What happened this week? A shorter note this week due to time constraints. My planned sprint to half-term felt like a slow crawl. Some highlights: * A high-energy kick-off meeting with the newly-recruited team for our UKRI-funded ATR project. Workshops are being planned. * Cyber security training
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Big Autumn vibes this week with bright, crisp mornings and a significant drop in temperature (apart from one day where it was 20 degrees which felt a bit weird). A deep breathe was needed after a very busy couple of weeks. I'm seeing the next fortnight as a
This note was meant to be shorter as the week was very long. What happened this week? GovCamp Scotland on Monday went well. I enjoyed being on the welcome desk but had to jump into a few meetings and missed the afternoon sessions. Some good vibes overviews here and here.
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A shorter note from a week in which the back-to-school germs hit hard. I was mostly moving at half speed, avoiding the school run and doing very little in the evenings. What happened this week? Monday was a day of catching up and scrubbing items off the to-
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A bit of an epic note from a week which included: a trip to see my parents on the Essex coast, a few days in London, and catch ups with lots of fab people. Most of this was written in the between spaces of cafes and trains. What happened this
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What happened this week? A slightly shorter note this time as I emerge from a recruitment-heavy week. We interviewed for a couple of roles linked to a UKRI-funded project and I then sat on the panel for a Director position, alongside Amina Shah and Dr Jess Gardner from
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Busy, busy. Feeling the pinch of back-to-school organisation with new timetables, devices, and parent briefings. The kids are coping better than we are. The weather is also dipping into Autumn with most of the city being hugged closely by low hanging cloud. In brighter news, we're
What happened this week? A week churning through a growing to-do list, trying to focus on one thing at a time and ticking-off multiple admin tasks. Often the tasks you think will be simple open up a range of further questions and the list expands again. This work
Another shorter week as we headed off for a wedding in Marple, south of Manchester. Lots of stone cottages and rolling hills. This is minus the boy who returned from the Boardmasters festival in Cornwall (via a 14-hour coach journey). Despite saying he isn't really "a
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A strange week with a big focus on exam results. The boy did amazingly well, managing to pull off the perfect ratio of hard work and outcomes for each subject. There's now a bit less pressure on his final year. I was less delighted getting up at 2.
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What happened this week? A day of leave on Monday was spent on a furniture hunt with the girl. We were the first people in Ikea which was fun (for a while). We left with some spoons, a pack of storage tubs and a feeling of nothing being quite right
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A much shorter note from a condensed three-day week. Things are a little quieter at the Library through the Summer (although the noise outside the office is ramping up with the swarm of tourists and street performers). I'm trying harder take some holiday while there's