How do I fill my days?

I was struggling to think of something that might be of interest to all you kind people who read this blog so today I'm going to just elaborate on what my business model or models are so you understand what I do and you can see if there's anything I can do to help you.



Textiles
As you'll know having read my previous blogs I am anything to do with textiles, from polymer through to finished article. I work mainly in the technical textile sectors in the military and sports areas, however I have been known to work in other areas such as food, healthcare, civil engineering, automotive, aerospace. In fact I'll work in any area that wants help.
My services in the textile industry include -

• Consultancy
• Direct sales, yarns and fabrics
• Sourcing and referrals
• Development
• Business Management Techniques
• Lean manufacturing 
• Quality
• Planning
• Purchasing
• Negotiation
• Auditing (internal and external)

But what else do I do to fill my days?

Computers
Something I've always played with ever since I first used an old Amstrad 1520 MSDOS based machine to type my thesis for college, none of this fancy windows 8 stuff, if you wanted to access a program it was c:\bla\bla\bla.exe or something similar and hopefully it would get you there. In
fact before that one of my brothers had the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, do you remember? Plug it in to the tele, spend hours typing in code and then you could play very eliminatory space invaders, great fun...
And so it started and I've progressed through all the different windows releases and several Mac ones.
This side of the business was always meant to be very small and really just to fill time if I need to. However it's steadily growing and most weeks I have two or three jobs on.
I help people understand their system, set it up for them, show them how various programs like Skype and Email work and fix problems where I can.
My services include -

• Lessons (one to one at your home or office) 
• Basic operations - navigation, shortcuts, email, skype, internet
• MS Office including Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Access
• Security
• Repairs, backups, health checks.
• Home networks.
• New installation setup.

So, to all those people who keep asking me what I do, that's it.... Oh apart from lots of cycling, swimming, a bit of photography, gardening, and enjoying some fine West Country real ales... Cheers for now.