Summertime...

If only, eh?

My children finish school on Friday until 5th September. Oh, but I were young again and to have six weeks off!

However, it does pose me a problem in terms of working hours. Helpfully, my son has refused to go to a summer school my daughter wanted to enrol on so it's unlikely I will have a week free to concentrate on work.

That said, I will be still be working over the Summer holidays although my capacity will be reduced. Clients on retainer packages will be unaffected, but turnaround for pay-as-you-go customers may be slightly longer than normal.

I do value your custom and hope that you will bear with me over the summer. If you do have an urgent requirement that you'd like to fulfil, please get in touch as early as possible.

Enjoy the holidays and hopefully, we will actually have a Summer starting around about now!

The joys of being a work from home mum

So, my children were home today because of the strike.When you work from home,such events don't mean you have to pay for extra childcare but it does mean that you might not be able to do any chargeable work because you have children to look after or entertain.

However, I did have some work that I really had to get done so I picked up my laptop and tried to crack on, leaving me the rest of the day to spend with the children.

So, there I was, tapping away on my laptop, surrounded by bits of paper (I am not a tidy worker) when my son came to ask if we could go somewhere and do something. I replied no, not now, but maybe later. He looked at me scornfully and said,

"Well, if you stopped messing around on the Internet, we could do something now."

and stomped off.

So, there you have it, what I do is "messing around on the Internet."

Nice to know my kids really appreciate the work I do.