Realising that I’m into a time of quite a bit of musing about work, and what I could be doing in the future. Perhaps it’s taking me a long time to find the courage to make a change…while all around me colleagues have been doing so quite happily. This last week has shown me two …
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Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor…quartermaster?
Dan and I worked out one time that we had relatives covering all of the above. Dan’s great grandfather (surname Barry) came from Ireland, and the family there did sell items, as far as we know. Dan’s grandfather, where the Frydman connection comes in, was a tailor, in the east end of London. My great …
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Beside the forthside
It’s not really beside the seaside, living in Edinburgh. The big rolling ocean is still quite a while away. But it’s really about the smell. Waft some seaweed under my nose, and I’m happy. Instant holiday. So, we managed an outing with my parents yesterday – took their car up to Silverknowes, and walked along …
Other people’s jobs
What do you want to do when you grow up? We’re both into our thirties, and sometimes we still ask each other about things ‘when we’re grown up’. My parents are probably of the last main generation when you did make that ‘decision’. We’re in one where yes, you can do ‘just’ one thing all …
Give us this day our daily cheese
There’s a bloke out there who makes cheese. Cheddar, I believe. He has a website about cheese, and a webcam of a particular cheese, so you can watch in mature in real time. I read somewhere that there’s another bloke who logs on every night to see how the cheese is getting on. He finds …