Today I spent the first day in a new place of work. Not quite full-time, but filling in and, hopefully, working when it suits. I loved it and I’m very excited by the opportunity. It’s really stimulating to be learning new stuff and, for once, it resembles a career move with career as a noun.My […]
Why Monday’s paper looks familiar
Newspaper rules For the most part, things that go into newspapers must be fresh, new and not seen anywhere else.There is, however, an important exception. It’s Sunday. That’s the one day of the week when that strict and sacred rule isn’t worth a half-chewed toffee. You see, on Sundays – the day when Monday’s paper […]
Noise abatement and a terror attack
Things I’ve learned from my children today. The volume needs to be turned down. I’ve been offered the chance to do a bit of extra work somewhere new and I’m very excited about it. During the process of all the necessary sorting out to free myself to get there, I thought I’d organised out another […]
bread vs poo and some suggestions
The fascinations of scatology, garbage and chemistry
Things I’ve learned from my children today. I don’t need to worry about modern communications taking my children into a sophisticated adult world too soon. Boy Two decided a while back that he would like an email address to write to his grandmothers, his dad and his friends. It was fairly hard to find a […]
getting it off my chest again
More things I’ve probably never told anyone before. This confession thing is getting out of hand – I can’t stop thinking of more secrets I just want to share with a load of strangers. Maybe blogs have a sort of Big Brother effect where people forget their boyfriends/husbands might be looking and cop off with […]
Sarcmarc inventor LOL
Other things I’ve learned There’s a new punctuation mark. It’s called the Sarcmark and for $!.99 you can use it as often you want to let people know when you’re being sarky. I can’t make up my mind whether this is sheer genius and just what communication is calling out for or yet more e-piffle.I’ll […]