A starry early morning walk today – the demands of a hectic travel schedule for work meant that I set the alarm for 5am in order to get an hour’s walk in before leaving on an early train. I listened to the BBC Radio Three Arts and Ideas podcast about insects, colours and Virginia Woolf. … Continue reading
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100 days of walking: day two
A totally gorgeous winter morning today – cold but bright. So after spending a frustrating 90 minutes this morning getting sucked down a rabbit-hole of work emails (why do I look at them when I’m on holiday? Why? What is wrong with me?), I set out for a longer walk with the dog today. An … Continue reading
100 days of walking – day one
This year for Lent (and then some) I am taking something up – rather than cutting something out. My life doesn’t include enough exercise, the dog needs to get out, and I need to do something easy, inexpensive and possible to undertake anywhere. So I have set myself the challenge of walking for an hour … Continue reading
Red Haven’s on Fire
I have become, over the past few weeks, ever more disillusioned with the dispiritingly moral bankruptcy of political reality in the UK. To the extent that I’d like to sign up to whatever peculiar Aaron Sorkin inspired cult exists that will allow me to absorb myself in a fantasy-world where the leader of the free … Continue reading
Mozilla mobile webonomics – Anuerin Bevan would be proud
This week I had the great privilege of attending @CampusPartyEurope: five days of frenetic gaming, hacking, coding and robotics hosted at London’s O2 by Telefonica. I’d like to point out (at least to my much better qualified sibling and brother-in-law), that I wasn’t actually doing anything remotely technical myself. My days of laboriously hand-coding anything … Continue reading
Gender parity: stop talking, start doing…
A couple of weeks ago I joined a pretty amazing group of women from my corporate employer in what was the inaugural meeting of the UK operation’s women’s network, Women in Leadership. We’re a pretty large organisation in the UK (thousands of employees), and our board of directors has made very public its support for … Continue reading
The unbearable lightness of dandelions….
It seems almost incredible that it’s taken this long to get to Spring, but now it’s arrived in our garden it’s come on in a furious rush. The wisteria is framing our bedroom window with sleepy nodding blue, the honeysuckle has over-spilled the trellis-work and sent cascades of pink blooms pouring down towards the lawn, … Continue reading
Is @FT institutionally sexist?
Let me start off by admitting, I’m probably most broadsheet newspapers’ worst type of customer. I almost never pay cover price – the only time I pick up a newspaper in physical form is when I’m given a freebie on a plane, or in a hotel. The rest of the time I piggy-back on my … Continue reading
The art of not saying no….
The estimable Mr Giles Coren (@gilescoren, in case you’re not yet following him on Twitter) tweeted out the latest from his wife’s excellent blog Recipe Rifle this morning – about not losing a sense of perspective when your toddler insists on eating their tea standing up and directly from the pan (as Mr Coren is the … Continue reading
What is it with the anti-intellectual brigade?
Gathering my thoughts on Twitter this morning, I picked up this from the absolutely marvellous Vagenda Magazine: There are a couple of things that bother me about this – Firstly, that Generation Y (and possibly Z, I suppose) women are still just as likely to worry about whether or not their political/philosophical beliefs make them … Continue reading
Where is your banksman? 