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No, Travelodge, you can not wait until March

I am going on a business trip to the UK and have booked a room at the Travelodge – a budget hotel chain. Today I needed to change my check-out date. As I have booked the Flexible option I was able to change my booking up until 12 noon on the arrival day. Perfect.

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Swedes and their love for IKEA

Last Wednesday Swedish television station SVT aired the first of two programmes where they revealed the truth about IKEA and Ingvar Kamprad (text in Swedish) – their own words. After the show the comments on IKEA Sverige’s Facebook page started pouring in and the love Swedes have for its yellow and blue company was obvious [...]

Is gender equality an utopia?

In September the Swedes goes to vote.  A topic of interest for me is the discussion around the tax reduction for household services like cleaning and wether it is a good thing for women or not. One take on it is that it is good because it creates jobs, and especially in a business that [...]

Celebrating one year as business owner

I’ve been running my consultancy business for a bit over a year now and something like that requires a celebration, right? I wanted to celebrate in a way that wasn’t just fun but also made a difference.

I decided to support the work of Hand In Hand. Their aim is to eliminate poverty through enterprise [...]

Wasting time online?

Sometimes my husband asks me “What do you do all day?”. This question arises when we have talked about how many billable hours I’ve done during a day and he looks at the list of other things that I could have done, like lawn-moving or painting the new bedroom, if I didn’t work a full [...]