I’m doing pretty well in the sweep so far! 🌮 🏆
Woot, my knee-jerk don’t-overthink-it pub-quiz answer was Iran which seems to be [✓]. I ‘knew’ it was more populous than…
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Oscar Bingo
Amy made pink and green popcorn! We also have bingo cards and a random sweep cards. We just had a political comment, so all I need is someone to raise an Oscar into the air! 🏆
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Oscars Red Carpet
Amy made TOOT and BOOT signs for reviewing the red carpet. We differed on our feelings towards Cynthia Erivo’s dress. 👗
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Oscars Party
We’re hosting an Oscars lunch party today so felt we needed to dress appropriately. #iloveyou #iknow
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Weisswurst Frühstück
There’s still a lot to do in the garden – getting the proper outdoor furniture, painting the downpipes, covering the AC unit, hooking up the water feature, actually planting PLANTS – but we still managed our first outdoor Weisswurst Frühstück in a very long time today. ❤️🍻🥨
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Non-Cooperation Brick
A knitting pattern for when you really feel the urge to throw something against the wall, like when the supposed leader of the free world sides with dictators and fascists and insults a brave man fighting for his people’s freedom. 🤬 Oh, and it’s free. Bonus.
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Pressure Cooker Lamb and Barley Stew with homemade bread
Not really a summer dish, but very tasty! Rodd’s best loaf of bread yet…
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GPN Tutor Practice Party
I went along today to the tutor practice session for next week’s Girls Programming Network event. The last time I volunteered with them was pre-pandemic, and it’s amazing to see how far they’ve come! But damn, at one point I realised I was literally 20+ years older than the next oldest volunteer. It feels like yesterday I was the youngest person on the dev team, and now I’m an elder stateswoman. When did THAT happen?!?
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Board roles
I recently changed my LinkedIn profile to say that I’m Open to Board Roles, and a few recruiters picked up on that #opentowork photo frame immediately. No, I’m not looking to go back to work! Still very happily retired. 😄 I am specifically only interested in board roles, and there’s no way to flag that without also putting up that photo frame.
Being on a board is something I’ve been thinking about for several years, after a mentor raised it as a potential career path for me. There’s a real lack of tech industry experience and tech skills on my boards, and women are also woefully underrepresented. I have considered doing the AICD course, but yowza! it’s expensive to do just in the hopes of getting a paid board role someday. I had coffee with a friend recently who’s on several boards, and she advised that the course isn’t needed right away if I start by aiming for non-profit, volunteer roles. And right now, my focus is very much on doing whatever I can to make the world a better place.
If you have no idea what being on a board actually entails – because I certainly didn’t! – Anil Dash has a great article about it.
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Licensed fanfic
I discovered recently that the Roald Dahl Story Company has officially started commissioning new books “inspired by” Dahl’s characters. I guess there are only so many ways you can repackage the few books he wrote, and the next logical step is to start churning out official fanfic. It’s just another of their decisions in recent years that I find a bit disappointing…
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