Yesterday, talk turned to the AV vote – as obviously I am about to get my first taste of local democracy/national democracy in action in our local government elections. As a result of this, we’re all also in Purdah, which means we can’t say or do or retweet anything at all even remotely political. WellRead… Read more »
This is another entirely random ‘what if?’ post. I freely admit that not the right amount of serious considered intellectual thought has gone into this. But. What if, right, we all rotated Chief Executives every few years or so? I can’t quite remember how it started and finding the conversation would be difficult, but IRead… Read more »
I’m not sure if I am still allowed to say where I work but what the hell. The Local Government Chronicle 50 has made me smile, made me go ‘oh wow’ and made me so epically proud to work for Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council. I was proud before. I’ve said it before a longRead… Read more »
I work in local government. Apparently, this makes me: lazy unsuitable for to work in the private sector ever again guaranteed not to be accepted onto temping agency books looked down upon by private sector colleagues in the same job roles behind the times incapable of maintaining my own self development incapable of keeping upRead… Read more »
I remember still the smell of Bunsen burners, the noise, the rickety stands holding glass vials above the flames, and the worn, scarred initialled benches we all worked on in our Science lab. It was in science that I learnt something I didn’t know I didn’t know. I learnt to quantify and focus on theRead… Read more »
Twitter is quite broken. It begs an interesting question, really. What on earth did we all do before it came along? People are messaging me and I can’t see the messages. I worry it makes me seem rude. I am missing all the retweets of all the interesting stuff that I would normally retweet onRead… Read more »
I’m struggling with something at the moment. I might be the only one. But I figured if I don’t post I wont find out. I don’t know how to judge my own success at my job. There, I’ve said it. In my old post, I had clear targets and objectives. I knew what I neededRead… Read more »
This is a post about my boyfriend. It’s also a post inspired by Matthew Taylor’s recent blog post on the RSA site about ingenuity. I think differently. But so does my boyfriend. And we are not the same and it’s not just biological or temperamental. It’s literally, a different way of thinking differently. I don’tRead… Read more »
Some people think Blackburn is a bit of a trailblazer on the social media side of things. I’d much rather people looked to Kirklees when handing out such accolades. However, what I do think I can comment on, what I do think I am qualified to comment on, is the state of social media inRead… Read more »
This is a pitch/idea shaping exercise/idea bounce/is this really a good idea post. Firstly some disclaimers. I didn’t study law. The closest I came was studying a module at university for my HND in Business and Finance (no I don’t have a degree, yes I am looking at rectifying that, possibly, yes it might beRead… Read more »