We have moved! September 3, 2010 No Comments
Something spectacularly important has happened to redsauce.com: our blog, for one day only, will actually contain information about our beloved company!! That’s right, for today you can be free of adventuring raisins, husband’s beards and cheese pie. We have moved office and I’m going to tell you all about it.
So aside from Milton creating a new word (“Something’ll”) in his previous blog, moving is perhaps the most ground-breaking occurrence on our calendar to date. It took blood, sweat and tears to lug a mountain of desks, two trellises, a pot plant called Jazzy Jeff, a Johnny Cash-singing dragon, a plastic egg with nothing in it, a farting gnome, two Slinkys, a tamborine, copious dismembered computers and more plastic tomatoes than are logically conceivable…across the road. We are located on the other side of the roundabout, looking back at the office we spent so many of our days in, as if stuck in perpetual nostalgia….ah, those were the days…
But there’s no looking back when the future is so bright! It’s all go in our new crib, with the excitement of moving mingling with the potent wafts of fresh paint – it’s a heady concoction. Everyone is feeling the buzz and moving office is perhaps the most effective form of team building there is (cheapskate managers take note). It’s such a great time as not only are we moving into a new office and embracing a new phase of our company’s journey but we’re physically helping to build our new work place. C’mon guys, time for a group hug…
Noteworthy news September 2, 2010 No Comments
My big sister just won a massive grant from a funding organisation to travel abroad and research local food and culture with the ultimate aim of writing a cookery book.
I’m dead jealous but also happy that something she’s been working towards for the past few months has actually proved fruitful (plus she may share her earnings with me if all things go well so I must not flagrantly exhibit my envy). Read the rest of this entry »
Is blogging really worth the hassle? September 1, 2010 No Comments
So you’ve decided to try to up your visitor numbers by setting up a blog and posting religiously everyday but things haven’t gone to plan.
Although your visitor numbers have slightly increased, you find yourself “wasting” hours of your time writing, in your own opinion, a load of garbage! You’ve exhausted all your content ideas and now you’re just babbling on about nothing in particular. Uninspired, you feel like giving up…
Stop right there! Giving up now is the worst thing you can do! You need to go back to basics and fall back in love with blogging all over again! Remember why you were writing the blog in the first place – to display facts, information, offers and news content to your visitors. Read the rest of this entry »
Something’ll never change but others really should August 31, 2010 No Comments
We’re moving this week, tomorrow to be precise. But what does this mean for RedSauce.com? Well, let me speculate.
A move can mean lots of things, can’t it? It can mean things are going to radically change, that new people are going to be hired and that our jobs are going to drastically adapt.
But let me tell you something: it’s been a long time coming but a change is gonna come. So you have to just accept it.
Who moved my cheese pie? August 30, 2010 No Comments
Ah, Javaria. Our resident lovely Yorkshire lass who seems surprised, horrified and thrilled by anything new, especially oatcakes. Surprisingly feisty and vicious when provoked, Javaria has no fear in standing up to her so-called superiors, particularly when it’s regarding her coat.
One of the most competent writers of the team (well, compared to Selena, anyway), Javaria has an amazing talent for flowery and a plethora of delicately eloquent and sumptuous language – this isn’t just content, this is Javaria’s content.
MySpace nostalgia – it’s so 2008 August 29, 2010 No Comments
If you’re anything like Tom, you’ll be in the cohort that mourned the death of MySpace while secretly being happy that you have yet another reason to be miserable.
Okay, so MySpace isn’t exactly dead, but in the world of social media it hasn’t upped its game enough to keep pace with Facebook and Twitter. It takes me back to the heady summer of 2004 when teenagers like Tom spent their evenings locked in their bedrooms, applying their older sister’s make up, brushing their hair into their faces and staring up into their camera phones. It was a narcissists dream. That is, until Facebook took the very essence of looking at yours and other people’s faces and made it a priority.
Cheese pie and its content August 27, 2010 No Comments
It might astound you to know that of the redsauce clan, only three people have sampled the wonder that is a cheese pie.
The office was ablaze with questions when Javaria announced her lunchtime intentions of cheese pie. I stared at her with wide, innocent eyes and implored her to describe this “chee-se pi-e” of which she spoke. Sadly, her thick NAAAARRRRTHEEEERRRRNNN accent made this an impossible code to crack. I was none the wiser upon turning up at our local B-list celebrity themed cafe. My heart leapt when I saw ‘Cheese and onion pie’ scrawled on across the specials chalk board and I ordered it without hesitation.
Work-out writings August 26, 2010 No Comments
I may head to the local gym tonight for a quick tour of the premises because I’m hoping to join up.
I started going to the gym when I was 18 to try and shed some excess pounds. My mother used to come along and walk on the treadmill positioned behind the exercise bike that I was using. Unbeknownst to me she was secretly praying that my bottom would shrink to a manageable size while she quietly sweated away muttering to herself in a giant t-shirt and trainers from God knows where (I have made her sound crazy but she isn’t). Read the rest of this entry »
Could an iPad newspaper really be the next step? August 25, 2010 No Comments
Rumours are rife this week that king of the newspapers Rupert Murdoch is busy designing a newspaper exclusively for iPad users.
A report from the illustrious Los Angeles Times states that the digital newspaper would feature short, bitesize stories which would initially be written by staff at Murdoch’s New York Post and Dow Jones. If the venture proves successful, it’s believed News Corp would take on more staff to cope with growing demand. Read the rest of this entry »
Top 5 blogging mistakes to avoid August 24, 2010 No Comments
Here at redsauce.com, we love blogging! It’s one of our daily activities and it’s something which we like to think we’ve become… well pretty good at over the years!
That’s not to say we’re perfect though… we all make mistakes from time to time (some of us more regularly than others!) and sometimes it’s worth re-assessing your writing to see if it’s really packing the punch you intended. Sometimes the mistakes can be quite sneaky and hard to spot and can often take another pair of eyes to track them down – that’s why we often help to proof-read one another’s blogs to check for errors on spellings and grammar.
The redsauce.com content team have kindly put their heads together to come up with a list of 5 mistakes which should always be avoided if you want to be the seasoned blogger you know you can be! Read the rest of this entry »
