Hannah Louise Swift

This time one month ago, I was almost home – having got in the car jam packed with all my belongings that hadn’t already been moved. A tearful goodbye to some dear friends and a slow drive and my life was just about to take a dramatic turn. Not only leaving a secure income, good friends and a lovely house, but I was suddenly about to embark on living not just with people again, but my parents, no job, no income and few friends left in the area.

A month on and I haven’t looked back!!!

Things are going really well with the business, old friends are peeping out of the woodwork and I have been up and down the country so much I’m yet to really annoy the parents! Fabulous!

Here is to the next few months!

Hannah x

If you haven’t heard by now then here is the news;

- I left Existem AM after 3 years
- I moved back in with my parents to Derbyshire
- I turned 26

Most importantly…

- I launched my very own business!

Bright Digital Minds launched on Tuesday 6th September 2011 after lot’s of late nights and long days with the lovely site designer Zak. Set up to help all the small to medium businesses out there manage their social media and blogs, something that should be done, but is quite often shoved to the bottom of the list due to time and resource constraints.
Specialising in training and consultancy along with hands on management, Bright Digital Minds offer a cost-effective outsourced solution to help grow your brand and increase your brand advocates online.

Official blurb over, I am loving being my own boss! I can spend time with my lovely nephew without having to be on a lunch break, I can nip out to the shop to get a paper and best of all – I can wake up at 9am and not worry!

Watch this space, I’ll be bringing you all updates as things move along! If you have any questions or comments, please get in touch!

x

Well, it is isn’t it. Who would have thought that a volcano obsessed skinny teenager would have been on amazing trips to various countries, would have left her ‘career’ in Geology and would now be working in online marketing. Madness. I always swore blind i’d never do anything but chase volcanoes making amazing docmentaries, saving lives – heroic David Attenborough stuff – that was what I was destined for. A few ‘wrong’ choices here and there and what can I say – here I am.

So, I’m now 25, moving speedily towards 26 and I’m the owner of 1.5 cats (see previous posts for more on that). I live exactly 273 miles away from home and it seems like all of my nearest and dearest are getting married or popping out babies (or both)! Me I’m still trundling along in my singledom waiting for my Prince Charming – as I think most girls do to a certain extent! Damn you Disney!

And so – the reason for my blog post, the thing some of you may have guessed by now. I’m leaving EAM, leaving Plymouth and heading home! That’s right campers! After almost 3 years here – I decided that it was time for me to pack up my troubles in my old kit bag, and run off back to Mummy and Daddy Swift. Since I moved here I became an Auntie and have missed the first few years of many of my closest friends, childrens lives. I have missed weddings and divorces, illnesses and most of all my family.

I’m doing something that to be honest I have been quite snobbish about in the past. I said I would never move home, never go back to the small town I grew up in, but at least for the time being, that’s where I’ll be. Luckily/Unluckily for me, I had a car crash earlier this year which meant i had some cash hanging around, it also made me reconsider life. Although the crash was by no means bad, it was enough to shake me.

Work you might ask? As gutted as I am to be leaving EAM, after 3 years, it’d be hard not to be a little upset – let’s face it. I have to go! So I’m being brave/stupid and moving without any work to go to. I have a little cash set aside to pay my way, and hopefully my lovely parents will not charge me too much in rent! (I know you read this Dad, so take the hint )

All I will say for now is;

- Thanks for reading
- Keep in touch
- Watch this space!

Hannah xxx

I have finally been in possession of one of these smart type phones for little over a week and whilst I dread my next phone bill, I have had lot’s of fun playing with it and downloading all the fun apps. So here is a quick run down of my favourite ones so far;

Let’s start with the usual suspects;
Gmail
Email
Twitter
Facebook
Google+
eBay

Now to the less obvious…
iGeology
Volcano Report
Scuba Exam Lite
Earthquake!
Speak It
Bajan Lingo
Urban Dictionary
New Scientist
QR Droid
SCUBA Log
Science Facts
Caribbean Foods
Mixology

I am a total science/scuba geek!

I would give you a link to them all – but that is far too easy! So go, scoot, find the pretties!

Over and out

xxx

p.s – I have only had this phone for a small amount of time – so all recommendations are welcome!

Sometimes a weekend will come along that will stand out in memory for a long time to come. This weekend just gone by was exactly that. (Granted some of it is a little fuzzy – more on that later)
When an invite popped up on my facebook to a ‘Sausage and Cider Festival‘ I didn’t even check the date in case I was busy – instant ‘I’m in!’  The Clovelly Bay Inn was holding this amazing event!

There were – 4 types of mash, beans or green beans, 3 types of gravy and SEVEN TYPES OF SAUSAGE!!! Never mind the extensive selection of over 21 ciders!

Cider List
Brimblecombe Rum Conditioned 10.0% A.B.V.
Brimblecombe 2004 Vintage 10.0%
Countryman Gold 7.0%
Green Valley Strong Traditional Medium 6.8%
Brimblecombe Blackcurrant 6.5%
Brimblecombe Medium Farmhouse 6.5%
Brimblecombe Dry Farmhouse 6.5%
Countryman Medium 6.5%
Countryman Dry 6.5%
Grays Sweet 6.5%
Grays Medium 6.5%
Grays Dry 6.5%
Grays Sweet 6.5%
Grays Medium 6.5%
Grays Dry 6.5%
Hunts Sweet 6.0%
Hunts Medium 6.0%
Hunts Dry 6.0%
Green Valley Traditional Sweet 5.5%
Green Valley Traditional Medium 5.5%
Green Valley Traditional Dry 5.5%
Cornish Orchards Medium 4.5%
Skinners Press Gang 4.5%
Winkleigh Devon Cider 4.5%
Green Valley Strawberry 4.0%
Gernit Sniffler Mary Tavy %?

Sausage List
Spicy Spanish
Black Pudding & Bacon
Honey Roast
Butchers Banger
Beer & Beef
Pork Cider
Vegetarian
Plus a few secret varieties

What can I say – I was more than slightly tiddled after a few ciders, and then spent the weekend craving more sausages! I’m off to find the local butcher who supplied the sausages – Moostone Farm in Wembury to order a box of meat from them! Can life get any better than a box of meat turning up on your door – no, I thought not!

Big thanks to Terri, Martyn, Dean, Paula, Tom, Tracey and Richard for making the day so ‘eventful’ and just brilliant!