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 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 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
A year of work in progress – day 52
Day 52 – 20 March 2014 Today is International Happiness Day, so happy happy day. I set out to enjoy every day at work this year but is that the same thing? Can you enjoy yourself without being happy? Are happiness and enjoyment variable measures of the same thing? I don’t know and what’s more … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 52
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 45
Day 45 – 10 March 2014 I’ve been off-net for two working days. I haven’t looked at my email until this morning. I even switched off the synchronisation on my phone just in case I got tempted. And I did. Thursday morning was difficult and I must confess to feeling withdrawal symptoms. Two whole days … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 45
South west one
I received an email from the Best Practice Group inviting me to read a report on ‘Southwest One, The Official 9 Lessons Learned’. It sounded interesting though I knew it would come with a sales pitch on how to avoid such mistakes in future. You can read the report here. If you are not in … Continue reading South west one
Thoughts from a Guerrilla Worker 