Ewan
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Reading Michael Barber's 'Instruction to Deliver' which has lots of good stuff in it, but this caught my eye:
"You have to have a long term strategy but unless it delivers short term results no one will believe you"
"You have to have a long term strategy but unless it delivers short term results no one will believe you"
October 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Reading Michael Barber's 'Instruction to Deliver' which has lots of good stuff in it, but this caught my eye:
"You have to have a long term strategy but unless it delivers short term results no one will believe you"
"You have to have a long term strategy but unless it delivers short term results no one will believe you"
Snapped a Comma just now! The Peacock appears to have moved on!
July 18, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Snapped a Comma just now! The Peacock appears to have moved on!
Much obliged to this gatekeeper for letting me take a pic, unlike the peacock who fluttered off.
July 18, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Much obliged to this gatekeeper for letting me take a pic, unlike the peacock who fluttered off.
I guess that it may be recorded that way somewhere? But also: researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CB...
July 1, 2025 at 10:05 AM
I guess that it may be recorded that way somewhere? But also: researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CB...
This sent me down a rabbit hole this evening, which ended with me finding this blog and the following quote, which I will now be rolling out to colleagues with annoying frequency:
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
June 17, 2025 at 10:03 PM
This sent me down a rabbit hole this evening, which ended with me finding this blog and the following quote, which I will now be rolling out to colleagues with annoying frequency:
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Chives are well under rated as a garden flower.
May 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Chives are well under rated as a garden flower.
I thought this graph from www.bea.gov/news/2025/gr... was interesting on US inflation today. The downturn is almost entirely driven by a huge uptick in imports.
April 30, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I thought this graph from www.bea.gov/news/2025/gr... was interesting on US inflation today. The downturn is almost entirely driven by a huge uptick in imports.
The latest data on graduate earnings are here. explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statist...
April 4, 2025 at 11:12 PM
The latest data on graduate earnings are here. explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statist...
Lots of people yesterday was quoting the bit of the FT where some finance person was saying "oh no, Trump's bad, how could we ever have known" (I paraphrase). And as strange a quote as that was, it's this bit of the article that caught eye
February 16, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Lots of people yesterday was quoting the bit of the FT where some finance person was saying "oh no, Trump's bad, how could we ever have known" (I paraphrase). And as strange a quote as that was, it's this bit of the article that caught eye
Good bit in the book I'm reading on Christmas traditions.
"Bishop Pacian of Barcelona wrote a short treatise condemning [the act of dressing up as stags on New Years Day]...
"Bishop Pacian of Barcelona wrote a short treatise condemning [the act of dressing up as stags on New Years Day]...
December 29, 2024 at 8:32 AM
Good bit in the book I'm reading on Christmas traditions.
"Bishop Pacian of Barcelona wrote a short treatise condemning [the act of dressing up as stags on New Years Day]...
"Bishop Pacian of Barcelona wrote a short treatise condemning [the act of dressing up as stags on New Years Day]...
Pleased to say the kids take health and safety seriously. They left this helpful information poster for Father Christmas last night.
December 25, 2024 at 8:43 AM
Pleased to say the kids take health and safety seriously. They left this helpful information poster for Father Christmas last night.
For the first time ever I made royal icing for the Christmas cake rather than shop bought fondant. Hasn't set hard quite as I was expecting. Have double checked the recipe. I used 4 tablespoons of lemon juice, not 4 teaspoons. Zingy.
December 22, 2024 at 10:50 AM
For the first time ever I made royal icing for the Christmas cake rather than shop bought fondant. Hasn't set hard quite as I was expecting. Have double checked the recipe. I used 4 tablespoons of lemon juice, not 4 teaspoons. Zingy.
Christmas Traditions. Mine is, when we're doing Christmas at home, I steal a sheet of the children's A3 sugar paper and make a meal plan for the week. I keep them (and Xmas day cooking times on the reverse). They're now oddly precious to me.
December 20, 2024 at 10:43 PM
Christmas Traditions. Mine is, when we're doing Christmas at home, I steal a sheet of the children's A3 sugar paper and make a meal plan for the week. I keep them (and Xmas day cooking times on the reverse). They're now oddly precious to me.
Someone's recruiting hard.
December 17, 2024 at 5:30 PM
Someone's recruiting hard.
