What happens when you finally get the chance to shift the workload, and share it a bit better? Maybe I’ll do some new stuff. There’s plenty of communications work that I can see needs doing. But perhaps I can work out how to keep a bit more of a balance. In the past, I felt …
Author archives: alison
One a day
It’s my new regime – although I’ve now broken it by starting a new post after already writing one. Getting my laptop, I decided that moderation would help in my first forays online on my own computer. So: one blog post a day. One friend invite a day on Facebook. All very sober and self-contained. …
Trophy wife or muppet?
It’s not much of a choice is it? Hopefully neither, in my own case, but it makes for a good title. The reason for mentioning this is a collection of mugs in a little shop which has just opened up on Canongate (lower reaches of the Royal Mile), with a cafe and a selection of …
The joy of leftovers
I promise I won’t write too many posts that start ‘the joy of…’ Because we know what the original was, and that’s one thing I won’t be writing about here… But anyway, leftovers, because as ever, my mind turns to food, and what to do when there’s more ingredients in the house than are scheduled …
Unsaved
So I wrote a lovely post, linking my enjoyment of our (relatively) new bathroom to contentment, world politics, and St Paul, and then it didn’t save. Typical. I actually manage to write about world politics, and nothing’s kept. I should have gone back to the default of setting of writing about food, and all would …