Day 83 – 9 May 2014 Last night’s presentation to the Three Towns Area Action Partnership wasn’t the scintillating end to the day that I had hoped for. I didn’t feel that I was on top form perhaps I was a little tired. It was their annual general meeting and so I had to sit … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 83
A year of work in progress – day 76 (Yarmouk)
Day 76 – 29 April 2014 and day 25 of the A to Z Blogging Challenge. ‘The lexicon of man’s inhumanity to man has a new word and that is Yarmouk,’ said the spokesperson on Radio 4. ‘Shame on all of us that in a United Nations led refugee camp people are dying of starvation’ … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 76 (Yarmouk)
A year of work in progress – day 75 (Xenophile)
Day 75 – 28 April 2014 and day 24 of the A to Z Blogging Challenge. X was always going to be a difficult letter. I could have chosen a word with an x in it like extraordinary and started from there. I could have chosen a more obvious word like x-ray and used it … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 75 (Xenophile)
A year of work in progress – day 73 (Understand)
Day 73 – 24 April 2014 and day 21 of the A to Z Blogging Challenge. The key to solving any problem is first to understand. Doing can come later. Our immediate reaction when faced with an issue whether it is a simple problem or a catastrophic disaster is to do something - anything. We … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 73 (Understand)
A year of work in progress – day 71 (Soft machine)
Day 71 – 22 April 2014 and day 19 of the A to Z Blogging Challenge. ‘I’ve bought this Dad but it’s a bit heavy going and I can’t get into it.’ My youngest daughter handed me a thin paperback as we made to say our goodbyes. ‘I thought you might like to give it … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 71 (Soft machine)
A year of work in progress – day 70 (Optimist)
Day 70 – 17 April 2014 and day 15 of the A to Z Blogging Challenge. I am a congenital optimist, I just can’t help myself. Maybe I was born with it. My glass is always half full, the grass is always greener on my side of the fence and life is a string of … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 70 (Optimist)
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 50
Day 50 – 18 March 2014 I had a day off yesterday, the last of this year’s. I’ve timed it quite well as there are only eleven more days left of this fiscal year. Holidays have always presented a small problem for us as the year in which you an accrue them and take them … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 50
Thoughts from a Guerrilla Worker 