Five very simple words. Five words that we’ve all used when a co-worker or family member returns from holiday. Whether we’ve been genuinely interested in their time away or not! “Nice”, “Lovely” and “relaxing” are all words that I’ve found myself using before when returning from travels. Shortly followed by, “it’s great to be back in my own bed” and “I’ve … Read More
Beach Hut Life: My January (2018) RoundUp
Hey, fellow hutters! Hope you are having a fab Saturday morning? Grab that cuppa and dive into the latest in our beach hut world! Beach Hut Life: My January (2018) RoundUp What’s Been Going on At Millie’s Beach Huts: We welcomed our 30th Millie’s Beach Hut Club Member – just last week, we welcomed our 30th member to Millie’s Beach … Read More
Beach Hut Life: My December (2017) RoundUp
Hey, fellow hutters! Hope you are having a fab Saturday morning? Grab that cuppa and dive into the latest in our beach hut world! Beach Hut Life: My December (2017) RoundUp What’s Been Going On At Millie’s Beach Huts: Gift Vouchers: Our Last Post Date – these have been flying out over the last couple of weeks with one customer … Read More
Beach Hut Life: My October (2017) RoundUp
Hey, fellow hutters and welcome to our first Beach Hut Life! This is a roundup of all things happening in our beach hut life and hope that you enjoy it over the months and years to come! But as you can expect, as the days get shorter, our updates, emails, blogs and news frequency will slow down a little in comparison to … Read More
2017 Spirit of Summer Photo Competition – Call for Sponsors
Our yearly photo competition is back and we’re looking for like-minded business to work with as sponsors. As one of two annual competitions that we run, our Spirit of Summer Photo competition is a great opportunity to support the beach hut lover community. And don’t forget those budding photographers who are out and about capturing memories during the summer months. … Read More
Did Dating Just Get Harder? Life as an Entrepreneur
Today marks 18 months of being single and if I’m honest, I’ve been avoiding the whole subject. Yep that big word beginning with D has been on my list of topics I’ve been avoiding. Well ok, maybe I haven’t quite avoided it. I did sign up to Match.com about 8 months ago. However, after a couple of days of … Read More
My Journey to Malawi: 15 month countdown!
Chats with my brother are always ‘interesting’: Hey Alex. Next October, would you mind looking after Millie for 9 days or so? You know, October 2018? My brother Alex, responds with Errr, yep. Why? I take a deep breath, because he’s the first person I’ve really told. And well. It makes it real. Because I’m off to Malawi. Two seconds … Read More
Inspirational Women: Erika Napoletano
As I sit down to write this post, just one week ago Erika Napoletano was closing her keynote speech at CMA Live 2017. She was the only female keynote out of four during the two days and it was a paid speaking gig. I hate the fact I have to say it was paid but the reality is that when it comes … Read More
How to Get Donations for a Charity Raffle from small businesses
You’re a volunteer and you’ve been tasked with drumming up donations for a raffle. Whether it’s a school event being run by a PTA or for a charity you work in, it takes a LOT of effort. You’ve just spent several hours, looking up businesses and dropping out emails and Facebook messages to ask for donations. You sit back and … Read More
Meet our Beach Hut Hire Owners: John and Helen, owner of Mickey and Minnie
Ever wondered who the owner is behind our beach huts? While I own three of the beach huts that we have for hire, we work with a number of other hut owners both on styling and managing their beach hut hire. But who are they? Why did they buy a beach hut and what inspired their decor? In this series … Read More