I might be middle-class now, but I didn’t go to university until I was twenty-four, and up until then I had never eaten an olive. I didn’t even know what hummus was. It was pretty shocking to get to university (actually the former Brighton Poly) and see sports cars in the students’ car park, parked [...]
Posts Tagged ‘professional’
there will be hummus
Sunday, July 15th, 2012the long haul
Sunday, February 12th, 2012I was talking on the phone today with a writer I’ve been mates with for a while. We were talking about how we might find ways to work together in the long-term future. He mentioned how we were both in it for ‘the long haul’, having first met around ten years ago, when he was [...]
what I’ve been up to
Monday, November 14th, 2011My ‘to do’ list is getting scarily long. On it are the names of several people to whom I owe a letter or a phone call or a visit, or all three. If you are one of those people, I’m sorry for being so out of touch. I still love you, even if I don’t [...]
Yikes!
Wednesday, November 9th, 2011Just realised I hadn’t blogged today! Am fixing that right now. Time has just got away from me – was teaching this morning, then spent three hours planning lessons and another two hours catching up on other paperwork, and now I am hungry and I still have to do at least an hour of proper [...]
