This post is based on an article I wrote for the 2022 Q3 edition of the Institute of Water magazine My story I was inspired to write this article by the quote, attributed by some to Jane Austen: “It’s never too late to be what you could have been”. This might seem strange given that […]
Four Essential Tips for Entrepreneurs
This is a guest article by Katie Connolly of Advice Mine, a company specialising in helping you grow and develop in your personal and professional life. Never Give Up Many new entrepreneurs worry about failing. That’s a big fat WRONG. If you haven’t failed at something, there’s a good chance you’ve never tried it. Facing […]
My Raspberry Pi – The gift that keeps giving
Back in September 2018 I introduced a post about a recently purchased Raspberry Pi 3 (RP3) with the phrase: “Reading the post you will see why I value a device that cost less than thirty pounds, that at various points caused me to pull my hair out, but yet I wouldn’t want to be without“. […]
Small Business Funding
Competing in a competitive world means having the right tools, techniques, and interpersonal skills. Windmill Insight Solutions can help get you there! Contact Bob Windmill today! +44 7554 994855 Photo provided by Pexels The Art of Launching a Small Business and Getting It Funded If you’ve been thinking about starting a business for a while […]
Water: How Should we value it?
A clue: It’s more than just counting the money This post is based on an article I wrote for the Q3 edition of the Institute of Water magazine The ideal There is increasing awareness that clean drinking water and good sanitation has a far greater value than the simple economic returns it offers to water […]
Guest Article – Great Investments for Small Businesses
Photo by Pexels Running a small business can be difficult financially, as there is often less capital to play with when you’re looking to grow. Being smart with your money and investing it where it counts is crucial for these smaller enterprises as the safety net is smaller with less room for error. Knowing which […]
Title: Are your people technical enough?
This post is based on an article I wrote for the 2021 Q1 edition of the Institute of Water magazine When I was doing my A levels, Chemistry, Physics and Pure Maths, I had to know and be able to answer questions about electronic orbitals configurations and the order they were filled in, the equations […]
Building the great future that you want
It’s the gift that keeps giving Organisations need high-performing employees and high performing employees want satisfying jobs. In this piece I will discuss how what I learned from racing superbikes can help both get what they want. My early career with Anglian Water was not great, my youthful self-confidence running into organisational inertia and coming […]
Disinfection: Improving the odds
Abstract As operational scientists the authors know well from experience that apparently well-run treatment works can have the occasional coliform failure but all the resamples are compliant. This paper explores why, in the authors’ opinion, this is a consequence of the underpinning disinfection kinetics and two major operational factors, pH and actual retention times. In […]
TEE-Shaped Learning – The gift that keeps giving
This post is based on an article I wrote for the Q3 edition of the Institute of Water magazine Background Over the last ten years I’ve done a fair bit of interim management, doing nominally full-time roles on a three-day a week contract. And, yes, I had days off, worked on other projects and had […]