Spring Has Not Sprung
I signed off my last post with a hope for a sunny spring. It promptly snowed more than it has done all this winter, at least in Leith, anyway. On Monday morning we awoke to the powderiest snow I've...
View ArticleNatural Networking
Yesterday was a nerve-wracking first for me.While I've done plenty of public speaking before, yesterday I was faciliating a 2-hour long event for about 50 people on Networking as part of my role as...
View ArticleHave You Ever...
Have you ever, ever felt like this? When strange things happen-Okay, wait, that's the wrong blog start.In our house, whenever someone says, "Have you ever-", either Andrew or I will break into that...
View ArticleTurn around...
In my previous post, I mentioned that I tend to break into song whenever anyone says the words, "Have you ever?", even if that's only in my head (like, if someone says it at work, for example). This...
View ArticleThings I Will Be Doing On My Easter Holidays
I love holidays, especially two week long ones. I will be doing a lot, but not too much, over the next few weeks:1.Some Spring cleaning, despite the stubborn refusal of Spring to actually arrive in...
View ArticleToday I Am...
Do you ever do that thing when you watch a TV programme, and then become convinced that you have whatever it's portraying?It works hypochondriacally, intellectually, and physically. It's like TV...
View ArticleWelcome to the Golden Age
The post title is not sarcasm. It is simply fact. Despite what the gutter press would have you believe, the institution of a welfare state circa 60 years ago has not led to the gradual devolution of...
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The Crockpot
In a previous post, I mentioned that I was going to start using my slow cooker over the Easter holidays. Which I have! So far, I've made three dishes, all from very different parts of the world.The...
View ArticleLabyrinthitis and a Rest
It doesn’t feel like it, but it’s been over a month since my last blog post. Writing doesn’t just write itself, it turns out. I’m not sure why I stopped, but perhaps it had something to do with a...
View ArticleAwkward Questions
It's been another busy few weeks in the Law household. I had the Focused Women (the bank's gender diversity network, of which I am chair in Scotland) annual conference this week, and an Inclusion...
View ArticleCooking for a Diabetic
As Andrew has had some bad news about the progress of his diabetes (sad face), it seems to be about the right time to start eating a little more healthily again.A few weeks ago I was discussing the...
View ArticleCollaging
Have you heard of a site called Polyvore? It’s along similar lines to Pinterest, except instead of just pinning one image at a time, you put images together to make collages, and it's much more about...
View ArticleThe Taste of Victory
When you’re trying hard to balance a proper, grown-up career with the challenge of being a good Mum to two children, sometimes things become a bit overwhelming. It’s easy to feel a bit down-hearted...
View ArticleDon't Pack In Our Children's Packed Lunches
Today a report has been published which calls for the government to consider banning packed lunches.Apparently, parents are providing sub-standard meals, which aren’t as nutritious as the school meals...
View ArticleSister Points
A couple of days ago, I spontaneously awarded Josie 5 Big Sister Points.At the time it was just an off-hand remark, in response to her considerate comforting of her sister when Lori had fallen off her...
View ArticleLet Them Eat Cake
Yesterday, the Coalition government announced, with much triumph, that they would be offering free school meals for all P1-3 children in England. The Coalition are falling over each other to claim...
View ArticleThe Economic Barriers to Adopting Siblings
I was reading an article the other day about adoption and fostering, and I felt it missed a really important point about the economics of fostering and adopting. The article talked about a set of three...
View ArticleA New Adventure in Coding
Learning New Things Games Review , the site that I edit on Hubgarden.com is going quite well, and starting to build some momentum. I'm also building up a library of articles as a writer on Weekend...
View ArticleVictory!
Although Josie and Lori have moved school, I've been keeping in contact with the parents at their old school. That's partially because the girls have friends there, partially because I have friends...
View ArticleSadness and Loss
It's been a very sad week for anyone involved in education in Edinburgh, or anyone who has been aware of the news at all. On Tuesday, Keane Wallis-Bennett died when a wall collapsed at her school,...
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Happy New Year (and a folio of festive food)
What a pleasure it is to cook in my own kitchen and with all my old things that were far too long in storage. Nithsdale has been great for revivifying my culinary creativity this year. I have tried out...
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A Few of my Favourite (Scottish) Things
Burn's Night isn't a very big deal in our house.So far, Lori and Josie have had to learn a few poems, and I have cooked haggis once. That was last year, and I only did it because the girls were...
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Just One Thing!
Andrew was diagnosed with diabetes just before Josie was born, and since then I’ve been experimenting with various ways to make sweet recipes more diabetic-friendly.There are a few different schools of...
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Nostalgic Munchings
I can often be found in the kitchen trying to work out how to recreate the smells and tastes of my childhood in diabetic-friendly form. I think that the things we eat when we are children stick with us...
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A New Year's Resolution of Food
I've decided this year that we'll eat less meat. I know that's not the best way to achieve an objective, just to put it out there as a blanket, unspecific, difficult-to-measure objective, but there we...
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