Hurrah for a half day on my birthday! I left early today so that I could fulfil a small ambition of mine, and browse the shops on Broughton Street on the way home. Now Broughton Street may be known for various things, but I’d suggest, increasingly, food. It has the long-established RealFoods at the top, …
Category archives: Moments
Nice cardi
A bit of a breakthrough. Having tried to track down a plain black cardigan for what seems a long period of time, I finally found one today. Now I know this is not exciting reading. Cardigans. Socks a couple of days ago. It’s just a good job we don’t have thermal vests as well. Jasper Carrot …
Passing the baton
Strange feeling, giving away work. Delightful too. I’d been anticipating for a little while being able to pass on a programme I’ve worked on – today I got to write that ‘introducing my new colleague’ email. In some ways, you kind of feel you could have written it any time. It’s a bit like the …
Sprout-tastic
Not the green ones. Sorry. Still can’t acquire the taste. But as a way to build myself back up to some gardening, am starting pretty much as basic as I can, and trying sprouting seeds. One of my colleagues is a long way ahead of me in this, and has given me some tips, including …
The princess and the Gentile
An opportunity to rib one of my colleagues about a misspelling in a recent email. Trying to indicate a street near our office as our meeting point in case of fire, he alerted everyone to meet at ‘Gentile’s Entry’. Where are our Jewish, and any other faith, visitors meant to go? (Edinburgh residents can work out the original …