Happy Mondays everyone… Can you see the link? Check the picture out, as it’s Manchester rock band Happy Mondays drummer & founding member Gaz Whelan, planting our tree’s. Gaz came up from Manchester last Thursday, after catching wind of what we’re up to with mental health charity Shiva Trust, lending a hand and his support

How some start-ups go on to become extremely successful has always intrigued me… I mean companies like Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft & even electric car titan Tesla. So, when I came across ‘Zero to One’ by Peter Thiel I was extremely pleased. But I’m not sure if you know who Peter Thiel is? He’s co-founder

It’s important to have an audacious vision, but maybe not quite as audacious as electric car and spaceship entrepreneur Elon Musk has… Do you know what it is? He wants to colonise Mars. I’m not kidding, this has always been his long-term vision. How do I know? Well, I read his only authorised book (written

Top golfer Gary Player once said, “the harder I practise the luckier I get”. You could say this about many different sports stars, who dedicate their lives in pursuit of the perfect round, game, or race. A while back I read Bounce (written by Matthew Syed). Matthew is a well-respected journalist and author, who earlier in his life

Visiting families are getting involved and planting our trees too… Over the weekend… Redouane and Lina with children Zara and Maryam, called at mental health charity Shiva Trust, and had a great time planting 60 of our trees near the new pond development. You can get your very own tree planted by subscribing to any of our

Are you ready for a ‘good to great’ business book review? ‘Good to Great’ by Jim Collins is a No. 1 bestseller and has now sold over 4 million copies. It’s an amazing study on why some companies manage to go from a good company to a great company, by sustaining high growth over a

Forget Black Friday & ignore Cyber Monday… Our special offer is running now & right up until midnight on 31st December. Buy 1 of our own brand printer cartridges (ink or toner) & get your 2nd cartridge (cheapest) at HALF PRICE! You can buy as many as you want, and you’ll get each 2nd cartridge

Apparently, Einstein once said… ‘Compound interest is the 8th wonder of the world’ and ‘the greatest mathematical discovery of all time’. When discovering this, it reminded me of a fable: George had worked hard all his life, was clever with his investments and amassed a wealthy estate. His 2 sons (Paul & John and his

Meet Kris and Tess, they were walking the Rossendale Way yesterday… Whilst the Shiva Trust charity team were out planting our trees, and unbelievably, Kris & Tess decided to join in for an hour or 2. The Rossendale Way is a 45-mile circuit walk, and takes you over wild moorland, where you can explore a

Did you know? In 2005 some Silicon Valley tech firm firms (including Apple, Google & Intel) had a secret agreement not to poach employees from each other…. Straight up, it’s true! More than 64,000 people in Silicon Valley were affected and in 2015 Judge Lucy Koh approved a $415 million settlement. The aim of the