I’d forgotten all about referencing
I’ve recently signed up to complete a university course that, eventually, will give me an Executive MBA. Naturally, I’m both excited and apprehensive in equal…
This is my more personal blog.
It got its name back in the late Noughties, inspired by Costa Coffee (my employer at the time) launching their “saving the world from mediocre coffee” campaign. It’s a jibe at myself. Just like the world didn’t need saving from mediocre coffee (because that’s subjective), you may well find my opinions mediocre.
A routine is actually about being in control
There are, supposedly, lots of benefits to having a morning and an evening routine. As I journey through my 30s, I feel like maybe –…
Parliament should have the final say
Today Keir Starmer has been talking to people like me, carrying on the crusade to “back the builders, not the blockers” and I have to…
Why bother
I’ve had reason to contact a few companies over the last couple of weeks, and in all three cases I have needed to speak to…
A trip back to 1938
It’s time for that short period, where a year ago today we were doing the last “normal” things without realising it. In 1938, Neville Chamberlain…
Reflecting on 2020
From the perspective of December, I feel slightly less than unique in describing 2020 as an ‘unusual’ year – but I knew it was going…
What is success for me?
I pulled this question out of my new “wordsmith” deck of writing prompts. I thought I should write and post something and so here I…
Oh, someone else will sort it
Coffee shops are fascinating from every perspective. I think so anyway. Firstly, I reckon the shop someone plumps for when faced with a choice between…
You’ll never guess what Monarch’s planes are doing now
… Broadly speaking, they’re flying about. So probably not that surprising. This blog post is mainly appearing here because I found myself wondering about the…
Do you really need to know I’ve read it?
For as long as I can remember now, the people who message me have been able to see that I’ve read them. Back in the…
39 dwellings
It’s hard to tell just how many tweets there have been about the flooded development site near Whalley in Ribble Valey just off the A59 but it’s fair to say it’s been a quite a few.
It gets you from A to Be doesn’t it?
For reasons that I won’t go into, because they’re rather uninteresting, I have a hire car at the moment. It’s a Suzuki Switft, which I’ve…