June was fun-packed with plenty weekends out, the start of Make Life Work S09, an unexpected surge of blog posts about line management and side projects, plenty fitness including the first 10km run in a year and some new EM’s to work with.
Make
- Season 9 of Make Life Work is in full swing; recorded 4 episodes, released Michele Hansen’s and prepared Carlo’s edit
- Struggled with my “Origins” mix – first pass didn’t sound great so need to rethink it how to approach it
- Blogged about finding time for sides, introducing accountability to one-to-ones and outlined an EM Bot Product On A Page
- Some brilliant conversations in On The Side as we celebrated our third birthday
- Added Sub Sub’s Ain’t No Love to The Archive Collection
Life
- Started plans for our wedding vows renewal on our anniversary this year, all to be hosted in our local church and pub
- Thoroughly enjoyed Cambridge Club 2022 festival with Jacksons and Chic headlining alongside Mica Paris and Brand New Heavies
- The Boy completed his first overnight DofE expedition around Southam
- Spent fathers day with dad and the kids around the bbq and shooting hoops
- Cancelled Fibre To The Property installation after realising how complicated it was to the building entrance points and nearest telegraph pole – apparently a common problem for Openreach as providers don’t evaluate conditions thoroughly enough
- Got back into some serious fitness, even ran my first 10km in over a year
Work
- Welcomed EM Jen to our teams, along with my old mate Adrian from the Customer Profile world
- First trip to Birmingham in a while to meet Jen and Tori in person
- Summer afternoon of fun with the whole department in Regents Park – I was caught out on first hit of rounders game but amazing to spend quality time with teams in the searing sunshine
- Said goodbye to line managing Niz, Joel & Guillem but hello to Dean, Doug, Venks & Loukas
- Started outlining a blog post with EMHub about PETALS
- First hybrid Tech Cascade since lockdown, momentous occasion with new CEO Jose kicking things off to some promising initial thoughts
Read
- Spell Or High Water – 2nd in the series of Magic 2.0 by Scott Meyer
- 500 Social Media Marketing Tips, Essential Advice, Hints & Strategy (what a keyword stuffer!) by Andrew Maccarthy
- An Unwelcome Quest – 3rd in the Magic 2.0 series by Scott Meyer