A year of work in progress – day 64 (Flow)

Day 64 – 7 April 2014 and day 6 of the A to Z Blogging Challenge. We need to think more about flow. Work should flow through our organisations. Ideas and opportunities should fall like rain and gather in streams and rivulets before coming together in a mighty river, sucked to the sea by the … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 64 (Flow)

A year of work in progress – day 63 (Dutch)

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 59

Day 59 – 31 March 2014 Today was the last day of the financial year. Of course there was a lot of preparation for the end of year party with drinks, snacks and fireworks to buy. All of the invites went out weeks ago but there was really no need as everyone knows that the … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 59

A year of work in progress – day 58

Day 58 – 28 March 2014 I seem to be starting a lot of these blogs off with it’s not every day that. Perhaps that’s because each day is different and there are lots of new things to get involved in. Anyway, it’s not every day that you get to meet a childhood hero. Today … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 58

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 55

Day 55 – 25 March 2014 By my calculation I think I am a quarter of the way through the year. I’m assuming that there are 365 days less weekends, bank and normal holidays and this comes to 220 working days. It may be one or two either way. I’m not counting any time I … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 55

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