Tag Archive | personal
Prioritising
Recent events have put me into a bit of a reflective mode. In trying to adjust to whatever passes for normal life, I’ve been re-evaluating what is really important to me. On a practical level, this has meant crossing lots of things off my to-do list (including the stuff that’s been there forever, that I […]
Personal matters: update
This is an entirely personal post, please skip if you’d rather read my librarian-y stuff. Some of you may know that my mum was diagnosed with cancer last summer (I’ve mentioned it before here and here). I’m sorry to say that just over a week ago, in the early hours of Sunday 17 April, Mum passed […]
3 things I learned in 2010
Inspired by these posts from Justin Hoenke, Bobbi Newman and Daniel Cornwall, I’ve decided to write my own list of lessons learned in 2010. I really like this idea, and hope more people pick it up – I wrote a list of new years resolutions on my blog last year, none of which I’ve really […]
Movin’ on up…North?
Some big news in WoodsieWorld this week… In January, I will be leaving London, packing up and moving up to Yorkshire with my partner! This has been sort-of planned for some time now. Chris, my partner, is from Huddersfield originally, and always planned to go back there sooner or later. The reason it’s sooner is […]
Christmas giving
I don’t normally do this sort of promotional blog post, but I was looking for a charity to make a Christmas donation to and wanted to share this one with anyone else who was thinking of doing the same thing. I wanted to find a small-scale organisation to donate too, someone who perhaps doesn’t have […]
Personal matters: update
Thought I’d post a brief update for anyone who read this post back in August. Feel free to ignore if you don’t know what I’m on about! Mum’s about halfway through the chemotherapy she’s got to have. That’s going about as well as chemo usually does, but I think she’s coping ok. In my last […]
Personal matters
I’ve been debating with myself whether or not I should post something here about this or not. I usually try to keep this blog to professional matters only, but some stuff in my personal life lately has been affecting my professional life, so I thought I’d post a brief explanation of what’s going on with […]
