Career advice for Graduates – not boring!
It’s the season for people to start thinking about their careers again, and I found something useful in my inbox this morning. I subscribe to Garr Reynolds’ posterous blog (that’s a scrapbook type blog) Garr is the author of @PresentationZen a brilliant book about how not to give your audience ‘Death by Powerpoint’. Two years [...]
What to do when BT cut you off
Last week in the middle of a Wednesday afternoon, one of our drawing offices lost the use of its telephone lines. Callers just heard the phone ringing out, and staff at the office could get no dialling tone. Oh No! It took me nearly 48hours to get the phones reconnected and working again, and then [...]
The story of the EACH #treehouseappeal
One of my son’s favourite books at the moment is Tiddler: the story-telling fish. It tells the story of a fish who is always late for school and comes up with the most amazing tall story excuses for being late. Most people don’t believe him but one fish shares his stories and they become folklore. [...]
Make a Fish Pie (Cod, Smoked Haddock and Eggs)
This fish pie is homely, warming and a bit of a treat! Use the freshest fish you can get – we buy ours from the local fisherman. Serves a very hungry four. I poach 2 portions each (400g each) of fresh cod and smoked haddock, in a pint of whole milk to which I’d added [...]
Ada Lovelace Day: Doris Ophir Robinson (1901- 1973)
Doris Robinson was only 19 when she took over her father’s photography business in 1920. Her father George Robinson had set up the firm in Stowmarket, Suffolk in 1909 and had taken early pictures of parades and ceremonies in the Market Square. Still surviving in the archive are photographs of the aftermath of the 1871 [...]
All that jazz – All in A Day
If I sat down and really thought about what I could achieve in a single day, I might be able to come up with some interesting challenges that I think might be possible…. but record a whole album? Well that would probably not be one of them, even if I had the requisite talents. But [...]
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