I’m back in Blighty and the jet lag is kicking my backside as usual. I left Austin Monday evening – a couple of hours later than planned (a fuel truck crashed and spilled its load at the airport) and after an interesting day (I ended up getting Maced in a 7/11 in a case of…

The International edition. Since my last weeknote I have travelled to Miami and am now writing this in Austin – fully indulging in my privilege it has to be said. Keen as I am to return to work and get some structure and stimulus in my life again there is a lot to be said…

As suspected Week 09 ended up being it for me at UKHSA. I could have wrung a couple of extra days out of this week but it just didn’t seem like the right thing to do so I have had a down week as I psych myself up for my trip. As such not a…

This was a topsy turvy week but work wise it ended well today so I think I’ll just focus on that. For the first time in 25 months I went to an office and worked alongside actual flesh and blood humans. I’d been asked to facilitate a ‘whole life’ retrospective for one of the teams/programmes…

I haven’t been working for UKHSA this week – I decided to step away fully for a few days as lurking on the work Windows laptop everyday waiting for something to happen where I could genuinely contribute was spinning me out a bit.  The timing was pretty good – I had a first interview for…