Blog of Susannah Quinsee about life, work, parenthood and play
The week started with Mike’s birthday which ended up not quite being the celebration we had hoped due to a rather unfortunate blockage in our drains. Suffice to say that although we hadn’t planned much for Mike’s actual day, dealing Continue reading Friday round-up: 16th October
Getting into the school-working at home routine now which is good if not intense! Reminded again about how much you can achieve with a concentrated block of time at your desk during the day. I got around to restarting my Continue reading Friday round-up: 9th October
What a grand title for a blog post! I’ve had an item on my to do list for, well months really, a while to do a reflection about what I have learnt about leadership during the pandemic. I guess the Continue reading Leadership in a global pandemic
I went back to the University campus for the first time in four and half months yesterday. I was quite apprehensive about it to be honest, just getting in the building, how it would feel, would I feel safe, what Continue reading Reflections from being on-campus
Been thinking about how different our weekends are now to in the world of Before (Covid-19). Then, I would start thinking about what we would be doing during the week, there would be an assortment of things on the calendar Continue reading Weekends now….
I really wanted to increase my writing and focus on my research outputs this year and to some extent I have achieved that. Although I have not had lots of articles published they are in process and I feel I Continue reading SEDA CPD Report: 2019-2020: Why I did it
I’m taking the “actions” outlined at the end of my report from last year as a start to my reflection. Despite the pandemic I have not really edited these substantially just reframed in terms of timeline So here are my Continue reading SEDA CPD Report 2019-2020: What I did
Well that is two weeks in a row that we have achieved “freewheel Friday”, albeit this week with 4/6 of the family as just Mike, me, Sylvia and Isaac went out on a bike ride. Which actually was rather lovely Continue reading Friday round-up: 3rd July
This weekend marked 100 days in lockdown. I’m not sure we really “celebrated” that much (other than a bit of a lockdown squabble!). I was wondering what to blog about for 100 days and rather than lessons learnt (not sure Continue reading 100 days in lockdown
Hurrah! The pandemic planning lethargy is over! A couple of weeks ago I decided that despite the uncertainty and lack of ability to go to many places, we did actually need some plans as a family and we could actually Continue reading Friday round up: 26th June