Ten weeks – in some ways it still seems like 10 days and in others 10 months. It is safe to say that this has been the most challenging induction period to a role I’ve ever had (and as my readers know – I’ve had my share!) I’m not sure just how much the job…

Tonight I renewed my season ticket for the second time so that makes it two full months. Time flies. It really has been one hell of an induction so far. The people are great, the challenges are pretty immense and the spotlight is intimidating. This week was the first proper ONS week that my more…

This week I was very much at the mercy of First Group. Monday morning a broken down train meant a 3 hour commute to the office that included a (very late) train, a coach and a bus. The security levels at this job mean I can’t access anything remotely and don’t have a ‘crackberry’ or…

Blooming heck seven weeks. Seven! Still feels like day one in a lot of ways. I spent this week away from Newport – 3 days in Titchfield and a day in London for Citizen 2013 (working from home today). I’ve been (way) under the weather all week so it wasn’t really a great time to…

Bit of a roller coaster of a week it has to be said. It finished on a positive note though so I’m clinging on to that. Monday started pretty well. I had the first meeting of all my team leads – well the ones who were in (so design, programme comms, editorial and content management…