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Who is Nexus Publishing? Originally from a small town called Darlaston – about ten miles north of Birmingham – I moved to West Sussex about ten years ago to help develop one of the first online retailers. Having recently moved to Shropshire I am now enjoying the working from home life in a semi rural location. I have been a freelance writer and journalist for about fifteen years. Eight of them were spent doing various other jobs such as bookshop assistant, print finisher and returns clerk for a large library supplier, with the writing taking up evenings and any of my spare time. As you can see, much of my life so far has been spent working with books and publishing of one kind or another. My time as an employee came to a conclusion some six years ago with redundancy, so I took the opportunity – and the money – to see if I could survive as a full-time freelance writer. That was five years ago. There have been some lean times – just ask my wife, Joanne. But after tasting the freelance life, there’s no going back.

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Friday, July 4th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under

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I am Not a Paper Cup

Most homeworkers have an obession with coffee or whatever your favourite beverag is. If you’re like me I moved through loads of mugs and cups over the years, and a corresponding number of coffee makers to boot.

But if you want to recreate the days when you commuted to work and stopped off at your favourite coffee emporium for the first cafine fix of the day, you can with this ceramic cup that is designed to look just like a take away plastic cup that all commuters are familiar with.

Nigel’s Eco Store describes this great piece of design as: ‘a reusable, double walled, thermal ceramic mug with a re-sealable silicon lid that’ll keep your coffee safe, and reduce your need for paper cups (which only end up being thrown away). Take a small step to reducing your carbon footprint, and alleviate any eco guilt. Makes a great gift too!’

As Nigel points out ‘Starbucks hands out 50,000 paper cups a day! Although their paper cups are made from recycled material, they cannot be recycled again because of the wax coating that holds the fluid in the cup. This means that 18.25 million Starbucks’ paper cups are thrown away every year and end up on UK landfills.’

So, buy one of these cups and you’re not only saving the planet, but you can poke a bit of fun as your rat race colleagues when they come around to your house.

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