Hello all! I am back! Welcome to the "new normal" from me. It has been more than four months since I have last written a blog post of any kind, but I finally have the motivation to write about something again - and in this blog post, we are going back to books and authors! Let's get going on this little adventure, starting off with a run-through of the Ipswich Book Festival. Ipswich Book Festival (4th and 5th of October 2025) As is usual in my blog posts, I would like to start off by giving out some background information about the festival. So, the Ipswich Book Festival was a new book convention that was run to gather together authors, academics and readers and share their experiences about poetry, prose fiction and the more mundane matters that were happening in between. The Ipswich Book Festival ran in a number of different locations across Ipswich from the 3rd to the 5th of October. Nearly all of the events were ticketed, with the price to attend many events ranging ...
Hello, wannabe business owners! Welcome back as we continue the journey through the Business Start-up Bootcamp at the University of Suffolk. From digging into the depths of a social enterprise supporting women, to the most intensive marketing exercise that I have ever managed to attempt to date, this blog post will surely pack a punch more than all of the other writeups that I've managed to do so far! If you haven't yet read my story on the first three days of this amazing event, please check it out here: Days 1 to 3 Day 4: Diving into the world of social enterprises It was almost 9:30am when I arrived into the Atrium building, waiting to go in to the Bootcamp session. Random chatter and more participants turning up along the way, and we're off on the journey, and after going through the introductions to our business ideas, the session started off by explaining the basic social entrepreneurship principles, before going on to do an interactive exercise where we had to guess...