seems symbolic of my personal life somehow. Time to wake up and smell the coffee being wafted under my nose months ago, methinks.



Anyway, less of that rubbish, I had a mediocre Saturday evening watching X. Sad to say but it keeps my winter Saturday's bearable and its the only night of the week I allow myself to switch off and not work. I have been told that I should avoid drinking alcohol if I am suffering from insomnia but as it was the weekend...



Interesting landscaping appointment on Sunday, with Mr & Mrs B on their windy patio, brr. The boys need to take a look, so we are going back next week.



The process of registering a company trundles on, we want an 0845 number but I need the bank account details. We havent got the bank account open till we have the company number, we dont have that till Mike James has had all the info he needs from us. All very chicken & egg.



I have had a day in the office today, thats what Mondays are for, I think. Was expecting a site visit to Mr T's garden, he may want the shizostylus moving, but he wasnt home so I couldnt access the garden.. Maybe in the morning?



Tomorrow I have to do a HUGE list of plants at the nursery for a job starting next week. The job has been a long time in the coming as I did the original Planting Scheme for the local authority before the barns were converted, ages ago. It will be nice to see it all come to fruition. Dr And Mrs L have been super clients.



I feel as though I have been neglecting myself, I have been living on bread and butter (multi seeded and organic, you understand) for weeks and I am feeling lethargic and lumpy, that, and I have run out of butter. So, concerted effort now, I have bought real food and am going to cook. Have invited friend Dawn for salmon en papilotte (two l's in papilotte/papillotte?).



So, a real person to talk to and real food to eat, what more could a body need?

A new day a new business

Whoo, something else to distract me from work! Not only do I have facebook-both personal profile-Joyce Bullock and a group one for Insight Design Consultancy, a twitter account, but now I am commiting to a regular blog!

Perhaps I am mad, but apparently its all good for business. And business is what I do, a life would be nice but for now its all about business.

Later today Tom, Neil and I will officially launch a new landscaping and design company, wahay! I am very excited about it, even though we have been working together for years I am so pleased to begin a more cohesive way of working, offering our client a more comprehensive service. We are seeing the accountant at 4pm and will register Woodyatt Construction as our company name and will trade as something else-yet to be confirmed.

All this in the midst of a busy week-playing catch up on Monday after a two day stint exhibiting at the Winter Fair at Stafford Bingley Hall. Tiring just hanging around in the cold, but good to hear the cows, see my lovely friend Lyn from Squeak Gift & Party, meet new clients (always good!!) and think about a little Christmas shopping-purchasing from other stall holders is a must-it keeps the economy flowing! Tuesday was on site planting at Mr T's house in Sutton Coldfield. I had bought some wonderful plants that will complement perfectly the fabulous David Austin Roses. I worked with Mr T's gardener, a wiry chap with just a few teeth remaining. He was kept going by having a fag every half hour or so... It was lovely doing a bit of graft and getting stuck in, but by the time afternoon came and the temperature started to drop I was beginning to seize up. I think I may be getting old. I was positively done in by the time I got home and spent the evening ga ga!

Wednesday is always a toughie, I am captive all day in a windowless room doing something I would rather not.....I got out at lunchtime and ate my soup in a car park. Back to the cupboard for a stint, rush home and then rush out to teach my gardening class at Walton School, Stafford. Having done my PTLLS class last week, I now realise I am struggling with 'diversification' and would cheerfully punch one of the learners, though the LEA object to this. Still, we got the projector going, having done last weeks PTLLS class I now appreciate that using different teaching resources is important.

An appointment with the specailist today post car accident in July-was advised to put it on and groan in faux pain but I couldnt do it....am just no good at lying, dammit. I have probably done myself out of a bit of $ now but hey, you cant be someone you are not.

I have to write a 10minute presentation shortly, for my PTLLS course (Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector), along with loads of other homework that forms the portfolio of course work. Its almost fun pretending to a be a commuter/normal person and catch the train in the our second city. The Christmas market is on and is lovely, but all the dawdling folk annoy me and I want to swear at them and shove them out of the way: Note to self-look at anger management workshop!?

Saturday, ah Saturday. I am looking forward to Saturday, I am doing a jewellery workshop with lovely Julie W, soo looking forward to it. Then I am off to see James Morrison in concert in the evening, my escort has buggered off golfing in Florida so a girlfiend will accompany me.

Sunday, oh yes, more work, I have an appointment with some people I met at Winter Fair. The took me up on my offer of a FREE site visit. Now not only can I/we offer fantastic garden design, we can offer the complete package with superb construction, fantastic customer service and professionals you would be very happy to have around. Cant say fairer than that!

Well, that seems like lots of writing. I wonder if I will learn to precis or edit (Christine says I SHOULD), or perhaps type quicker?