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The importance of communicating (and more drones)

Thank you very much to all who contributed the 10 posts in week 17. I am going to start this summary by mentioning the post that I think must have been the toughest to write. Kirsty Bowie wrote about the

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Love, love, love – and some leadership

All together now… It was Valentine’s Day the day after Weekly Blog Club’s Week 6 ended, and the posts of the week anticipated it with lots of love in the air. Mark Wood wrote about his love of photography that

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Looking forward, facing up, going on

I’m starting the Week 2 summary with the final contribution of that week. Mrs Malaprop and Mr Waugh, Karen Hart’s beautifully written post, is well worth a read. She has just lost her father and wrote about the arranging of the

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Rays of Humanity

Ewan Kelly talks about aspects of working in healthcare which continue to keep him motivated and insprired even through the toughest of times. This includes observing courage, humour and human interaction. Ewan blogs about the rays of humanity which may

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A talking elk, a turtle, and powerful motivation

Having been without my computer during Week 37, I got it back, mended with a new hard drive and fresh Operating System, and then I had days of getting all the other software I need back onto it during Week

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Careers, kids and having it all

A very personal blog this week from Nicola Davies who writes about giving up her much loved career as she tried to juggle work, children and her own expectations. Nicola has since gone on to continue to make her career

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A Brief History of my Name

This week Karl S Green blogs about his name, and shares where it came from and how special it is to him, and how it is important to a person’s sense of identity. Karl does leave us guessing what the S

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Excuses & Being A Good WAG

Hannah Chia has been too busy to blog recently, when she has not been self-censoring. She tells us what she has been up to recently. Excuses & Being A Good WAG by Hannah Chia (aka @SportingWag)

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Work, babbies, campervans and life. Part 1

By Darren Caveney The older I get the more chilled I become about many a thing. I’m comfortable in my middle-aged skin, recognise my flaws but we co-exist quite happily. I have a job, so I am one of the

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Our Little Rocket

To celebrate World Autism Awareness Day on 2nd April, Shropshire Family Information Service shared a poem written by a mum about her newly diagnosed Autistic daughter, sharing what it is like to be a parent to an Autistic child and

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