Time for another season of weeknotes – though there is every chance the title is nonsense but Google thinks that is Week Note One in Scots Gaelic as I am writing this in Edinburgh as I hide from humanity after a wonderful – but intense – few days up here for Service `Design in Government.…

…and we’re done. 52 weeks but actually 37 weeknotes. Started two jobs. Travelled to nine countries. Three Prime Ministers. Two monarchs. Finishing up on the three year anniversary of my first lockdown. Which feels like both yesterday and forever ago. It has been a good 12 months. Not without its bumps but with an awful…

This has been a bit of a weird week if I am honest. I’ve felt a bit off balance and out of sorts more often than not and had a bit of a wobble with my anxiety yesterday morning for the first time in quite a while. Really had me discombobulated and just in time…

A couple of notable things happened this week; I’ve been working hard promoting the Product Manager vacancy in the team this week. There is so much competition for these roles – at least six or seven other public service orgs have live recruitment campaigns for roles with almost identical job descriptions and very similar salaries.…