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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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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 •
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I’ve been thinking lately about how I can make my office even more of a comfortable and healthy place to work. As luck would have it I was watching the Gadget Show on Channel 5 on Monday. They have a regular group test. This week was garden gadgets.
One gadget that caught my eye was the Aerogarden as I have been thinking that perhaps more plant life in my office would be a good idea. The Aerogarden seems to solve a number of problems in one very hi-tech piece of kit.
Completely self-contained the unit was developed in association with NASA. It’s basically a hydroponics garden. You decide what plants you want to grow from exotic flowers to specialised fruit and vegetables. The problem I’ll have it finding the space to locate the Aerogarden in my office. Still working on that one at the moment.
If you have any recommendations for good plants for home offices post them here. The view from my office window is very green, but I think I need to bring some of that green into my actual working space.
Comment by lorraine on 17 June 2008:
Hello! I work at AeroGrow (yes, Boulder, Colorado, USA) and just found your blog. Two resources full of information and friendly people for all questions and communication AeroGarden (including plant recommendations) are:
http://www.aerogrow.com/community/home/customercare.php
and
http://www.aerogardengrowers.com
My favorite things to grow in my own AeroGarden on my desk at work are FLOWERS, they brighten up my whole cubicle. I like dwarf marigolds, phlox and trailing lobelia in the front, grown in the Master Gardener Kit with my own seeds.
Best wishes,
Lorraine