Category: Wonderings
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Eight years of content writing
After I left Yell, where I had my very first copywriting job, I continued writing content for them. Many, many articles about small business marketing – I loved it. I kept at it for eight years. Unfortunately, they scaled back a lot of their freelance resource last year. Now, their content hub has had a…
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Extra hardware
I like gubbins. Bits. No, not those bits. Furbelows. On houses, on cars and on clothes. On everything, please, and the sillier, the better. Ornate brass skirting board corner protector levels of silly. What I have realised is that there is nothing stopping me adding a useless strap to a pair of shorts. Extra loops…
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Local chaz does 00s and I’m here for it
One of my fave charity shops in the village has been drip-feeding me someone’s childhood wardrobe from the early noughties. Obviously, I was thrilled to see two pairs of trousers in that recognisably denim-ISH stretch fabric, a three-quarter length leg and a satin butterfly applique. But it kept coming. Every time I went in, I…
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Why the hell was I speaking at the Royal College of Physicians?
I am, famously, not a doctor. Or scientist. Or practical person of any kind. So what on EARTH was I doing at the front of a lecture hall at the Royal College of Physicians on Friday? Talking about creatives and their brains, of course. I’ve been a professional copywriter for well over a decade, but…
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Little clown
An emblem I love is the clown. So many people hate them, but not me. Love ’em. Circuses in general, really. I love the old sign writing, striped tents, sequinned costumes and darkness just beyond the lights. I had the idea, years ago, that a clown suit would make excellent loungewear. Clowngewear? Maybe not. I…
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