Weeknote for week ending Friday 3 January 2020

{% include weeknotes_2020_intro.html %} * I’ll publish these on a Friday every week. I’ll try not to make them too worky. There’s more to life than work, work doesn’t define me, work it girlf— Stop, Si. * There didn’t seem to be too much rain this

Running in 2019

A year back I did _a little_ planning for the new year. I am not a new year resolutions kinda person so they were less resolutions, more keep up some good habits. Overall I did pretty alright over the year. One of the things for 2019 I noted was to

Run notes for November 2019, week 5

Monday 25 November to Sunday 1 December Total kilometres ran in 2019 before the start of the week: 1347 kilometres Month by month distance recorded in my little tracking spreadsheet. Feel free to follow me on Strava, where all my activities are shared. The week in summary One of those

Run notes for November 2019, week 4

Monday 19 November to Sunday 24 November Total kilometres ran in 2019 before the start of the week: 1330 kilometres Month by month distance recorded in my little tracking spreadsheet. Feel free to follow me on Strava, where all my activities are shared. The week in summary Just two runs.

Run notes for November 2019, week 3

Monday 11 November to Sunday 18 November Total kilometres ran in 2019 before the start of the week: 1292 kilometres Distance recorded in my little tracking spreadsheet. Feel free to follow me on Strava, where all my activities are shared. The week in summary Following the leg pain from the

Run notes for November 2019, week 2

Monday 4 November to Sunday 10 November Total kilometres ran in 2019 before the start of the week: 1268.4 kilometres Distance recorded in my little tracking spreadsheet. Feel free to follow me on Strava, where all my activities are shared. Monday A day resting from running. Spend most of

Run notes for November 2019, week 1

Friday 1 November to Sunday 3 November Total kilometres ran in 2019 before the start of the week: 1250.6 kilometres Distance recorded in my little tracking spreadsheet. Feel free to follow me on Strava, where all my activities are shared. Friday 1 November On Friday I wrote my run

Run notes for October 2019

Where I was coming into September Running target for 2019: 1092 kilometres Total distance ran coming into September: 1149 kilometres (57 kilometres over my target for the year) Recorded in my little tracking spreadsheet. Feel free to follow me on Strava, where all my activities are shared. How September 2019

Weeknote for weeks 40 and 41 of 2019, 30 September to 13 October

What it’s been a fortnight of follows. Quite a few catch ups with friends and old work acquaintances. Some face to face, some remotely. It’s good to talk about stuff that isn’t work, the other stuff in life. It’s good to have what you are doing

The service experience

The doctor prints the prescription. “There’s two options on this prescription. Both are OK but I’d prefer you have the second option – but the system won’t let me print just that second option. If you explain to the pharmacist they’ll be OK.” --- The prescription is

Run notes for September 2019

Where I was at the end of the previous month, August 2019 Running target for 2019: 1092 kilometres Total distance ran so far in 2019: 1013 kilometres Recorded in my little tracking spreadsheet. How September 2019 went Goal: Go for a run five days every week. (Basically: Clock 20 runs

Weeknote for weeks 38 and 39 of 2019, 16 September to 29 September

A couple of weeks “back in the trenches” as an interaction designer, starting out helping a squad because a designer was away. Staff are users too, so it is a Good Thing NHS Jobs is giving design consideration to those doing the “administrating” through the web channel of the service.

The problem observed

The road we live on is a loop road. You go into the loop at the bottom off a feeder road, go up the loop one way, and keep going until you find yourself back where you started. If you want you can go the other way round. Whichever direction,

Weeknote for week 37 of 2019, 9 September to 15 September

One of those head down, keep at it working weeks: Continuing service mapping and then pausing it to get some artefacts/outputs done, "Maccing up" a journey map, gap analysis, some catch ups with people elsewhere in "the industry", and ending the week looking to look

The flow

The automatic checkouts at Morrisons have a welcome screen — the screen literally says _Welcome_ so it must be a _welcome screen_ — that offers you two options: `Start` and `I Brought My Own Bag`. (The automatic checkouts at other supermarkets might say the same or something alike in similar circumstances. Maybe

Weeknote for week 36 of 2019, 2 September to 8 September

For a change, pretty much a copy and paste of my Evernote doc for this week, with a couple of snips and a couple of non-work things slung at the end. Lots of thoughts about delivery, what's "good enough", do we actually have a widespread "

Run notes for August 2019

Where I was at the end of the previous month, July 2019 Target to run in 2019: 1092 kilometres Total distance ran so far in 2019: 942 kilometres Recorded in my little tracking spreadsheet. Goal(s) for July 2019 Run 100 kilometres. (I ran 70.6 kilometres, which was less

Weeknote for week 35 of 2019, 26 August to 30 August

Bank holiday Monday, always a fun day. Lovely and warm to me, but possibly alarmingly warm to others and the planet. Went indoor climbing indoors, where the warmth outside was felt inside as I rose to the top of the walls, like climbing was being a human thermometer. At the

Weeknote for week 34 of 2019, 19 August to 23 August

It’s week 5 on NHS Jobs, working with Difrent and NHS BSA as a service designer. I have already had four weeks helping and just come off a couple of weeks away. I can highly recommend this tonic: Spend some time absorbing and getting to know stuff, have a

Run notes for July 2019

Where I was at the end of the previous month, June 2019 Target to run in 2019: 1092 kilometres Total distance ran so far in 2019: 742 kilometres Recorded in my little tracking spreadsheet. Goal(s) for June 2019 👍🏼👍🏼 Run 160 kilometres. Actually ran 200 kilometres. 👍🏼👍🏼 Look to do four

Run notes for June 2019

Where I was at the end of the previous month, May 2019 Target to run in 2019: 1092 kilometres Total distance ran so far in 2019: 601.4 kilometres Recorded in my little tracking spreadsheet. Goal(s) for June 2019 👎🏼 Run at least 150 kilometres: Ran 141 kilometres, on 19

Run notes for May 2019

Figures at the end of the previous month, April 2019 Distance ran in April / distance ran for the year by the end of April / goal for the year: 124.7 kilometres / 451.43 kilometres / 1092 kilometres Recorded in my little tracking spreadsheet. Goal(s) for May 2019 👍🏼 Run at least

Look after yourself

I didn’t realise it was Mental Health Awareness Week until late today. This time last year I just wasn’t happy, and felt one of the reasons was my ballooning weight. I love sport and used to love taking part but never made the time or sought the opportunities

Weeknote for Monday 6 May 2019 to Friday 10 May 2019

{% include weeknotes_dwp_MoveToUC_intro.html %} How did our work move forwards? Planning was solid, some clear goals and then some clear tasks to help us meet those goals. The designing gang were patient working it through. Setting up to get on not setting to fall. Wednesday was elaboration of

Weeknote for Monday 29 April 2019 to Friday 3 May 2019

{% include weeknotes_dwp_MoveToUC_intro.html %} How did our work move forwards? Giving room to – and sometimes doing the work to make room for – the team, as a group or individuals, to go and do their thing is becoming more habitual. I posed the question a few weeks back “Why