Category: NEW START

  • Bloganuary #15

    Bloganuary #15

    What fear have you conquered? I’m sure that there are many over my lifetime, but the one that first came to mind was leaving home at age 18 and moving to Leicester to start my Engineering sponsorship. It was effectively my first “real” job in industry, I was meeting new people (including the only girl…

  • Bloganuary #9

    Bloganuary #9

    What is the most memorable gift you have received? I have been so busy with my work on-line today that this is a very late response to the daily prompt. I was struggling with this initially because I didn’t want to just list all the wonderful physical presents that I have received throughout my life…

  • Let’s try again for 2023!

    Christmas dinner – 2003 Well lots has changed since then hasn’t it! Except one thing stays the same – I am still rubbish at keeping a regular diary, blog or any sort of record about what has been going on. Still, after much soul-searching I have decided to give it just one more try, so…

  • 2022 – Regular Blog (FAIL!)

    2022 – Regular Blog (FAIL!)

    OK, so my start-up post on 3 January 2022 where I was thinking about a schedule to which I could manage a regular blog post was a little overambitious! However, just to test whether I could write a blog regularly, I did take part in the WordPress bloganuary challenge to write a post everyday during…

  • 2022 – Starting Afresh

    2022 – Starting Afresh

    I’ve been thinking for a while about setting up a new blog to record my thoughts, fun things I have done, aspirations for the future & the odd memory from the past. So why will this be a NEW blog? Well for one I am going to write on a regular schedule – Daily (no…