Cake

Because I seem destined to spend my life lashed to a laptop, today I started yet another part-time contract (to be somehow shoehorned between my freelance work and an existing contract at the lovely Antipodes Nature).

My agency sent me this cake to share with my new colleagues, which was nice of them. However, the gift of more hours in a day would have been infinitely better.

Moving on

It's a truth universally acknowledged that one of the downsides of contracting is saying goodbye. Today I finished a copywriting gig at a company I've spent three days a week at for the past nine months. There was oodles of baking, speeches and these gorgeous flowers.

It was a privilege to work with these shiny happy folk but now it's time to move on. I was hoping for a week off between drinks to catch up on some of the freelancing work I am dangerously behind on but it hasn't quite worked out like that. Instead, I start my next contract on Monday....