Beaujolais nouveau may not be everyone's favourite wine, but it gave Business Exchange Toulouse a "jolais" good excuse to get together.   We teamed the wine up with some good, strong cheddar, Hovis biscuits and bread from the bakery in #Levignac.

By "We",  I mean Delphine (www.vagabondonline.com) Penny (www.monsieurmole.com & www.greenfrog.com) Sam (Doctor), Chris (Catwoman), Sophie (Insurance agent), Tanya (Portalis Le Conseil Immobilier - check out their facebook page) and me (Career & Business Coach).

We didn't do that networking thing where people walk around with their names in a little plastic envelope attached to their jumper - no - we just sat around a table and listened to each other discussing our businesses, explaining what we each do, and what our plans are for the next couple of weeks.

"Networking" often gets a bad press, but you know, I really enjoyed our evening, and am looking forward our next "networking" session - a working lunch event in the New Year.  Happy Networking!

'On, not just In' should be the name of my business.  A firm believer that as business owners we need to spend time working ON our businesses and not just IN them, I've recently been following my own advice.  I've refreshed, rejuvinated, jushed my site.  Here are the results, what do you think?