• Free Content from Bluewire Media

    Free Content from Bluewire Media

    You’re not supposed to give to receive but this world of content marketing is making a mockery of old world etiquette. This morning I got an email from Blue Media offering me this: I always have the best of intentions when it comes to free content, and I have a special folder where I keep…

  • No Ikea? How do you manage?

    No Ikea? How do you manage?

    My name is Fiona and I have been without Ikea in my like for nearly a year! Due to a “poor customer experience” the last time I was in Ikea Manchester I ended up “storming out”…. through the bed section, through the bathroom section, past the office stuff, down the travellator, through the lighting section…

  • I’m kind of over getting told to throw my hands up in the air, so there

    I’m kind of over getting told to throw my hands up in the air, so there

    The latest song by Lorde, “Team” plays regularly on any radio station I choose to listen to at the moment. I like the song but every time I hear it one line lingers: “I’m kind of over getting told to throw my hands up in the air, so there” In November last year I went…

  • Giving to Charity…

    Giving to Charity…

    *mobile phone rings* A ripple of excitement fizzles through the fingertips (my phone doesn’t ring very often). Mild panic takes over as it doesn’t seem to be in the place where the sound is coming from…. will I get to it in time…. A quick check of the number… one I don’t recognise…oh no it’s…