Reflexology gift vouchers

by admin on November 10, 2010

Give the gift of relaxation this Xmas with a reflexology gift voucher.
I hope you will soon be able to order a gift voucher online and pay instantly with Paypal in the next few days.
Meanwhile just phone or text for details – 0770 49 49 361.

Hope you love the design as much as I do – thanks very much to Cheryl at Squiddlypiff Graphic Design.

Gift Voucher

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Women in business in South West Scotland

by admin on September 18, 2010

Many women dream of working for themselves. Some have a clear goal and a definite plan to get there. Others drift from one project to another trying to find the one special project to sink their precious time into. For most of us have family, day jobs, and other demands on our time.

It can seem lonely and a bit daunting when you dream of starting your own business especially if you have no friends or family who have business experience. When I first started I attended some classes at Business Gateway and found them useful certainly but still not quite what I needed. There were a few Womens Networking evenings organised by Business Gateway which I attended in the early days but they seem to have faded away over the years – maybe they’re still happening but I’m not aware of them!!

So I read with interest of the Mumpreneur’s Network in Dumfries and Galloway. It’s grown from 10 members to over 250 in the last year according to Dumfries and Galloway Standard. So many women in business in South West Scotland! – fantastic! I can’t wait to find out more!

I love listening to other people’s enthusiasms and passions. To their business ideas and finding out how they’ve developed and grown, what challenges they’ve faced along the way. What works for them, how they market their ideas.. in fact anything to do with running your own business interests me. I’m fascinated by the great ideas out there and how people have taken that initial idea and brought it into being.

I realise I should have been looking for just this type of network of like-minded people to inspire me and keep me focussed. Many’s the time I’ve felt I’ve been floundering and would have loved someone with similar interests to talk to and throw ideas back and forward with. So if like me you feel you could benefit from this type of network contact Lisa Dunn by email at info@HexagonVA.co.uk for more details.

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New blog address – blog.footfairy.co.uk

August 21, 2010

I’ve moved most of my posts over to the Footfairy blog now. The new address is blog.footfairy.co.uk Hope you’ll continue to check things out every now and then.

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Breathing advice for asthma sufferers

August 19, 2010

Breathing is such an automatic process that we’re not usually aware of it unless there is a problem. It comes as a shock when you notice that you’re having difficulty breathing. And it’s easy for panic to set in. I’ve been an occasional asthmatic for over 20 years. Initially diagnosed after the birth of my [...]

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AAGH! Problems upgrading WordPress to 3.0.1

August 17, 2010

I’ve just spent the last 40 minutes restoring my WordPress blog from backup. Not too sure why this upgrade hasn’t worked as I’ve not had a problem with any previous installations or upgrades. I wonder if it’s because my blog is in a subsite?? Not too sure about that. Thank goodness I backed everything up [...]

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Snap happy – adventures with a camera.

August 1, 2010

Did you ever think about doing something which was totally out of your reach. Like be a ballerina, show-jumper, arctic explorer? Most of us can think of something we’ve always thought about doing but never pursued. Sometimes for reasons we can’t control, sometimes those old Self – inflicted limitations. But often things change and an [...]

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Sad ipod

July 31, 2010

Technology’s a wonderful thing when it works but just when you get used to it – it lets you down. I’m not a gadget’s person. But I do like my old ipod. It’s a hand-me-down which used to belong to one of my children so it must be easily 4 or 5 years old. But [...]

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August Book of the Month – Dynamic Breathing

July 30, 2010

August’s Book of the Month is “Dynamic Breathing – How to manage your asthma” by Dinah Bradley and Tania Clifton-Smith. It’s a slim volume, just 105 pages, in the Overcoming Common Problems Series by Sheldon Press. The book is written by two practising respiratory physiotherapists with a wealth of experience in breathing pattern disorders. In [...]

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Do you remember making rose petal scent?

July 20, 2010

When I ordered James Wong’s book I must have been thinking of the days when we were kids and made our own scent from rose petals. Well – that was the idea – but after the petals had soaked for a few days no-one was daft enough to try out the resulting gunge. I’m pretty [...]

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July Book of the Month – Grow your own Drugs

June 25, 2010

Everyone is interested in living healthily and making the most of what we have to hand. The use of plants for health and beauty is a practice as old as time. A bit of an overstatement perhaps but only slightly. It’s hard to believe now when we’re used to popping pharmaceuticals which are produced on [...]

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