Paula, Author at Battling On

The Boy Wonder….

January is a desperate month. Bleak and grey, its enveloping darkness creates a mask of desolation that blinds you to everything that is good and positive. In short, it’s depressing and ugly and if there were a political movement

compassion fatigue?

I have to be honest here, my knowledge of world affairs is shaky at best. Prior to this if you asked me about Haiti I’d have struggled to say more than, er it’s a dictatorship, um, shaky economy and er,

mmmmm, sleep…

Time was that sleep was an irritation, a necessary interruption to life’s great adventure. Nights out would begin with a phone call or knock at the door and end sliding off a night bus in time to grab a shower

just because….

It must have been 1999. I remember sitting in a car park, somewhere in the industrial depths of Reading with my now husband, pre-children, marriage, mortgage and responsibility. I played this song – probably from an old maxell tape and

breaking the rules….

My seven-year-old son could rival Louis Walsh with his obsession with the rule book. Every one of his made-up games requires a minimum of 10 minutes pre-play explanation of ‘the rules’ before play can commence. Anyone who dares to contravene

My Top 10 positive changes for 2010

I ended last year by tweeting my personal Top 10 positive changes that every business could benefit from considering. Here’s a quick reminder so that I can look back on them and write about them in more detail over the

caring and sharing….

My mum & dad obviously did a good job in dragging me up as (for an only child) I’m a great believer in sharing. I’ve often thought that if hard cash were not the currency of choice in our modern

night shifts…

I’ve talked before about my ‘working arrangements’ and the upshot of this style is that I’m often working when sensible folk are catching up on Sky+ / Facebook / Twitter / the pile of books on their bedside table (delete

Autumn is falling….

So that was the summer… no, really it was – that 3 days of sunshine we had in May, remember it now? September’s not unwelcome arrival signals the return to school for kidlings and my dedicated return to work, which