Hi, I’m Nic.
This is my personal blog. It got its name back in the late Noughties, inspired by Costa Coffee (my employer at the time) launching their “saving the world from mediocre coffee” campaign. It’s a jibe at myself: just like the world didn’t need saving from mediocre coffee (because that’s subjective), you may well find my opinions mediocre.
My aunt Karen was a business coach and former NHS Chief Executive. She’s the reason I think the way I do about most things. She saw something in me before I did, and spent years shaping it — how to lead, how to make decisions, how to move without waiting for permission. Her brand was “Ideas Into Action,” and she meant it. She had no time for overthinking and even less for inaction.
The thing she said that I come back to most: “have a plan, and hold it lightly.” That’s this blog. I’ve got opinions. I think they’re right, or I wouldn’t write them down. But I’m holding them lightly, and if I change my mind, I’ll tell you.
This is where I park personal projects, my well thought through theories on how I’d run the world better, and things I’ve wondered about enough to go and research. Plus photos, when I take them.
Elsewhere I host What Changed You?, an audio version of people watching, and produce dinnerlads, a watch-back podcast devoted to Victoria Wood’s dinnerladies. I’m a 90s sitcom connoisseur.
Off-screen: my husband Tim and our Labrador Max.
Day job: Marketing Director at HCRG Care Group.