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Life in The Balance

We often hear about how important it is to maintain a healthy work-life balance, but the reality is often far from easy. I am certainly not an expert therapist or profess to be the best person manager in the world …

Setting Standards

Rather ironically there is no standard definition for the word ‘standard’. It can mean any of the following: And even more ironically the term ‘standard’ when used by newspapers (like the Daily Standard etc) refers to the high level of …

Beware the Curly Spider

Anybody scared of spiders? Arachnophobia (check me out!) is high up on the list of the Top 10 things that people are scared of and accounts for between 3-15% of the total population (according to my AI sources). Very few …

Mind the Gap

I have been driving a car since the late 80’s.  On a scale of 1-10 I would say that my driving is an ‘8’.  In all the years I have been driving I have had two minor rear-end shunts (my …

Buckle Up for CISSP!

Following on from my last blog – this year I have decided (and been actively encouraged by my boss!) to get some certs tucked away and so for the past 3 years – it has been a target of mine …

You Can Teach an Old Dog New Tricks!

Every year in the military it was a mandatory requirement to conduct some basic training on some of the fundamental elements of being on active military service.  It was called Ground Defence Training (which probably dates me – as it …