I am currently learning three languages, in addition to my native English. Every morning, first thing, I spend around an hour learning Latin, Italian and Spa...

As I tie up all the loose ends in the office, for both Perfect Words and The Sanctuary Angels (my animal charity), I want to take a moment to reflect on 2019...

October was all about the lull. Academic clients were few and far between, which meant having time finally to indulge in The Crown on Netflix while nursing a...

Make sure that subject and verb agree (either singular or plural). This can be tricky to spot, especially if we look to the part of the subject sitting close...

Being self-employed can be like being on a rollercoaster, as I have said before. You either have so much work that you can barely breathe or so little that e...

As I celebrate ten years of Perfect Words, by Amanda George, I realise that I have now spent as much time running and growing my freelance editing/proofreadi...

It's been a funny year. I've just done my end-of-year figures and, despite two fairly serious health setbacks, it has been my best year yet. This of course m...

For a while now I have been practising meditation every morning. It is actually incredibly difficult to still the mind, even when purposefully trying to prac...

Let us ignore the large gap between blogs (I have been busy, which is good) and move straight on to my hot topic of the moment: customer service. For some ti...

With deep shame, I see that my last blog was written in May 2016, almost a year ago, in the (not quite) first bloom of spring. In fact, this is a good sign, ...

They're everywhere. In all walks of life. Unfortunately, when you come across them when you're self-employed invariably you don't have the back-up of your of...

It's something that no one particularly wants to articulate, for fear of admitting that work has run dry (the implication being that there is something wrong...