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Random work from home thoughts and musings
Inconspicuous nonconsumption
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20th century success was a highly visible, material affair, consisting of houses, cars, yachts, clothes, jewellery etc. We are now coming to terms with the finite resources left on the planet we have so efficiently depleted, and have to learn to consume less in a more efficient manner.
21st [...]
Podcast progress
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I wrote recently in Unexpected Pleasures about how wonderful it is when something good happens that you haven’t had to work or push for. It’s a salutary reminder that life doesn’t have to be a struggle!
I also love it when out of the blue an answer arrives to a question you have been puzzling [...]
Moving in more ways than one
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It’s been a long haul, but I’m now established in another home office, complete with broadband – yay! When I think about moving house ( which I hope I won’t have to do for a while now) I always think about packing up all our stuff and moving the furniture. If only that was the extent of it. As [...]
I’ll be back…w/c 19 April
02 years ago
It’s unlikely I’ll be posting here until I’ve moved into my new home office, so apologies in advance for the disruption to normal home working service. In the meantime you might like to visit a few of my online friends to fill the gap:
San Sharma is the friendly host of #watercoolermoment every [...]
R.Day-1
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Tomorrow’s the day we move out of this house…and become temporarily homeless and home office-less until the next house is available. We are unfortunately becoming accustomed to moving, but one’s mind mercifully blanks out between times the relentlesss grind of clearing, emptying cupboards and [...]
Unexpected pleasures
42 years ago
A and I have noticed before that it’s amazing what can happen when you let go of trying hard, and go off and do something else entirely. I’ve been doing a lot of work lately on content for the site and articles for other websites and blogs. But with the move coming up next week, like it or not, [...]
Moving house, home…and work
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When you work from home a house move means uprooting your business as well as your home, with the potential for more upheaval and more stress, as we can testify, being on the point of moving for the third time in less than two years.
The part we have come to dread most is not the sorting through [...]
Getting away from the desk
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Tomorrow I’m giving a talk about work/life balance at a training event for translators and interpreters at Bath University, so I’ve been busy with final preparations. I find when rehearsing talks that the worst place to be is at my desk, as somehow it works much better if I move around.
So I’ve [...]
A Meldrew moment
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We’re currently looking for another house to rent in Frome, as our landlords have decided to sell up. It’s not nice having to face the prospect of packing up when you’re happily settled somewhere, but the situation isn’t exactly helped by the attitude of many letting agencies when they ask about [...]
Decisions, decisions
12 years ago
Today I need to take some of my own advice, as outlined in my book about working from home in the chapter on productivity, to decide what to work on first. There are so many things I’d like to get done, preferably now, straightaway, this minute, that it’s hard to plump for one and just [...]
Closed for Christmas
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Last night we arrived home after a short visit to my parents in Lincolnshire. We managed to avoid the traffic hold-ups so many people have experienced due to the cold weather, accidents and number of cars on the road, but it was still an eventful trip.
We left at 7.30 on Monday morning after [...]
Pet hates
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Yet another advantage of working from home is that it’s easier to have people to stay – as long as they understand you do actually work, that is, and aren’t there purely to act as their host and guide.
This week we have had a very easy guest for a couple of nights. My cousin has been judging [...]
