A few weeks ago, I wrote about the evolving answer to the question: What are you learning? that I received from a good friend at the start of the year. A few weeks in, I can say that things have moved forward on the learning padel front. I first had a lesson approximately two years ago and was very lucky to have a 1-1 session with the coach that I received. Last week, I went back and had another 1-1 session with an equally supportive coach. I knew this time I needed to get my

Love it or hate it, or never tried one because you think they're for older people...I recently returned from my second Norwegian Fjords cruise. The first was pre-pandemic with a different company. Every now and then I do embark on this kind of downtime as I have a parent that has a penchant for cruises. Whilst some parts of it were challenging - service was not as good as previously and it was half term meaning that a significant figure of the 4000 or so passengers were young

This question popped up early in the year, and it really stuck with me. Partly because learning and studying are big parts of a portfolio career, and also because it's just such a great question! I'm pretty sure that specific learning will become a focus in one of my six-week blocks. I've been brainstorming something formal for this year, but I'm not quite there yet. So, this post is about how learning shows up in different ways and what I've noticed since I got asked this qu

Given that 12 weeks is a long time for this kind of experiment, I have decided to try and break this down into 4 lots of 3-week updates, with this being the first. The nature of this block is allowing for the overlaps, whilst maintaining focus. The Anchor Let's go back to the last update. I said I was slightly behind on organizing my 'homework' activities. This too can be broken down into sub-categories: Life Admin Organizing things at home for optimization in the future Fam