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Barefoot Book Conference

I have just returned from the Barefoot book conference. What a wonderful time we had. Thursday night nibbles and chat in the Barefoot book office . Friday conference and evening BBQ in the Royal crescent Hotel in Bath – splendid – lots of fellowship and food. It was great to meet Nancy and Tessa who [...]

July 11th, 2010 | lyn.blackledge | 0 comments | Continued
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A day in the Garden

What a busy day
I spent 7 hours in the garden! A mammoth gardening session indeed!! We will have lots of lovely tubs and pots through the summerso the hard work will be well worth it. I am delighted with the new Usborne spotters guide Garden Flowers and although it is a children’s book, it is [...]

May 17th, 2009 | lyn.blackledge | 0 comments | Continued
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Usborne Travel Incentive to Hong Kong

Usborne travel incentive announced
Wow what a great leadership training meeting Usborne ran yesterday!! Great meeting in the morning then the travel incentive was announced after lunch followed by a brilliant talk by Mark Rhodes (NLP speaker) rhodes2success It was such a red hot talk that the fire alarm went off!!!!!! We had to evacuate and [...]

April 29th, 2009 | lyn.blackledge | 2 comments | Continued
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Usborne books at Compton Farm

Steam up at Compton Farm
Alyson and I have spent a lovely day selling our scrummy Usborne books at Compton Farm.  What a life. Sitting in the sun displaying our lovely books to all the visiting families I know of ar worse ways to earn a living.. I sooooooo love my job!! We watched the ploughing [...]

April 14th, 2009 | lyn.blackledge | 0 comments | Continued
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Usborne Travel Incentive – Trip to Miami and Mexico

43 Usborne organisers are off on their travels.
There is a lot of excitement amongst Usborne organisers as 43 of us prepare to jet off on a fabulous holiday cruising from Miami to Mexico via Key West Florida.
How many other companies thank their sales team like this? Although we are all independent organisers, (sole traders)  we [...]

February 15th, 2009 | lyn.blackledge | 2 comments | Continued
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Here I am with Gary, one of my newest Usborne recruits

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One of my latest Usborne Book recruits.
Gary, one of my newest Usborne  team members decided to join us for the  Usborne Gala and conference and he had a great time! Which man wouldn’t, surrounded by over 200 women. He just felt the 7 men in attendance was 6 too many!!!!

January 22nd, 2009 | lyn.blackledge | 0 comments | Continued
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Just had a lie-in!! How many jobs let you do that? Usborne does!!

I really, really love my job. How many people can actually say that these days? I decide when and where I work and who I want to work with. This morning I have had a lie in and now i am up and refreshed and ready to go!!! Just deciding which part of the [...]

January 19th, 2009 | lyn.blackledge | 0 comments | Continued
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My goodness!

Oh dear, I haven’t blogged since 22nd September that’s nearly 2 weeks. A lot has happened and I have been very, very busy!
I have been to Basingstoke for one of Val’s brilliant Usborne training days. I went with Angela and Claire. Then I went to a networking evening at the Lakeside restautant which has recently [...]

October 4th, 2008 | lyn.blackledge | 4 comments | Continued
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A working weekend! No rest for the wicked!!

Don’t get me wrong, I really love my job as an Usborne book representative and I have a lot of fun and this weekend was no different. On Saturday afternoon, I went with Claire (in Nikki’s team) down to the Ice rink. We set up stall at the rink side during the Wight Raiders versus [...]

September 22nd, 2008 | lyn.blackledge | 0 comments | Continued
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Who would have thought it?? it was a glorious day!!

Angela and I spent a wondeful day selling our beautiful Usborne books at Arreton Manor for Ladies day. It was a lovely event set in the beautiful grounds of the manor house – the sun shone and the people came and the wind and rain were nowhere to be seen.
We sold lots of our farmyard [...]

September 13th, 2008 | lyn.blackledge | 0 comments | Continued