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Continue reading →: Overland to Eastern Europe: Birmingham to Zurich
18 April 2017: Birmingham-London-Paris-Zurich (everybody talk about pop muzik) It feels great to have the world in my backpack again and leave all responsibilities behind. Leaving is, as usual, hell. I feel a huge sense of lightness and relief to be on Bournville’s Dairy Milk purple platform. Staring out of the window. Why…
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Continue reading →: Balkans overland trip brings introspection
Well, at least I went to the Balkans… Despite bemoaning the lack of a big tickbox item on my sabbatical last month, I have actually been planning a small ‘big trip’ since January and last month it happened – a two-week, snow-to-sun, mountain-to-sea, 2,000-mile overland trip via eight countries to Eastern Europe. It featured…
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Continue reading →: Six-month therapeutic confessional sabbatical check-in post
Six months have passed since I started my inadvertent sabbatical. There are no fireworks or big announcements or even possibly any major achievements by most sabbatical standards. In fact, this may be the most boring sabbatical story you’ll ever read and here’s why… When you work eight hours a day, you think…
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Continue reading →: From surrealism to Roman emperors in the bath
This may be a more relaxed post than usual because… Saturday night rioja and dreamy Max Berlin on the stereo. I feel good. The screen break is currently going very well indeed. Here’s what happened in February: Practical – admin is on the backburner at last mainly because of setting up a…
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Continue reading →: Sabbatical in full swing of lying in, coffee dates, protests and trip planning
I am finally relaxing into this screen break, sabbatical, time-out thing. Work decisions have been made (will be picking up freelance work again from April) and I’m not beating myself up about having lie-ins until lunchtime occasionally. Although there are a lot of things listed below, I’ve generally been living a bit more slowly and less…
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Continue reading →: ‘Everything does change, something is happening’
After last month’s anxiety about the myth of free time and not getting much done, I had a rethink and reduced my ‘stuff I want to do’ list. There may still have been a spreadsheet. I had a lot more chilling out time thanks to Pete rescuing me from evening-working and getting…
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Continue reading →: The myth of free sabbatical time
I’ve promised myself I’ll blog my sabbatical once a month and looking back at November I’ve surprised myself with how little I’ve achieved given that I’m only working 1-2 days a week and that Pete is away on a residency. Time really is an illusion. I thought giving up work would…
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Continue reading →: Understanding the world through rabbits
For the first time since we got rescue rabbits nearly four years ago and started on our journey to understanding these surprisingly complex animals, we finally had some major breakthroughs this week and, as usual, I’m viewing the world through them. The thing about rabbits is… they are small, prey animals at the…
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Continue reading →: Day 30: The end of the beginning
My 30 days of blogging about the transition into a sabbatical is theoretically ending today, which is kind of ironic as I feel I’ve barely started winding down let alone begun, and annoyingly there is no one to invoice for all the work and admin. Maybe it’ll all make sense in retrospect in the way…
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Continue reading →: Day 29: Saturdays
Cleaning to music, coffee shop chats, charity shop mooch with sis, cruising to Big City Radio, a bargain buy (Les Liaisons Dangereuses, 99p), hanging with the bunsters, eating nice foods with Pete, watching funnies on the tellybox, writing to my starred music playlist, and finishing with a hot deep bubble bath. Saturdays…
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