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December 22, 2025 ·
I knew something was wrong before anyone told me. Sitting in my first one-to-one with a new...
December 21, 2025 ·
Another quiet week, client-wise. I was due to meet up with a potential new client on Wednesday,...
December 15, 2025 ·
Another quiet week, as the slow down for Christmas engulfs the world (or at least the bit that I...
December 9, 2025 ·
Christmas films all have the same shape. You know the one: Conflict rises; Family fractures;...
December 8, 2025 ·
What with it being almost Christmas, and all, work-ish activities are winding down and I’m...
November 30, 2025 ·
A quiet week, but no less busy for that. It gave me the opportunity to take stock of work, life,...
November 24, 2025 ·
I completely re-tagged all 30+ posts on The Ode Map. It was too loose and unstructured, so I...
November 16, 2025 ·
With the GovCamp Cymru event over and done with, it’s now time to do the wrapping up. That means...
November 15, 2025 ·
You open Netflix. Twenty minutes later, you're still scrolling. Nothing feels right. You close...
November 10, 2025 ·
It was a week of two halves. Mon-Thu morning was solo work; Thu afternoon - Sat was spent with...
November 2, 2025 ·
I don’t have a great deal to report this week. I spent most of it either preparing for, or...
October 26, 2025 ·
I spent quite a lot of the first half of the week looking after myself. I was struggling with a...
October 20, 2025 ·
In what felt like a week that dragged somewhat, I got some stuff done. That said, it wasn’t a...
October 12, 2025 ·
This week I’ve been thinking more about marketing and branding (of myself and my business). To...
October 5, 2025 ·
Work-wise, it’s been mainly about rounding off Q3 and finishing prep for Q4. Nothing earth...
September 29, 2025 ·
Work-ish I’ve been checking out various suppliers of: wait lists; referral lists; landing pages...
September 21, 2025 ·
On the creative writing side Wrote and published a number of posts for The Ode MapWrote and...
September 14, 2025 ·
Writing Despite feeling somewhat under the weather last week (or maybe because of it): I wrote...
September 8, 2025 ·
Last week was mostly about meetings, meet-ups and calls. I can’t remember a week in the last 6...
August 31, 2025 ·
Last week was a holiday week. I spent the week in Northumbria with the family, visiting the in...