Desk bikes – the Tour de Your House

Posted on 2 Oct 2017 by Laura Ripper — 6 Comments

Last Wednesday was National Fitness Day in the UK. Keeping fit’s a doddle if you work from home, isn’t it? You start the day with yoga. Go swimming at lunchtime. On sunny days you put down your pen (or keyboard)…

10 things I learned from the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading conference 2017

Posted on 25 Sep 2017 by Laura Ripper — 5 Comments

Earlier in September I drove exactly 150 miles to join approximately 150 other professionals for the Society of Editors and Proofreaders (now Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading [CIEP]) conference near Cambridge. The theme was Context is key: why the…