Day 110 – 25 June 2014 Bob said I could use this in my blog. Yesterday afternoon he knocked on the door as I was waiting for a meeting in the Room for Improvement and asked if I could spare a few minutes. At first I thought ‘here we go’ but we cleared up a … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 110
A year of work in progress – day 108
Day 108 – 23 June 2014 First days back are the worst. After five days off I came back to 746 emails, 597 in my inbox, 28 that I was copied into and 121 in a mass mail box that I’d set a new rule up for. The interesting thing though is that all of … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 108
A year of work in progress – day 101
Day 101 – 5 June 2014 I had no presentations today but I did go and check my laptop with the projector in committee room two as it didn’t show the video correctly yesterday. In a way that was fortunate as most of the rude bits were left off the screen. I have the same … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 101
A year of work in progress – day 100
Day 100 – 4 June 2014 A hundred days and what have I achieved? I picked up Neil A on the way into work this morning as it is management Wednesday and he lives in Cramlington. Finding one space at County Hall (Durham) is hard enough but finding two would be a miracle. We got … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 100
A year of work in progress – day 99
Day 99 – 3 June 2014 Broadband Delivery UK keeps telling us that we are running one of the best programmes across the country. Apparently we are in their top five out of forty four. I’m not sure how they judge this or how we could get to number one, even if we wanted to. … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 99
A year of work in progress – day 98
Day 98 – 2 June 2014 Today was a game of two halves. The morning was in County Hall in Durham and the afternoon was in County Hall in Northumberland. This is going to get confusing. After a couple of very short meetings about the web and communications for Digital Durham I tried something different … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 98
A year of work in progress – day 96
Day 96 – 29 May 2014 Having reflected on yesterday’s training session I am very pleased with the outcome. Darran always does a great job. He manages to get the balance right between the trainer and a colleague. There were only eleven of us out of seventeen and so having this in half term might … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 96
A year of work in progress – day 95
Day 95 – 28 May 2014 I had so much to think about from our visit to Edinburgh that I nearly missed my stop coming back. Fortunately Steve tapped me on the shoulder which woke me from my day dream. I nearly took out a small child in my rush to get off the train. … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 95
A year of work in progress – day 77 (Zoology)
Day 77 – 30 April 2014 and day 26 of the A to Z Blogging Challenge. The last day of the A to Z Blogging Challenge and I’m pleased to say that I have arrived in one piece. Not everyone did though. I started off at number 422 and ended up at 383 (out of2018) … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 77 (Zoology)
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)
Thoughts from a Guerrilla Worker 