It’s tricky to find the right title for this one. This January has been affected by new arrivals, and an unexpected departure. Many of my colleagues came back to work on 8 January, to the news that one, K, who also worked in education, had died the previous weekend. K had beaten cancer once, but …
Category archives: Writing
Gherkins are good for stress
What does your workspace say about you? Mine has a postcard in Polish, claiming that gherkins are good for stress. I haven’t actually tried eating them at work. But probably it’s just the sight of a silly postcard, and a link to Poland, that cheers me up. I work in an open plan environment, which …
Playing with worms
For the squeamish, no, it’s not that bad. It really means playing with words. Any excuse for a pun. We all know that we grow up thinking that everyone lives like our family does. At some point or other, we realise that not everyone does, which can be a bit of a surprise. In my …
Blogito, ergo sum
“I write online, therefore I am…” No, it’s not that bad, honest. I’m just writing lots of posts now to account for the last year. I’m not a diary keeper on the scale of Michael Palin, who somehow seemed to keep a diary every day, amid the dead parrots and tropical fish called Wanda. Nor …
Landscape of the Imagination
A friend of mine once said that everything in the future was in the landscape of the imagination. I always loved that phrase and thought it might be a good title for a book one day. For now it has to make do with being the title of this post. Why blog? Well, we’ve been …