New Job – First Week Faux Pas
I have ventured into the world of paid work for the first time in two whole years, having been made redundant two years ago from running a mortgage business for an AIM listed business. With a chunky payout in hand and 24 years of stressful career ladder climbing behind me I decided time was to [...]
The Rapture: Fact or Fiction?
On May 21st, people all over the world had prepared themselves for the worst and were ready to face “Judgement Day”, thanks to a prediction which eventually turned out to be wrong! Harold Camping (aged 90) is an American Christian radio broadcaster who, after one wrong prediction in September 1994 later decided “The Rapture” would [...]
Pink Stinks and other womanly traits?
I long since stopped defining myself as a fully feminine woman via my performances in the zones of housework and hygiene. I am biologically girly pink, but everything else is up for negotiation. Don’t get me wrong, I do it, for myself, but I’m just not invested in it in terms of outward appearances. This [...]
On being disagreeable
Probably, after procrastination, one of my main areas of expertise I am increasingly getting fed up with all those people who have a problem with disagreement. It seems to me, that there are increasing numbers of people who are so sure they are right – as if they have some superior access to knowledge about [...]
Did you hear the one about the German with a sense of humour…
Starting a business for the first time is an obstacle course wherever you do it. When you do it in another country and culture it’s more like trying to negotiate your way on stilts, blindfolded, across a rickety rope bridge above a volcanic lava flow. I started my business in Germany. Fortunately, I speak German [...]
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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