Food, glorious food
Way back at the end of last year, Sue Fortescue, my colleague and co-admin for the Foodie Translators group on …
Category Archives: Work/life balance
Ten Good Things about Lockdown
As we here in England look forward to emerging from this second period of lockdown next week, albeit into only …
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 …
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 …
Poppy’s Tale
Please indulge me: this post isn’t anything to do with language per se (unless dog body language counts?!), but the …
Out with the old – in with the new
A very belated Happy New Year! And humble apologies for the two months’ silence since my last blog post. In …
It never rains but it pours…
I was going to call this blog post “Best laid plans”, but as things got progressively worse last week, I …
When you know you’re working too hard….
An extremely busy spell since Christmas, if not before, turning down job offers left, right and centre, and struggling to …
