When I started to write this blog about 15 years ago, Marie was the editor. We really had no idea of what we were doing, Marie or I, but we just started, and we did it, and we got going, and it worked out pretty well.
It was on an old-fashioned digital dictation machine with an SD card (They were really, really fancy at that stage), and Marie would put the blog out, edit it, question it, get the photographs ready, sometimes she wouldn't even publish it if she thought it was too close to the bone.
As Marie’s job moved on and moved up, Hayley took over the blog (that was Hayley Fox, not Hayley Brown), and for years she edited the blog.
Hayley was dyslexic, but it didn't matter; sometimes there would be mistakes in the blog, but there would have been mistakes if I did it. One or two people complained about the mistakes, particularly someone who worked here, and it made me smile and laugh. I told them the story about why some of the mistakes might have been happening, and they didn't complain for much longer.
Each of the people who have edited the blog have put a particular stamp on it, made it different in a different way, made it better than it would ever be without them.
For the longest time, though, Millie Somerfield has edited the blog for about 4 years or more.
Millie came to us straight from school as a 19-year-old, decided not to go to university, and came to work. She was the second person to do the degree apprenticeship in digital marketing, qualifying with a 2:1 and smashing it.
She's become a fantastic and valuable member of the crew here with a great area of expertise, a wonderful creative eye, and of course, a brilliant ability to edit the blog, not just to edit the text and produce brilliant images for the blog and to back reference blogs I talk about, but also to keep me right and actually publish it and get it going.
Millie has decided to move on to bigger and better things, and we are delighted to see her thrive and grow.
“We exist to positively influence the lives of as many people as possible through the work that we do and the example we set”, and Millie epitomises that.
I think that we have had the opportunity to positively influence Millie and to make her life a little bit better, and she has definitely had the opportunity to do that back for us.
I am really sad that this is the last blog that Millie will type. It would be so easy for me if she would just continue, but I would never ever want to hold anyone back from chasing their dreams or going to a bigger and better place.
We'll see you later, Millie. It's not goodbye, obviously, it's just “see you later” and “see you around”.
Can't wait to see what you do and when you go to places that the rest of us can only dream about.
Good luck.
Blog Post Number - 4267
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