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Planning with Military Precision – it’s School Trip Season
The school trips I did as a child are one of my strongest memories. The smell of the coaches, the excitement, wanting to eat my lunch as soon as we got there at 9:30, just being somewhere and learning things in a brand new environment...I remember every single one,...
Enjoying (Surviving) Britain’s Got Talent Week with the Kids
I love Britain's Got Talent. We’ve watched it from the start, managing to ignore Piers Morgan for the most part, and even sticking with it through the tricky Hasselhof years.I feel it has become much less spontaneous and more staged over the years - although Simon's...
Books Vs Screen – the love affair and the one-night-stand
Films or TV programmes that are based on book originals – do you prefer reading them, or watching them?You can probably guess which side of the fence I come down on here. The relationship you have with a book is completely different to one you have with a film. Films...
My Mental Health – How I’ve Calmed my Anxious Passenger
Last year, I blogged about my anxiety. It’s mild compared to many, but it’s there. It’s the anxious passenger I carry with me wherever I go, and whatever I’m doing. A lot of the time it keeps quiet, but sometimes it gets noisy, and sometimes it can be downright...
I thought SATs couldn’t get any worse
Last year, our little boy was 6 years old, and in Year 2. Nobody told him he was doing SATs, but he knew something was up - here's the account of what was happening then: SATs: this is what they're doing to our 6-year-old. When I shared that post, the most surprising...
Cautionary Tales about Proofreading
I was delighted to get some proofreading work my way this week. It’s one of my favourite jobs. The writing is all there, the words and voice are already the customer’s own, and all I have to do is buff it up, and make it the most beautiful version it can be. If you're...
Brilliant Out of Office Messages
It's Out Of Office autoreply season for mailboxes up and down the land. Lots of people will be taking advantage of the bank holidays to tack on spare annual leave days for family time, or a spot of DIY around the house (I believe the Easter weekend is one of the...
Networking – Magic for your Small Business
Years ago my Dad told me that the key to success is not what you know, but who you know. I was quite peeved by that thought, because I was working hard at school to know things, and I didn’t know that many people. Plus, as a natural introvert, I didn’t feel overly...
