Lordy. Was it really late March when I last posted something here? The good news is that I m now back at work full time, and have been for about two months now. I m even managing to stretch myself a bit putting emotional energy into making more big new things happen. It can be a [ ] The post Fiveishmonthnote Nearly Back Up To Speed appeared first on Leaning Forward .
Hello there. This is a sort of fledgling return back to the world of blogging, after a very very long hiatus. I was first prompted to think perhaps I ought to get back to these things a few weeks ago, when I noticed the Amaryllis (a regular feature of these blog posts in spring) was [ ] The post [Indefinite period of time]-note Product Set texts appeared first on Leaning Forward .
It’s not been the week I’d hoped, it must be said. It’s now just over five weeks since pretty much everything fell apart, and I did my very best impression of Wile E Coyote running off a cliff edge with sheer momentum somehow keeping me going for a while, even though there was nothing [ ] The post Weeknote 13th April Frustrations appeared first on Leaning Forward .
This week my wife summed up the battle between my current health status and my overachiever/imposter-syndrome mindset pretty neatly. “You’ve had more than three weeks of this thing, and you’re nearly down to the point where normal healthy people would consider this ‘relaxing’”. Stopping is proving really hard. Being still is almost intolerable. And I [ ] The post Weeknote 6th May Shoots appeared…
Another short one this week, as I’m still not doing brilliantly. The chap who’s going to be doing our new kitchen has been through the same, and summed up how I feel rather well: “I’ve never had a bug before where I simply couldn’t push on through”. But that’s just the harsh reality right now. I often [ ] The post Weakofbrain-note 30th March appeared first on Leaning Forward .
Hello again. Probably a bit of a short one this week, for reasons that’ll become clear in due course. Once again, I’m largely writing this from bed. I’m definitely doing MILES better than I was this time last week, but I’ve still got very little stamina, and keep having relapses where all I can do [ ] The post Occasionally-less-weaknote 23rd March appeared first on Leaning Forward .
Hello. It’s been a while, hasn’t it? Life’s been beyond busy for the last few months, hence the abject lack of weeknotes, as I’ve been “having a development opportunity” and then some. Along with my colleagues Amit and Stephen, I’ve been doing a job-sharing acting-up kinda thing, where we ve collectively been filling in for the CPTO [ ] The post Weaknote 16th March appeared first on Leaning…
Hello again. I m not alone in being one of the people who s really struggled with keeping weeknotes going recently. Recently . I ve definitely had what one might call An Abundance Of Real Life, both professionally and outside work, and there s not really been the time to sit back and reflect on anything much. I m definitely in [ ] The post 4-monthnote: Honestly, I love change and the unexpected!…
So I m writing this feeling very between . I start as a permanent employee on Tuesday; my contracting life has finished for now. And while the job s technically the same, with the same people and job title, it s also going to be different. The biggest change is that I m going to be starting to think a [ ] The post Weeknote 25th August 2024 Rewiring appeared first on Leaning Forward .
Work update (there is one) OK, so some news. After nearly twelve years of freelancing and contracting, I m going perm. A week from when this gets posted, I ll be taking on the Head of Product role here at Which? as a proper member of staff. I was only ever accidentally a contractor, because when I [ ] The post Weeknote 18th August Time Off (mainly) appeared first on Leaning Forward .