One of the things that I love about St Annes is the view of distant hills that keep tempting me to explore them. To the North the Lakeland fells, to the south Snowdonia and to the east Rivingon and the West Pennine moors, today was one of the better days...
I’ve still got a mild cold and last night it decided to step things up a notch, gifting me with shivers and a arthritis flare in my left arm, shoulder and lower right leg. That’s just the kind of random selection of body parts that I’m used to, so there’s...
Last night I started with a cold, which as tends to happen triggered a little bit of a flare, which in turn brought back to life a bad bruise on my leg which had me limping around. I decided that my best option was to relocate tomorrows walk to St...
On my personal blog I wrote an article yesterday about how I’ve built an anti-fragile lifestyle, to offset the unpredictability that my health conditions impose. In this post I thought I would explore how I’ve applied the same principles in business to create an organisation that’s also resilient to the...
Although the weather’s been a bit blustery and chilly when the clouds came over, today’s been a wonderfully warm social time. The day started as it almost does with me saying goodbye to a sleepy Debbie to come downstairs and feed the hungry cats, before heading out on my bike...
Swimming is starting to become a habit, I added another two lengths, so I’m up at 18 now and although my shoulders are sore they are coping. My legs continue to be really, really sore when I’m walking up and down stairs, but I’m swimming better and they are stronger...
I’m still really, really sore and stumbling around a bit while walking, but that’s not stopping me swimming or cycling, although I’m taking it easy with both of them. I did 16 lengths of the pool today and I’m planning to up that by 2 lengths a day until I’m...
I felt the first twinge of boredom today, that’s not bad going since I retired nearly 3 months ago and I have a good reason. I’m really really sore from yesterdays workout and my head feels fuzzy from the difficulty sleeping, because I was really really sore last night too! ...
This year has seen interest in workplace design gradually building; a few consultancies have been established; blogs and podcasts have created; a couple of books have been written; and of course the start-ups have been investing their VC’s millions in fancy offices that get plenty of publicity. It’s nice to...
This post was first published on my business blog, which I’m closing down now that I’ve retired, so I’m archiving some of the better posts to this blog. All too often offices are designed based on an efficiency metric that works for the facilities management organisation, cost/person, needs to be...