Day 66 – 9 April 2014 and day 8 of the A to Z Blogging Challenge. The insurance market in the UK is dysfunctional. It works well, there’s lots of competition but it is still dysfunctional. I say this because every time my insurance is due for renewal I have to go through the same … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 66 (Home cover)
A year of work in progress – day 65 (Gestation)
Day 65 – 8 April 2014 and day 7 of the A to Z Blogging Challenge. It’s the panda breeding season. It’s the time of year when love is in the air for Tian Tian and Yang Guang, the Edinburgh pandas (and presumably all other pandas) and soon we may hear the patter of tiny … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 65 (Gestation)
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 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 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 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
Thoughts from a Guerrilla Worker 