By Clem Our return to the office in January was brightened by the arrival of our distant Pomegranite, Carla, who now lives in Oxford. In our first week back, we were sent a rather cryptic email from Liz inviting us to a mystery inspiration day with
By Liz It’s a big week at Pomegranite HQ. Sarah has joined us from Joburg for the week and we are celebrating our fifth birthday on Friday. The days have been busy seeing clients and workshopping our processes as a team. To break up the activity and
By Sarah It’s been a while since we had a proper inspiration day, and it didn’t take long to decide what we were going to do. We needed more plates for our office. Solution: Clay Café. Again. I think it was our fourth visit? It’s a
For our March edition of Inspiration Day, we headed off on an office plant buying mission to Starke Ayres in Rosebank.
I think I’d been working at Pomegranite for less than a week when everyone told me about how excited I should be for our year-end party/inspiration day. Riyad even dubbed last year’s one as one of the best days of his life. The five month buildup was
The activity for our August inspiration day was a topic of debate. There were those who wanted to climb Lion’s Head (Riyad really wanted to wear his compression pants), those who were angling for a Hint Hunt (vetoed, quite strongly), and those who thought Clay
by Carla At Pomegranite we eased back into things with a first week consisting of half-days and ending with an Inspiration Day. Getting back into the swing of work is always challenging after the festive season. Our method, we think, is much kinder on the soul.
When was the last time you felt the wonder of stroking a whale's tooth as tall as your whole body, the excitement of seeing tiny sea horses zoom around each other, or basked in the light of a 200 million litre shark tank? It had
By now, you'll know that every month, Pomegranite takes some time to get out of the office and talk about the bigger picture of the business. We've gone for lake-side picnics and forest walks, we've been surfing and wondering in tree canopies - anything where we
We recently had one of our regular Pomegranite inspiration days at Kirstenbosch Gardens to check out 'the Boomslang' - a Tree Canopy Walkway to commemorate the Botanical Garden's centenary. Here's some of what we saw:
Liz and I, for the most part, spent the long weekend working on two websites that needed to be launched on Monday. With deadlines met and very happy clients, we decided to leave work early on Tuesday afternoon for a walk around Lion’s Head for
Once a month, Pomegranite leaves the office for a morning or afternoon, and spends some time out in the world, talking about the business, coming up with new ideas, and just having fun, doing something we will remember with more clarity than answering emails and