Month: June 2017

Thanks to internet access and businesses beginning to appreciate the advantages of flexibility, more and more people are using their own home as their workplace. The most recent Office for National Statistics figures are from 2015 and show that nearly one in seven (13.7%) Brits now work from home. Those confined to a remote office […]

As we all have work, family and social commitments, the amount of time dog owners are able to spend with their beloved pooches is not always as much as they would like. If this sounds like a position you find yourself in, have you considered taking your dog to work? Today is Bring Your Dog […]

Even the most proficient writers have the occasional word they just can’t remember how to put together. Perhaps you’re always tempted to put an ‘a’ somewhere in the word ‘sentence’, or maybe you find yourself reciting ‘I before E, except after C’ to yourself before wrongly spelling words like ‘weird’, ‘weight’ and ‘leisure’. The state […]

Despite being the largest country on the planet, as well as one of the most powerful, most of us know little about Russia and particularly its language. While we may remember some French, German or Spanish from school, Russian, with its 33-character Cyrillic alphabet, is a lot more alien to the majority of Brits. This […]