When you are given a brand new team of people to work with it is sometimes hard, they have history, connections, unspoken values and communication pathways all mapped out. You have to negotiate and tread softly until you bed in your power relationships, make the connections that you need and learn who is who. But what if you…
Author: Jenandbobo
Me... basically my favourite things to do are drink wine and eat pasta!!! If I can combine these with travel and my strange ability to end up with the oddest jobs then even better.
I live in a little wooden house that indulges my passion for dark wood floors, vintage chandeliers and a large garden. My partner and I share the house and garden with two elderly cats Lilly and Oscar, three dogs Ollie Bobo, Jack Jack and Mistress and a hive of bees.
Missing my family
I am missing my family…. I know that really goes without saying and it is probably really a rather boring sentiment especially when I haven’t even really gone any-were yet. I am only a 1 hour flight away from home, Monday – Thursday I live the single life then Friday, Sat and Sunday night I get to climb…
Dress ups
I got to play dress-ups today in the clothing store, one of my favourite parts of getting ready to go South….. there are fur lined goose down jackets, big gloves and beanies, goggles and boots. It’s mind boggling to see all the clothes hung up like the biggest walking robe you have ever seen. It’s pretty…
Making great Grandma’s Christmas pud
I have been entrusted with great Grandma Edna’s Christmas pudding recipe. One night at my parents house my mother pulled a carefully folded piece of yellowed paper out of a zip lock bag were it had been kept safe for years. Spidery writing in slightly faded blue ink coated a little piece of fine writing paper front and back handing…
Packed for Antarctica
I couldn’t put it off any longer this weekend I had to flash the plastic and buy 10 months worth of hairspray, conditioner, moisturiser, toothpaste, toothbrushes etc etc etc……. the list went on and on and on. At the supermarket I chickened out off my original plan; the no shampoo / conditioner scenario and hedged…
Adventures with pork
When I first moved to Saudi Arabia I tried to be a vegetarian for a little while, I even toyed with veganism before finally settling for being a pescatarian. It was a choice based on my inability to purchase free-range, non halal slaughtered meat as well as a growing discomfort with actually eating the flesh of a sentient…
Communication is easier to say then do
Communication is an art form and those people who seem to effortlessly raise and discuss difficult topics while causing minimal angst or offence have always been slightly awe inspiring to me. There are several different types of conversation but I dread most are those conversations that you know you should have, the ones were the outcome is…
Squealing quietly in week one………..
Feels weird that after 2 years waiting I am finally sitting in an office with Station Leader written on the door, I really have never thought that this time would come. I still remember the evening that I rang my now employer and asked if I had been successful, every-one else who had been in our…
Jen Wressell 