Welcome to The Circular magazine. We would like to take this opportunity to wish both our readers and Advertisers a Very Prosperous New Year, from all the team here at The Circular magazine.
This January As ever we have lots of content for you, from Chris Batten CEO of Ipatter giving a few tips on making the most of social media, Work, Rest & Play, Travel advice by Mark Brosche and much more. Don’t forget about our puzzle page too, with the chance to win an engraved diamond paper weight courtesy …

Prepare, Plan & Prepare
January can be a dark month in business. Retail clients are feeling the credit squeeze from the festivities, and business is slow to restart after holidays, so what do you do with the those spare hours you are not used to having? How about that old business entertainment – planning?
In our partnership we remind our clients of Henry Ford’s statement: “Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success”. If you find yourself with some precious slow time in your business, I recommend you fill it …

The weather is freezing but at least the sun is shining as I write this article, and with the New Year, the housing market gets going. This is a great time of year to get moving. It seems over the years the spring is the busiest time of year for any estate agent. It must be all the ‘reflection’ and re-organising that takes place over Christmas. Anyway, moving house often becomes the latest project for many at this time, therefore demand will increase and so bring with it, supply. To …

He wasn’t the first person to think about “Model Villages” though, as they had been started by such local people as Walpole at Houghton and Coke of Holkham. Many estates had already repositioned their villages away from the big house and, in so doing, had built more picturesque and better houses for their workers. Houghton estate was re-modeled from the 1720’s and this involved the demolition of the village and new cottages being built on the approach road from Harpley. Holkham was similarly landscaped and new cottages for the estate …

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