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 …
Tag Archives: working from home
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Update: Poppy’s Progress
For those of you wondering how Poppy was getting on since I last wrote, I thought I’d post a brief …
The Art of Delegating
Back at the beginning of the year, one of my New Year’s resolutions was to finally get myself a cleaner. …
