The Great British Holiday – back to the good old days?
This year has been a strange year in many respects, not least the sudden curtailment of everyone’s travel plans. As …
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Holiday time – or not going away
I should have been on holiday, this week – in Austria, in our all-time favourite hotel to be specific, in …
Mind Matters
Eleven weeks and counting into lockdown, it’s more important than ever to look after our mental health. I’m aware that …
My life in lockdown – 10 weeks on
Everyone has a different take on the lockdown experience. None of us knew what to expect when lockdown was announced …
What a difference a month makes…
What a different world we live in now to just over a month ago, when I wrote my last post …
Freelancing when you’re ill – a double-edged sword?
I recently retweeted a fabulous in-house job offer for a translator in a large international scientific organisation in Geneva, saying …
Dear Dragon…
As you may (or may not) be aware, I’m a long-time user of your speech recognition software. I first started …
A decade in retrospective
Having spent yesterday taking down the Christmas decorations and giving the house a deep-clean before the first full working week …
What a palaver – why changing computer is not for the faint-hearted
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I’m really not particularly technologically-minded. Yes, I can use Word, Excel …
London calling…
Unusually for me as a home-based freelancer, I made two trips up to London last week: the first to attend …
