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The 1 hack every Gmail user needs to know

Adding a +[tag] into your email addresses can make your inbox a lot less cluttered.

Au revoir Australia, bonjour Brussels

We’ve got some pretty big news to share

What I’ve learned from learning to crochet

I’ve just re-learned to crochet and it taught me some broader lessons.

Making time to get stuff done

Block time in your calendar to get things done.

Holding good meetings to make good decisions

Thinking about what goes on in your meetings goes a long way to making better decisions.

This week, a year after I started, I got my Certificate of Engagement from IAP2 Australasia. The course has been a whirlwind trip through the IAP2 approach to public participation and engagement, which has definitely made me think more carefully about how to engage with people in a meaningful way, as I move through theContinue reading “Certificated!”

Handling email overload

Email is a blessing and a curse. Here are my tips for keeping it manageable.

Fancy a free dog coat?

You may know that I have two beautiful doggies. Although we are in Australia, it gets pretty cool in the winter and we have found that they sometimes need a little coat to keep them warm, especially at night. Roxy, as half whippet, half border-collie, is deeper-chested that most dogs, but stockier than most whippets.Continue reading “Fancy a free dog coat?”

Connecting through COVID

A laptop with lots of people on a Zoom call, alongside a coffee mug

It’s not a unique insight to say that one of the casualties of COVID has been social connection within teams. The team I lead at the moment has had a particular challenge because we underwent a restructure during COVID. While less than ideal, there were a number of reasons that meant I couldn’t delay. SoContinue reading “Connecting through COVID”

Announcing the knitting stitch library

One of the key building blocks of knitting is stitch patterns. Every sweater, blanket, sock, dog coat, whatever, has at its heart one or more stitch patterns – combinations of purls, knits, yarn overs, slips, knit togethers and all the other knitting elements, that make a pattern. These can go from the very simple –Continue reading “Announcing the knitting stitch library”