Blog of Susannah Quinsee about life, work, parenthood and play
At the beginning of November I committed to blogging daily as part of NaNoWriMo as a way of trying to get myself back in the blogging habit and doing some daily writing. I managed to get to about day 16 Continue reading What happened to blogging?
(Pointless?) Gardening I don’t know much about gardening. Like many things house-related, I’d like it all just to be perfectly ordered and tidy ALL the time, without me actually doing much. And given the state of our house which is Continue reading November 14th
Fridays. Ah Friday! The end of the week. The promise of the weekend beckons. Yay. These are all good things. Fridays should be days of celebration. Or at least a feeling that you close the week on a positive note. Continue reading November 12th
Remembrance day. I was in Birmingham today. This was very exciting! It involved an overnight stay in a hotel, two train journeys, all on my own without smaller family members, a dinner out and then an all day conference. It Continue reading November 11th
I was asked to speak today at UCL’s educational leadership programme, which was a real honour. I was asked to think about what I had learnt as a leader during the pandemic (well we are probably still in the pandemic Continue reading November 10th
10 reasons why I am a school governor/trustee I had a meeting of one of the committees of the Academy Trust of which I am a Director/Trustee tonight so I thought this might be a good opportunity to reflect on Continue reading November 9th
Gunpowder, treason and plot! I love autumn and I love Bonfire Night. I have lots of happy childhood memories of the excitement of going out after dark to stand in a field (well school playground) watching fireworks. Sadly this year Continue reading November 5th
The gift of time. This is a phrase I use a lot. When a meeting finishes early (“you have the gift of time), when a meeting is cancelled etc etc. Its a favourite phrase of mine as its that delicious Continue reading November 4th
Its a new month! My “to do” list for this month will include, as it has done all year “blog regularly”. I have done this with mixed success. I did get into quite a good pattern of blogging roughly weekly Continue reading November 1st