Like many people, I was hit hard by the pandemic. 2020 started well enough, including a huge two-month project for a Commission. But just days before lockdown, I was let go from the newspaper where I’d been freelance subeditor for some years and all my commercial work got cancelled as the businesses that had booked …
I’ve lost count of the number of work-related webinars I’ve sat through under lockdown - and beyond - but almost all been useful, inspiring or both. And then the annual conference of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading, of which I’m a member, also went online. I’d been looking forward to showing up in …
I’m a bit embarrassed that these days I don’t get around to updating this blog much. It’s mainly because I’m preoccupied elsewhere, so I though it was time to share where you can read some of the other stuff I’ve written of late. Firstly, there’s the other blog - I started The Lone Gourmet in …
