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Post-Bootcamp adventures - Federation of Small Businesses redux

Oh man... it has been such a long time since I have last made a post on this blog - I have been getting myself really busy lately with regards to having that portfolio finished for those fantasy maps and getting the business registered!  But here we are... I am back, and in this post I am going to present to you my first-hand experience of going to the Federation of Small Businesses networking event that took place on Valentines' Day, the 14th of February 2024.  It has been a long while since I have gone to an FSB networking event (if you haven't read about how my last experience went, go and check out the post of mine on my blog), and this event has so many fascinating tidbits to the point that you certainly don't want to miss out on reading this post! Run-through of the event experience It was 9:15am and I was waiting outside the Atrium building to go in for the networking event. To be honest, I actually had no need to wait, as I managed to persuade a member of the Estat
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Post-Bootcamp Adventures - Run-up to the end of 2023

Well, here we are then - the year of 2023 has come to an end with so many amazing things being achieved in relation to my business idea - starting off the year by being introduced to the Volkert and making a start on my journey to building a fantasy mapping business, going to the Make a Difference Boot Camp, creating my first maps, and putting together a business plan!  To celebrate the end of the year, I would like to provide a summary of the enterprise-related events that I have been to at the University of Suffolk, and elsewhere in the run-up to the Christmas break. Trust me, there are many exciting things that I have to show you this time round! Simon Barrington's Leadership Lecture - 24th November 2023 Originally, I was not going to blog about this experience in anticipation that the content would be too similar to what I was shown in the original running of his session on the 30th of June, but as you will encounter in this excerpt, the organisation of the lecture were slightl

Random Fantasy Maps #4 - Town of Frattisham

Hello and welcome back to the Random Fantasy Maps series, where we will be exploring fantasy map creation from different eras. In this post, I am going to be exploring the process of creating the small town of Frattisham, from which the design is inspired from one of the 25-inch Ordnance Survey 19th century maps.  While this map isn't exactly going to be 25 inches in size due to the constraints that are associated with drawing in an A3 sketchbook, I hope you will find this tutorial useful for producing a historical map in any case! What is the town of Frattisham? Please note that this section was written from a late-19th to early 20th century perspective, so that it is in line with the dates that the old Ordnance Survey maps were published in. Frattisham is a village that has a population of 674 people as of the 1881 census. It was founded in 1763, with the castle being built not long after in 1778, and would subsequently be used as a strategic vantage point in the Battle of Fratti