introduction. I have just started to read seth godin’s latest book ‘LINCHPIN Are you indispensable? How to drive your career and create a remarkable future’ and within a few paragraphs I am nodding, I am inspired and basically, hooked and I’m only on page one.  Godin is the international bestselling author of the popular Purple Cow, The Dip, All Marketers are Liars and Tribes (to name a few) which have changed the...

mr relish and I packed up our tent, a few boxes of relish and jumped in the car for an adventure to the Wollombi Valley market during the Queens Birthday long weekend. Located at the Wollombi saleyards in the heart of the historic colonial village of Wollombi, it takes just over an hour or so from Sydney (just before Cessnock in the Hunter Valley wine region). The market is held four times a year on the Monday of each long weekend and...

Apparently I’m a bootstrapper. An entrepreneur who is willing to invest all her life savings and time into a start up venture without any help from an external source of dosh. And on a shoestring budget. Well then, I guess I am. Mr relish covered the majority of our living costs for the first 12 months of building relish this, so my savings and time could be spent on building the business.  This was a great advantage, yet it was...

My new personal brand, biz blog is finally alive! It has been a long time coming and taken a fair amount of work to get it here, so I really hope you all enjoy reading it. I hope to follow through with my promise to post regularly and get myself back into our home kitchen to cook up some new things! To be honest, I have found it a little weird creating a personally named site, and one linked to the goings on in my business and personal...

As another year drew to a close back in 2008, I wrote a post reflecting on the previous 12 months and felt it important to re-post it now, mid way through 2010, to  reinforce just how beneficial it is to take time out to reflect and look at how far you’ve grown…. original post starts here. Of course amongst the delights were also the many challenges, but I’ve realised it’s the solving of these that created the...

When people hear of my strange relish making profession, first they look at me sideways to make sure I’m not joking, then proceed to ask “so how’d you come about making this then aye?”. I remember the first few people I told cracked up laughing and well, so did I. It is quite a conversation starter… and it really surprises me how genuinely interested people are in how I started ‘relish this’ and...

updated post. If you missed mr conroy discussing the internet censorship tonight, do not fear, you didn’t miss much.  What I would fear is how someone who came across as such a bumbling git is in charge of such a very big, very moral and very important issue as this one. Great questions and great points made by everyone else in the audience, on the panel and viewers via online Q&A – most of which were not answered or...

This post is really late. It’s early february and I’m only now managing to share our xmas dinner bonanza with you two months on.  Whoooops… better late than never tho right? Had to show this pic of “the chuffed chefs” haha, cracks me up…. “nice rack!!” So we conjured up the idea to have a good ole kiwi lamb on a spit for something a bit different for christmas dinner this last year....