Balancing Professional and Personal Life: Digital Tools That Work for You
Balancing Professional and Personal Life: Digital Tools That Work For You I shouldn’t have as much on my plate now that I’m not really working as such. But between staying involved with BISLN, catching up with the kids, journaling, and blogging, I somehow still find myself needing to map out my time. I don’t think I’m […]
Connecting ‘The Other’ Through Music and Memory
Connecting ‘The Other’ Through Music and Memory This weekend, my choir took part in a service at the local Methodist chapel. I’m used to singing in the lovely village church, one with stained glass windows, candlelit altars, and all the rich, resounding acoustics of a place that feels grand and steeped in history. We love […]
Fun Day out at Kirton Off Road Centre
I’m just reflecting on the week that was, and I would have to say the highlight was a trip to the local quarry where I got to experience off-road driving for the first time. My good pal John was a founding member of the off-road driving group who regularly meets there and has been enticing me over with the promise of a buzz not to be forgotten – the likes of which a thrill-seeker like myself frequently needs to experience.
FAST, FURIOUS and FEMINIST AT 50
My Porsche Driving Experience My dad trying out the porsche I’ve decided that part of embracing change entails embracing my mid-life crisis, and thus I find myself co-owner of a rather fabulously loud and attractive Porsche Boxster S (the co-owner says the ‘S’ is important!) I am pretty happy to join the exlusive club of Porsche Drivers […]
Tiger Mum or Alley Cat?
Tiger Parent or Alley Cat? I was having an on-line catch up with a teacher friend the other evening and asked her what her holiday plans were. She explained that they weren’t going away as her daughter was revising for her IGCSEs, so it made sense to stay home. I know for myself the pressures […]
Goodbyes as an Art Form
Saying Goodbye Nowadays I seem to spend half of my life saying goodbyes, either to friends and family in Bangkok and Broughton, or witnessing others say goodbye at train stations and airports. In fact I’m starting to feel like I am living that scene in the credits at the end of Love Actually, an array […]