Doing this a day early as hopefully by this time tomorrow I will be trying to work out whether I should have an extra pint (which will lead to who knows how many more) or head home and be sensible for it is the Season 🎄 This week consisted of a lot of writing/editing/thinking/rinse/repeat. I…

If Week Ten was hard for non-work reasons this one has been pretty tiring due to the day job(s). It hasn’t been bad but there was a step up in intensity and context switching as I got involved in a number of additional bits of work and had to get up to speed pretty quickly…

This was a difficult week for reasons unrelated to the work. Yesterday morning was my grandmother’s funeral which I found harder than I expected – in fact the thought of it had contributed to my feeling distracted and fragile all week and my traditional November man-flu (hey at least it wasn’t Covid this time) didn’t…

I did work Monday and Tuesday but truth be told I was still a bit jet-lagged and while I seem to have been busy I can’t really remember much about what I was doing! Wednesday evening I attended the party to celebrate the 20th anniversary of mySociety at the Conway Hall in London. It was…

It is noon on Thursday 9th November. I’m on a slow train from Ottawa to Toronto – four hours and forty five minutes of staring out of the window at the passing – and for now snowy – landscape. It has been a bit of a roller coaster of a week in Canada.  I got…