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Thermography: Detecting Hidden Damage

Thermography: Detecting Hidden Damage When your house is being assessed for damage after an accident, much of it is obvious on sight. Some damage, though, is hidden and may only start causing problems long after your claim is settled, such as water damage in walls, or wet insulation. The only way to find these by

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Give me space! The Creative Writing Challenge…

β€œCreative Writing? I’m too busy!” Finding space to write, even in your head… Hello, how’s January going for you so far? Over here at Creative Writes, we are continuing work on the new website and planning the ongoing programme of creative writing workshops for Muswell Hill, North London, N10 which is really exciting. Do you

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Happy New Year Small Businesses

Happy New Year Small Businesses It’s a New Year and what does that mean for your business?   A. It means that if you have been feeling that your business hasn’t been going as well as you like, then this is time for a new start. B. If your business in 2016 was moving forward

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How To Prepare for a Marathon

How To Prepare for a Marathon – Getting Started It’s ballot season, you’ve just received your London Marathon entry! Instagram post done, twitter updated and Facebook status uploaded – now what? Before you start looking for some new shoes to buy and get fitted at a running shop, read this! Marathon running is different to

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8 Tips for Email Management

8 Tips for Email Management When I worked in an office as a full-time PA, email management was often one of my tasks (although some bosses hated anyone else going through their emails!).Β Β  Some bosses’ inboxes, let alone my own, received several hundred emails a day and at times it was hard to keep up.

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Clissold Arms can Take you Through Life

Clissold Arms can Take you ThroughΒ Life I’d always known we were versatile but it was only a few days ago when I realised that we were in one way or another, suited to pretty much any event (within reason, of course) In fact, a lot of people don’t realise even close to how versatile we

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Why Does It Matter

WHY DOES IT MATTER? Β  Please do not disturb! Writing in response to photos from the C&C Archive During one of my recent workshops, I asked the group – who I have been working with since January, why the weekly writing workshops matter to them? I asked them this because they were talking about how

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Orders in Family Constellations

      I often hear people say: β€œI like family constellations but I’m not sure about the orders as I don’t like hierarchy”. The orders, or orders of love as Bert Hellinger, the originator of family constellations calls them, have nothing to do with a strict hierarchical system.Β  So what are they about? We

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It takes two to make a baby…

One year ago yesterday, the Government introduced the concept of shared parental leave (β€œSPL”) with an estimated a take up of between 2 – 8% in the first year. Β  SPL gives parents the option of sharing statutory leave and pay between the two of them, rather than the traditional method of the mother being

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Teens, Screens & Sleep

Anyone with a teenager (or pre-teen…) at home will be well versed in the β€˜get off your phone!’ mantra.Β  It’s an epidemic amongst these guys – whatsapp, Instagram, snapchat…words we had never even heard of just a few years ago.Β  Contrary to what my own teen thinks, I will admit that it’s not all negative.

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