Day 63 – 4 April 2014 and day 4 of the A to Z Blogging Challenge. Learning Dutch is number ten on my ‘Ten things I’m going to achieve this year’. Why? Because it’s there. Actually it’s a little more than that. I enjoy learning languages even though I don’t think I’m very good at … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 63 (Dutch)
A year of work in progress – day 62 (Cakes)
Day 62 – 3 April 2014 Day 61 and day 3 of the A to Z Blogging Challenge. I like baking cakes. I think that I’m quite good at it, I’m certainly better at them than I am with pastry. We have a cake club at work #cakeclub. Actually there are three of us who … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 62 (Cakes)
A year of work in progress – day 61 (Braille)
Day 61 – 2 April 2014 and day 2 of the A to Z Blogging Challenge. Today I want to talk about braille burgers but before I do I must mention Benny the Irish Polyglot only because he is such an inspiration. He has a simple mantra for learning a language and that is to … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 61 (Braille)
A year of work in progress – day 57
Day 57 – 27 March 2014 I thought I’d get the train in this morning as I was in County Hall all day. I tried to check that everything was running fine on the national rail web site only to get a run time error. I must admit to experiencing a little schadenfreude at the … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 57
A year of work in progress – day 56
Day 56 – 26 March 2014 I’ve started to read ‘Fluent in 3 Months’ by Benny Lewis (Benny the Irish Polyglot) with the promise of tips and techniques to help you learn any language. I’m still persevering with my Dutch but progress has stalled even though I’ve been through the CDs twice now. What I … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 56
A year of work in progress – day 54
Day 54 – 24 March 2014 It’s not every day that you get interviewed for a magazine but today was one of them. It wasn’t until after lunch. Back to this morning, Tony, the Digital Durham programme director is off all week and so I have no one to ring from the car first thing. … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 54
A year of work in progress – day 51
Day 51 – 19 March 2014 I’ve been asked to speak at the first Dynamo conference at the beginning of May. Dynamo is a new group that has been set up to represent the ICT sector in the North East. I’ll not get carried away however as I think there will be forty of us … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 51
A year of work in progress – day 49
Day 49 – 14 March 2014 It turns out that Durham County Council has won the ‘Council of the Year’, a prestigious award promoted by the Local Government Chronicle. It’s like an Oscar for best movie, an excellent achievement and some reward for the five years of hard work following Local Government Review when the … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 49
A year of work in progress – day 48
Day 48 – 13 March 2014 I woke this morning feeling a little nervous. I was up for re-election. Since Tom left Sunderland I have been the chair of the North East ICT Managers group (NEICT) and today was the Annual General Meeting. It’s something I’ve enjoyed doing and I think the group is more … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 48
A year of work in progress – day 47
Day 47 – 12 March 2014 Management Wednesday and what is worse it was also password change day. It used to be so easy, your pet’s name, your address or your favourite holiday destination. Stick a number on the end if you needed to change it. Now it has to have capitals, numbers, Cyrillic script … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 47
Thoughts from a Guerrilla Worker 