It's been a while since I wrote one of my weekly missives. Most weeks recently I just don't have the time, the inspiration or the energy to write something entertaining (for me or for you). I know the idea is you show up, you write and that is the work. But I feel like I've… Continue reading 46.2022
Tag: Work
Seats for lonely eaters
My new office cafeteria has a number of high bench seats that face the windows. Here you can sit with your back to the cafeteria and look out at the view. But I can’t help thinking how these were labelled in early pictures of the new building: seats for lonely eaters. It was probably a… Continue reading Seats for lonely eaters
Love this city… (but sometimes I hate it too)
I always dreamt about one day living in London. I'm not quite sure what I pictured this life would be, but presumably my dreams did not involve things like: queuing for a bus, cramming onto a crowded Tube, getting wet feet from a hidden puddle under wobbly paving on the footpath. But these are as much… Continue reading Love this city… (but sometimes I hate it too)
The Rise and Fall (24.2022)
Last week was a long, tough week. Work ramped up with a big task landing on my desk on Monday morning with a Wednesday deadline. This task took up all of my Monday, preparing a first draft of the document and sending it out to the team who needed to review and add to it.… Continue reading The Rise and Fall (24.2022)
Back into it (23.2022)
I hope you’ll excuse my recent burst of silence. I’ve been back from Australia for a while but was not much motivated to write last weekend, so you’ll miss all of my insightful comments on the Queen’s Jubilee. Actually I didn’t watch any of the pageantry or concerts or… any of it. We celebrated the… Continue reading Back into it (23.2022)
How to be a winner and loser at the same time (19.22)
Good and bad news this week. Let's start with this week’s bad news: I lost a friend. Not a real friend, but someone whose voice I have listened to intently over the last two years. Someone whose relaxing tone helped me feel calm and focussed; someone who made me laugh; someone who helped me calm… Continue reading How to be a winner and loser at the same time (19.22)
May I? May 1 (17.2022)
Back from holidays and in need of some catching up with this blog and with all my writing in general. I'm carrying a lot of thoughts around in my head and I really need to start putting them down on real or virtual paper. I need to get back onto a more regular writing routine,… Continue reading May I? May 1 (17.2022)
Pre holiday panic (14.22)
Wednesday I go to sleep composing in my head the emails I didn't send today but need to send tomorrow. I wake up some time around 2:00am, listening to heavy rain smacking against the windows and find my mind caught in a thought loop about the different ways ough is pronounced in English. * thought… Continue reading Pre holiday panic (14.22)
One foot in front of the other (12.22)
Second week into my new job and I'm starting to realise just how much I don't know. I've gone from working very intensely on seven or eight projects, to working at a very surface level on potentially over one hundred projects. This is requiring a significant change of mindset and an ongoing sense of panic… Continue reading One foot in front of the other (12.22)
Sprung (11.22)
I started my new job this week. But it was three days in before I went to the office and started to meet my new colleagues. The woman who is helping me settle in brought me flowers, which was lovely and a sign of how happy she is she no longer has to manage a… Continue reading Sprung (11.22)
Tales from Tobhamhor 