Work Life Week 22nd-26th September

Work Life Week 22nd-26th September

Sep 19, 2014 | Blog, Residential

The Working Families organisation is committed to supporting real life changes to help people better balance their work and family responsibilities, to which end they have been promoting National Work Life Week, in September, each year since 2010. The central aim of...
Make the most of your summer time with the children

Make the most of your summer time with the children

Jul 11, 2014 | Blog, Residential

According to Theophrastus, one of Plato’s greatest scholars, “time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.” Along a similar vein, nineteenth century writer, Henry Mackay, once said “time is free, but it is priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t...
Get Creative in Your Garden Studio

Get Creative in Your Garden Studio

Jun 20, 2014 | Blog, Residential

The artist, Grayson Perry, says that all of his studios hark back to his father’s shed, where the tool strewn workbench became the cockpit of a fantasy aircraft journeying to imagined lands. A place apart, where anything can happen. Somewhere peaceful for, quiet...
Boost your creativity and walk to work in a Garden Office

Boost your creativity and walk to work in a Garden Office

May 9, 2014 | Blog, Residential

Next week (12th to 16th May) is Walk to Work Week. You should give it a crack – walking is good for you on so many levels. Hippocrates deemed that “walking is man’s best medicine” whilst Nietzsche purported that “all truly great thoughts are conceived while...
Swap the stresses of the workplace for the comfort of home

Swap the stresses of the workplace for the comfort of home

Sep 1, 2013 | Blog, Residential

Wouldn’t it be great if the summer, and the lie-ins, never had to end? While we can’t rely on the British sunshine lasting until Christmas, the return of the colder months doesn’t have to bring your 9-5 routine along with it. So if you’ve been dreaming of the benefits...