This week has been a bitty one to be honest. One sensory review of my smallest ADHD son, coupled with the ever increasing joy of signing on and parenting classes. Let’s start with the post though, and a refusal to renew the Disability Living Allowance for our eldest son who was born with bilateral cataracts and … Continue reading It is MUCH better to be STUPID and unemployed/disabled
Entrepreneurship
A week of contradictions
As a celebration of diversity, I think it is amazing that we live on a planet with the starkly contrasting environments that I have observed this week. We have huge multinational companies striving to make the world a more efficient or easier place with technology that makes your mind boggle and climbers on Mt Everest facing perhaps the world's greatest natural challenge, particularly in … Continue reading A week of contradictions
7am, Monday morning, on the paediatric ward
After a surprisingly OK shower, I head towards the parents’ kitchen which proudly bears the sign “free tea and coffee” on the door. I need to defrost; I do not need powdered coffee with no milk. Note to self – find café. I go to see how my girl is getting on, still fast asleep … Continue reading 7am, Monday morning, on the paediatric ward
New email. Simple. February 24th 2015
Need a gmail account for my new company – simples – go to Google. Get half way through the interminably complicated procedure of demonstrating that I own my own domain and realise that I am actually going to have to host my web page somewhere to show that I own it. I build my web … Continue reading New email. Simple. February 24th 2015
Networking January 29th 2015
30 people in the room, 2 other women, one of whom is ticking names off on a sheet for who's had free beer. Must be at another techie networking event