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My father passed away last week. The man who taught me the value of images and words.A master of the visual image and bo...
14/06/2026

My father passed away last week.
The man who taught me the value of images and words.

A master of the visual image and born storyteller, he was the source of my creativity. He taught me about photography and literature, about politics and humanity, about philosophy and nature. He gave me the gift of growing up on boats and the ocean.

I am my father's daughter...
And without him, a little piece of me is lost.
Bear with me for a little while as I navigate my return to a world that turns so fast when it should have stopped.

FYI....
29/05/2026

FYI....

22/05/2026

By ten I have been two people

the accommodation, still:
wake to birdsong, to the smell of the garden

the bar, loud:
pull up a stool, the kitchen's open late.

By noon I have been four.

A voice is a room you furnish for someone else.
You learn where they keep their warmth.
You learn what they would never say.
Then you leave it lit, and walk to the next.

At the end of the day I close the laptop
and go looking for my own voice.
It does not arrive in a brief.

It is every season at once, layered,
none of them underneath,
generous and tired and still,
after all of them, mine.

"It's cheaper to do it myself."It's the most common reason small business owners put off handing over their tech setup. ...
21/05/2026

"It's cheaper to do it myself."

It's the most common reason small business owners put off handing over their tech setup. And it's usually wrong.

Doing it yourself isn't free. It costs you the weekends you don't have, the headspace you can't spare, and a setup that limps along half-finished because you ran out of time before you ran out of to-do list.

I cost more on paper. In practice, a few hours of me beats forty hours of you stuck on a platform you were never meant to be an expert in. You're brilliant at your business. The tools that run it were never your job.

12/05/2026

There is no race.
Nobody handed out a starting whistle. The finish line you're squinting at was drawn by someone else, for a different business, on a different day.

Your business runs on your hours, your energy, your life. The work that's right for you is the work you can actually sustain.

Three posts a week and meaning it beats seven and burning out.

Slow down.

Stop chasing your next thousand followers when the last thousand haven't converted.Social media is an entertainment plat...
29/04/2026

Stop chasing your next thousand followers when the last thousand haven't converted.
Social media is an entertainment platform. It has always been an entertainment platform. And if you create entertaining content, you will get entertaining content results — views, likes, comments, shares, maybe a few new followers.

But "vanity" metrics and ROI are not the same thing.

I know this firsthand. Last year I posted something vulnerable and honest about almost closing Croft Creative. It performed better than almost anything I've posted. Lots of comments. Lots of support. A handful of nibbles from people who were already following me closely anyway.
It felt like success. It wasn't really.

A post that gets 10,000 views isn't necessarily a post that gets you customers. Likes come from people who felt something. Sales come from people who wanted something. Those are not always the same person.
Before you call a post a win, know what you were actually trying to win.

11/04/2026

Take photos of the work. Make videos of the process. Get someone to photograph you actually doing the thing.

Not because the algorithm needs feeding, but because two years from now you'll want to remember what your business looked like when it was just getting started.

Content has a shelf life. Memories don't.

Facebook isn't dead. It's just not cool, and people confuse the two.And honestly? I get it. Most business pages get set ...
10/04/2026

Facebook isn't dead. It's just not cool, and people confuse the two.
And honestly? I get it. Most business pages get set up, look great for about a week, and then quietly gather dust while everyone pours energy into Instagram.

But the data tells a different story. Facebook is outperforming Instagram on engagement, and for a lot of small businesses, it's outperforming it on actual results too. It's worth a second look.

Drop a "hi, its me" ✋ in the comments if your page has been on set and forget for longer than you'd like to admit?!

07/04/2026

Same energy. Different everything.

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