Blog of Susannah Quinsee about life, work, parenthood and play
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
Second Friday round-up, second time late, oh well, it is nearly Friday again so I might do better next week! This week was about play as I was preparing for my playful learning session which gave me the opportunity to Continue reading Friday round-up: 19th June
In preparation for being on the Best of Both Worlds podcast, I did a lot of thinking. Ok so I probably over prepared! But anyway, the result is that I did produce quite a helpful list of things I had Continue reading Pandemic productivity
I was really honoured to be interviewed for this podcast a few weeks ago. I discovered Laura Vanderkam about a year ago after listening to a Peter Bregman Leadership podcast and then went on to read some of her books. Continue reading Best of both worlds podcast
I had a coaching session this week and slightly unexpectedly we started to talk about resilience and self-confidence. Whilst I feel that I am pretty resilient, I do lack self confidence and have noticed that this has become acute at Continue reading Resilience and self-confidence in a pandemic
I’m writing this late which isn’t great for my blogging intentions, but at least I am writing it! It has been a week of sunshine and showers, literally and metaphorically. The glorious weather broke which meant a change in tempo, Continue reading Friday round-up: 12th June
So with my newly revived blog I thought it would be a good habit to get into posting regularly and Friday seems a good day to do it now that I work on Fridays. This week has been a rollercoaster Continue reading Friday round-up: 5th June 2020