How Do You Fit in Holidays?

As the owner of a small business I simply don't know how to fit in a holiday. A week tomorrow I go away for the best part of a week and whilst I could really do with a break, I could also do with not having a break due to workload.

Last year I had a couple of long weekends away with mates but no summer holiday. This year I'm off up to the Lake District with my lovely wife to do some walking in Langdale. I love it, though Borrowdale is my favourite location, as there is excellent walking and, in my opinion, the best pub in the World (The Britannia Inn, Elterwater) about 100m from where we're staying. Phone reception is pretty non-existent until we get up a fell so there's not routine phone calls - but will I relax? Only time will tell.

It's going to be an extremely busy week to get as much done as possible before I go and an extremely busy week when I get back, especially as Matt is having his knee operation the day after we return as well.

So what have we been up to? Tons of work on the white-label project but not really getting any content off the clients so that's going to run late when I go on hol. We've got a nice design ready to go with some nice javascript bits for interactivity but at the moment it's just full of the standard Latin text for place-holders so can't go live.

Moseley Marketing Transport Planning site has been launched which is a very simple but responsive Wordpress site as requested by the client who will be filling in their own content. New outline designs were created for Marie Kilgallon Associates and Ashgrove B and B in Kircaldy on our test server. There were also some updates to our own site, which will continue, and Rock and Rollabilia's site.

A chunk of new clients were signed up over the last week or so including the Get Britain Cycling Magazine, Shonette Bason-Wood (who will be a star and is off on a speaking tour in South Africa very shortly), Cash4That plus new sites for expanding clients J&J Plant Hire. Work has started on all of these.

We're still also working on the Give It A Go site plus got some other irons in the fire for including some potentially large jobs. With meetings with newish clients from Epigem and Elite Serviced Apartments as well next week, that holiday is looking like a bad idea!