It's exactly a year since I started blogging, since I gave up my job and started working full time for Children Unite. So, time for a little reflection which I think will be in the form of an interview with myself ...courtesy of The Guardian newspaper's Q & A which I read religiously every weekend.
So, the following answers concern my last year...
What is your most embarrassing moment?
Putting my hand up when I was part of a 'panel' at a meeting in rural Nepal to say that I needed the toilet (rather than having some interesting comment to make to the group of 50 people attending). I was pretty desperate by then though.
What would your super-power be?
Being able to sync my mobile phone calendar with my computer calendar without every appointment coming up twice and others disappearing altogether.
What is your greatest fear?
Having to pay an enormous tax bill because I worked out my national insurance contributions and tax wrong.
What is your favourite word?
Clarity (NB not charity!)
What is your guiltiest pleasure?
Quite a few of those...watching Downton Abbey (TV drama in the UK that follows the lives of domestic servants and their masters/mistresses at the turn of the century). Also planning holidays around my work trips (trekking in Nepal for example).
Who would you invite to your dream dinner party?
The cast of Downton Abbey to discuss which of them would like to speak at Children Unite's launch event.
What skill would you most like to have?
To be able to make a decision and stick with it instead of constantly re-visiting it and wondering if it's the right one.
What words do you most overuse?
Since August (when I went to Scotland) I've been saying 'ah thunk ut's time ah poot ma perrrrsonal stereoh ohn' (which is supposed to be 'I think it's time I put my personal stereo on' in a Scottish accent). Very irritating to listen to more than once I'm sure.
So, the following answers concern my last year...
What is your most embarrassing moment?
Putting my hand up when I was part of a 'panel' at a meeting in rural Nepal to say that I needed the toilet (rather than having some interesting comment to make to the group of 50 people attending). I was pretty desperate by then though.
What would your super-power be?
Being able to sync my mobile phone calendar with my computer calendar without every appointment coming up twice and others disappearing altogether.
What is your greatest fear?
Having to pay an enormous tax bill because I worked out my national insurance contributions and tax wrong.
What is your favourite word?
Clarity (NB not charity!)
What is your guiltiest pleasure?
Quite a few of those...watching Downton Abbey (TV drama in the UK that follows the lives of domestic servants and their masters/mistresses at the turn of the century). Also planning holidays around my work trips (trekking in Nepal for example).
Who would you invite to your dream dinner party?
The cast of Downton Abbey to discuss which of them would like to speak at Children Unite's launch event.
What skill would you most like to have?
To be able to make a decision and stick with it instead of constantly re-visiting it and wondering if it's the right one.
What words do you most overuse?
Since August (when I went to Scotland) I've been saying 'ah thunk ut's time ah poot ma perrrrsonal stereoh ohn' (which is supposed to be 'I think it's time I put my personal stereo on' in a Scottish accent). Very irritating to listen to more than once I'm sure.
