I, Steve, took a series of courses beginning in 2002 to learn more about what makes us behave and live in the way we do. The whole experience changed my thinking and set me on a different path for the rest of my life. You may know it as Life Coaching, Work/Life balance, self help […]
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Have you Heard?
Fosse 107 is the local radio station for Loughborough and Charnwood broadcasting on 107FM to more than 170,000 people. Back in the summer of 2016 Loughborough lost its commercial radio station – but within months it was back on air thanks to a group of locals who made it their mission to keep local broadcasting […]
Step into Spring with a Beautiful Lawn
The British weather will remain unpredictable, but what we can say for sure is that many lawns will be ready for some TLC come the Spring.
After a Winter of mixed weather, lawns will soon start to look yellow, sparse and very mossy.
Think Lucky and You’ll be Lucky…
In the early days of British network television, in the late 1950s and early 60s, there was a regular 5 minute astrology slot after the early evening news on ATV. This was written and presented by Evadne Price and her signing off phrase was the title of this month’s welcome letter.
Conflict of Interest
We mean this in a benign way, more of an inevitable irony perhaps… A little over three years ago we made the big leap and chose to manage our own distribution. Initially we used the Royal Mail, but within a few months that became impossible;Â as we grew – in numbers delivered and pages in […]
We need your photos!
Launching the most prestigious photographic competition this side of the Carillon Tower (and the other side too, for that matter!) In the early days of Soar Valley Life magazine we chose photos for our front cover from one’s we had taken ourselves. We’d match the dominant colour of the photo and create a header in […]
Pressing the Pause Button
Mary and I went on a little break to Harrogate at the beginning of June – a little bit of research, family history, heritage railway discovery at the Worth Valley Railway, literature culture at The Bronté Museum in Haworth, and finding out how ordinary objects turn to stone at Mother Shipton’s Cave in Knaresborough. And, of course,
