Soup of the Day

Soup of the day lull

Well you may have noticed that Soup of the Day is currently experiencing a small lull in regular postings. This seems to be a general lull across all web based projects I am involved in or quietly watch from afar. However silence on this blog means that lots and lots is going on behind the scenes and most of which I can’t talk about quite yet.

Polaris Digital as a limited company has completed its first year and is still alive, which I am extremely proud of. There have been good and bad times, but this is a massive learning process for me and each little mistake ensures that I know much more about how business works and how to manage work and life effectively. The biggest thing going on with Polaris Digital at the moment that is unclassified is our new web site, which is getting ever so close to launch. In the mean time a new holding page is going to replace the main site from next week.

The main picture of this post was taken two weeks ago when a whole load of us got together for my sisters send off to London, where she is now working for ITV. For those of you who have lived there or are now will know what an exciting and daunting prospect this is for a young person, but Jo seem’s to be getting her teeth into London and enjoying life in the big smoke. Meanwhile back in Manchester, Siân and I are approaching the second anniversary of being in the UK’s “Second City” this July. Life if certainly different than it was when we first got here, we have made a lot of friends and now can generally go out and meet someone we know on all occasions, which is nice.

On a completly different, but related subject, can I send a massive congratulations out to our friend Sophie (Soaf to her friends, in the middle of the top picture) who has become the new face of Bradford & Bingley in the UK. She flew out to South Africa in January to shoot the 30 second spot for TV, before being photographed endlessly for all their print and electronic media. You can see the Bradford & Bingley spot on TV now, as well as online and in Bradford & Bingley building societies.

We have lots planned this summer and Polaris Digital is now looking forward to 2008 and growing the business into a sustainable entity both commercially and environmentally. Personally, if by April 2008 I had two employee’s and six months of work on the books, I would be happy. Until then, its a lot of elbow grease and knuckling down for me. But I will make a concerted effort to keep this blog alive!

Honest guv!