Day at the Circus
It was my daughter, Daisy’s birthday last week and with her birthday money she insisted that she wanted to go to the circus. Paulo’s Circus Americano was down on the beach lawns in Weston super Mare from last week till Sunday. I must admit that at the tender age of 31, I have never been to the circus in my life, although my mom would disagree and says she took me when she was little. (She didn’t though!)
We went on Saturday and it was really good. There were hula hooping girls, a wheel of death, funny clowns that balanced on stuff, Spiderman on a rope, this amazing woman who span objects around on her feet while lying on her back and a man balancing on a ladder then jumping off. It was really very good and the whole show lasted 2 hours. The sideview seats were perfect and the kids had a lovely time, and so did the adults! We were not allowed to take photographs but the link to their website is here http://www.pauloscircus.co.uk/ so take a look and see where you can see them in action next. I think their next venue is in Nailsea 11th - 15th March.
Filed under Uncategorized | Comment (0)Happy New Year!
Well another year has passed….glad all that Christmas malarky is out of the way now I can concentrate on getting more exciting things done.
No new years resolutions as such but I am definitely going to make more of an effort to do more exercise, since I used to play netball every week until I was diagnosed with skin cancer on my back and had to have two operations, I couldn’t play and since then I have done nothing apart from sit on my ass and do computer related stuff (inbetween snacking from the fridge).
It is an exciting time for me as my web design business is getting off the ground, at last! And I have an induction with The Princes Trust on Thursday this week so thats promising.
And if this cold weather continues then at least I had a nice new leather jacket for Christmas, and some big pants!
Filed under Uncategorized | Comment (0)4 Days Without the Internet!
There I was on Thursday, the day of the Princes Trust conference / mini trade fair, dropped the children off at school and came home to hear those dreaded words “We have no Internet connection!” No Internet connection, you mean on probably the most important day of my business life, a trade fair to prepare for and I am a web designer and I have no Internet connection!!! Typical, surely things like this don’t only happen to me?
Luckily I had prepared most of my designs earlier in the week when I could, I am used to things going wrong like this so expect nothing less. Pessimistic, no. Well organised, well maybe.
The trade fair went well, saw the lady off the news, Lisa Aziz but managed to dodge the TV crew! All in all a good event, I met some lovely people from businesses all over the South West, thank you to all the other traders for some great tips and ideas on starting in business.
I had not such a great time at the Charity Ball at the Winter Gardens on Saturday night as on the way home I fell over and banged my head, and my elbow which is now very purple and bruised. I would like to add that it was nothing to do with the wine I consumed, it was raining and the shoes I had on had no grips. That is my story and I am sticking to it!
Anyway the Internet is now back on and I will be having words with Talk Talk!
Filed under Uncategorized | Comment (0)A week to get organised!
Well there I was on Tuesday, thinking how I was going to drum up some more business by expanding my horizons, when I had an email from Sally at The Princes Trust, asking me if I would like to attend a Trade Fair at The Marriot Hotel. A Trade Fair, moi?? I paused for a moment with my inner child going “no way!” and trying to wriggle out of it. But hang on, this may be a real opportunity for me, especially as that lady from points west, Lisa Aziz is going to be there interviewing poor unsuspecting new business people.
So I have agreed to do the trade fair, yes it will be fun. Whats the worst thing that could happen?……
I would also like to add that I have joined this really amazing site called Ecademy, its a networking site, you can join for free and theres loads of people who are members from all over the world, all walks of life and all kinds of diverse business types. If you, like me, need to “get out more” then its a much more worthwhile networking site than Facebook or Myspace. Well for business contacts anyway!
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