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Jack’s Mum (my podcast)- Episode 12: Getting a toddler ready for Christmas
- Episode 11: After Covid we're getting on with things
- Episode 10: Covid Is Still Ruining My Plans after Freedom Day
- Episode 9: How Covid Can Still Ruin Your Plans
- Episode 8: Swimming, nursery, sickness, and Covid testing
- Episode 7: Taking a Toddler Out and About
- Episode 6: Self-Care
- Episode 5: Nursery
- Episode 4: Eating
- Episode 3: Sleep
- Medium
- Reflections on my first year as an Avon Representative
- I’m obsessed with Build-A-Bear and I need help
- Making plans after a couple of uncertain years
- One of many posts about The Beastie Boys
- Do I Really Have a Book Inside of Me?
- On losing our last Golden Girl
- Don’t Look Up – a dark comedy with so much more
- How to start 2022 with writing goals
- 2021 Year in Review
- Vinted App Pros (and lots of) Cons
Tag Archives: unemployment
I’m my own boss and other things I’ve accepted
Palace Green @ Durham, England The leaves are changing and Fall is here. That means school is in session and I’m still at my computer. While this use to bother me greatly, I’ve finally accepted that what my job is, … Continue reading
Posted in All About Me, Books, Employment, Library, School, Writing
Tagged ebooks, high school, jobs, publishing, secondary school, self-publishing, substitute teaching, supply teaching, Teaching, unemployment, work
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Those “Lazy” Unemployed People
Newcastle University If I see or hear one more jab about these “lazy,” unemployed people, I’m going to scream! The other day I was talking on Twitter to someone about how we’re now the “moocher class” because all of us, … Continue reading
Posted in All About Me, Employment, Library
Tagged benefits, job, jobs, librarian, teacher, unemployment, welfare, work
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These people have jobs and I don’t?
Olympic banners at Monument Not to name names, of course, but some of these teaching recruitment agencies really drive me nuts. One of the agencies, whom I really got an impression of professionalism and with-it-ness, ends up having the worst … Continue reading
Posted in All About Me, Employment, Review, School, Travel
Tagged agency, England, jobs, Teaching, unemployment, work
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The Tuesday Seven
Coffee break 1. I’ve now finished my second Pretty Little Liars books and numbers three and four are on their way via Amazon. (I still got them out of the library today anyway so I don’t have to wait.) As … Continue reading
Posted in All About Me, Books, Employment, Exercise, Library, Shopping, Technology, Television, Writing
Tagged driving, driving test, Eat Festival, England, Highway Code, London 2012, Newcastle, Olympics, shopping, St. James's Park, tourism, unemployment
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Interviews and Olympics
Olympics display @ the library Here I am, back at my desk, on an overcast Thursday morning. I’m home for once this week since I’d been running around each day for some reason or another. Actually, I’ve been running around … Continue reading
Posted in All About Me, Books, Employment, Exercise, Library, Review, School, Television, Travel, Writing
Tagged career, employment, England, family, interviews, librarianship, life, London 2012, media center, Newcaslte, Olympics, Pretty Little Liars, Sara Shepard, school library, Teaching, u.k., unemployment
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The Tales of Missus P. 