This section captures random thoughts as well as project updates and data capture – you never know when you might need something you noticed months ago….
Field Notes
Disentangling
My lovely husband and I have spent the last couple of weeks sorting out the ...
Reorganisation by design
Starting back at the DCN conference I’ve been talking about design a lot as I ...
The why I still blog blog…..
I’ve been really touched by the comments I’ve had on LinkedIn about as well as ...
CFGS: Opportunity Knocks
This is an overview of the keynote speech that I gave at the CFGS conference. ...
Democratic dreams
Another post with some dreams – very much from a personal perspective and as someone ...
Devolution by design
Speaking very personally, I’m living with the tension between being passionately up for both local ...
Digital dreams
In my other start of the year post I talked about some of my democratic ...
Setting up 2025
I’m having a slightly unusual start to the year as my husband and I (along ...
Week (ish) notes
I’ve been on holiday* and have used some of the time to catch up on ...
AI musing – time to get engaged
Having said goodbye to social media (sort of) and having largely bypassed the data hype ...










