Ahhhhh, where have the months gone? It seems like a long time ago, plus a short time ago I was giving my farewell speech at work before stepping out into a planned four weeks’ maternity leave which turned out to be just two.

I’d planned to return to work by June/July (this AKL mortgage ain’t gon’ pay itself unfortunately), but an opportunity came up which I couldn’t refuse, so as this post goes live I’ll be turning up for my first day back in the land of the employed. I had actually planned to return to the ad agency I was working for, but as it happened, they only had an opening for full-time work, and I didn’t want to…

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I received an email from a reader recently, as follows:

I’m a Type One diabetic and several years ago I worked as an afterschool childcarer at a primary school in Herne Bay. My boss organised to have everyone come to her home for a work meeting. I was the first one to arrive and “boss” began to talk about the up coming childrens holiday programme with me. The boss said I wouldn’t be able to come along to the ”outings” of the holiday programme and I was quick to ask why? She replied and not exact words, because of my having to test and I may not be focused on the care of the children.

This reply was extremely annoying and…

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