This phrase makes me chuckle every time I hear it. It reminds me of the camaraderie I enjoyed early in my Civil Service career. There are a few theories about the origin of the phrase but the meaning stays the same – it’s the retelling of a story or joke numerous times. Yes I’ve been […]
Over the last couple of weeks my daily habits have drifted from a creative focus into a busy business zone. It was an inevitable shift, which I thought would produce guilt and anxiety but it didn’t. I accepted the latest course correction and acknowledged the segue into the freelance world. It was time. I navigated […]
The energy, buzz and excitement of my Edinburgh Fringe trip is largely over but for the occasional glimpse of someone else’s experience, via a twitter feed. Like the popular fiction summer school, I assumed the Fringe would again fire up lots of creative ideas that would keep me lifted, upbeat and firing on all cylinders […]
At last! After countless promises to myself, I managed to attend the Edinburgh Fringe and it did not disappoint. Towing along with my two uni besties the first show – Desiree’s Coming Early set a high bar for stand-up comedy. We saw over 10 comedians and this set was the best by far. Desiree spun a […]
The weekend is here and I have passed another self-imposed deadline. Like any good procrastinator, I can come up with a host of reasons why I haven’t been as productive as I would have liked, but nothing has the power to derail productivity like physical pain. I boringly over stretched a hip muscle during a […]
This has not been my most productive week. I put that down to the time spent trying to spin a spy story out of thin air. This is what happens when you create intrigue, people like it and they want you to do more. Just a couple of encouraging comments about Back in Service transformed […]
My new business cards arrived and I’ve been slowly getting my ‘twitter’ on. I met with a Business Advisor from a local enterprise scheme, then I had to put my big girl pants on for my first ever networking meeting. Everyone I met was encouraging and helpful, which naturally generated more things for me to […]
It is very easy to say, ‘if you want to be a writer, you must write’ but it’s a whole other thing to actually write. The advice available on writing is vast and most approaches will include ‘going for a walk’ at some point. It is still good advice for many reasons, but to be […]
Mabel Penn perched huge glasses on her nose to look at the computer screen, not that she really needed them. The oversized beige cardigan she wore caught on the arm of her chair and pulled a thread. Mabel quietly swore under her breath, then looking over her glasses, she quickly scanned the library to make […]
I recently touched base again with someone I met many years ago travelling through my second mid-life crisis. It’s funny how people who just come into your life for a brief moment can have such a profound effect. To use his words ‘that cat you met on a Russian plane on the return flight from […]
