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  • Vodafone- I’m loyal, not masochistic

  • A week of contradictions

  • 43 hours in the care of the NHS

  • 7am, Monday morning, on the paediatric ward

  • Take a seat!

  • Cycling and petting for the disabled

  • Back to school learning to be a parent

  • pernickety

  • New email. Simple. February 24th 2015

  • Vodafone- I’m loyal, not masochistic

    As a bona fide geek, I joined the line of people waiting for the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge phone last month, and when I saw its metallic beauty in the shops at last, I called Vodafone customer services (191) from my decrepit elderly iPhone in order to upgrade. I’m calling this day, April 14th, Tuesday, Day…

  • 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…

  • 43 hours in the care of the NHS

    Today I am continuing a theme that I love: process, and the absence of its value when someone could have been left to use their brain instead. Don’t get me wrong, to paraphrase a quite brilliant fellow MBA colleague, process porn excites me just as much as the next Project Manager. I love the way…

  • 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…

  • Take a seat!

    *sigh* it’s that time again – you know, the one that comes round annoyingly twice a month and involves signing your name and swearing on the badly photocopied piece of paper that you’re looking for work, when not wasting your time in  the job centre. Today was “Spring into action Jobs Fair” day though. Be still my…

  • Cycling and petting for the disabled

    Don’t worry – it’s not that kind of blog, at least not yet, I will explain……. Today I cycled into town. Before you get excited about this and start sending me information on Lycra and padded shorts and nutritional supplements to help me rehydrate/revitalise/recarb or reload protein or whatever you’re supposed to do; I am…

  • Back to school learning to be a parent

    For those of you new to this page, I am going to explain why I have ended up in parenting classes weekly from now until mid-July this year. I have a charming seven year old son called Connor who has ADHD, you know, that syndrome that’s basically extra-naughty-and-we-should-discipline-him-more-disease. On top of this he has Oppositional Defiance Disorder (ODD),…

  • pernickety

    This blog is pretty much a shrine to pernickety, but today even more so. All I have done all day (9-3 for those of us enslaved to the school run) is set up this blog. So I am delighted that  Wordpress in its wisdom allows me to share this fact on Facebook with a seamless click of a…

  • 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…