I’d love to say that I’ve done lots of writing this summer, after all my ‘I must write’ blog posts, but I have made a little start. I now have a notebook for writing. Some of it is just funny things that I see or come across, in the hope that they may form the …
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When I grow up I want to be…
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 …
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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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 …
Selling Blogs: An Ironic Turn
Been a bit quiet on the Blog of late. In truth I’ve been working on blogs a lot – or rather selling them. This is a bit bizarre as in November we set up our own and it was Alison more than me that took it on. We won a contract to build a blog …