Portfolio Working
A portfolio career is something that has intrigued me for a while, but it is really only something I started to put any effort into shaping for myself a few months ago. If you are not familiar with the term,…
A portfolio career is something that has intrigued me for a while, but it is really only something I started to put any effort into shaping for myself a few months ago. If you are not familiar with the term,…
If Grey’s Anatomy was a sport, I would wear my Team McSteamy t-shirt with pride. I would wear it to the shops, to the pub and on holiday. I would wear it out to lunch with…
As I sit here typing, I am idly picking at the last of the festive macaroons so that they are all ‘gone’ by the new year, which I plan to sing in with a belly full…
I have never been brilliant at saying no. ‘Can you work late tonight?’ No problem, I say, while secretly rearranging my plans for dinner. ‘Do you mind helping me with something?’ Of course, I respond, before…
Writing a book and launching a new business is easy. SAID NO-ONE EVER. Yet, for the last few months this is exactly what I have been doing. Longer, if you go back 3-years ago to…
When I was growing up, I used to visit North Devon with my family every summer. When I was really little, we’d pitch a tent and camp on a resort in Ilfracombe, but my parents eventually invested in…
Years and years and years ago, I was invited along to a fancy party hosted by a popular gossip magazine at the time. The party was held on a yacht on the Thames and was…
I was so caught up in how big a deal returning to work was for me, that I underestimated how big a deal it was for the rest of my family. For 2-days a week,…
Over the summer, I made the decision to return to work. I quit my previous job two years ago to spend more time at home with my family and help my son settle in at…
I landed back on the Slimming World scales with a giant thud and some 13-lbs heavier than when I stepped on them before the summer. I wish I could say it was worth it, but…
The day after my son turned 6, I turned 42. We both celebrated in Crete again, an unplanned tradition that we all seem quite happy to keep. My 42nd birthday seemed to creep up on me…
I took the summer off. It was not a planned blogging holiday, more that one week turned into two that turned into six and before I knew it, here we are in September and I have…