Vera went to Mull

Reading time: 3 mins Back from a glorious week on the beautiful island of Mull, part of the Inner Hebrides, a three hour drive punctuated with a 45 min ferry crossing. It’s our second holiday here with family, the first was in 2022 with a very young boy, a big tent, a night in an Air-BnB, and a night […]

The Accidental BA

Reading time: 4 mins I wrote this piece for the BA Digest, replicating here for posterity. I wasn’t always a Business Analyst. I started my working life as a technical administrator; essentially a technical dogsbody for a small I.T. firm, a bit of database work here, a bit of user documentation there, and it was the latter that took […]

Clearing Out

Reading time: 4 mins I’ve been a bit more active on social media recently, mostly as a way to share thoughts as I go through a variety of processes that all kinda suck but all need done, you know the type, all the adulting paperwork stuff that you just plough through because you have to. The current focus, and […]

Life moves onwards

Reading time: 2 mins Vera, our motorhome, has been an absolute boon this past month or so. We’ve managed to get away a couple of times now, not far but far enough that I can feel the calm release of tension descend upon me as we park up for the night. One advantage of where we live, drive for […]

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Reading time: 3 mins I’m old enough to have acquired some wisdom along the way, or at the very least some life experience, to know that life won’t always be completely shit. When I was younger I used to think my life was kinda shit. Like all young adults I had dreams and aspirations, which of course all stemmed […]

Any photo will do

Reading time: 4 mins When my parents announced they were selling the family home and moving to a flat I can remember the feeling of disbelief that fell on me. Their reasoning was sound, it was a couple of years after my Mum had a stroke and she was struggling to get up and down two flights of stairs […]