Tag: Post Type – Life Update

by Sarah - SWB

Wee Break

Hi all, Just a quick post this evening to say I’m taking a wee break, I’ve got an exam coming up, and I’m so behind on my reviews I’m going to take the time to catch up with them and get them scheduled and then I’ll be back! I won’t be blog hopping much during […]

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by Sarah - SWB

What September 27th Means To Me

This is a life related post – so if you wish to skip over it please feel free! I wasn’t sure about posting this but I felt the need to write it so why not click publish.

27th September 1939, Joanne Christine Shaw was born, she survived the blitz just outside Birmingham, did teacher training in Devon where she met and fell in love with Roy Hunt, had 3 children during the 1960s, including my mum, and then in 1987, just a few years after she turned 48 I was born, her very first grandchild.

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by Sarah - SWB

Professional Development aka 3 Hours of Boredom

Today was a day of professional development, I went and sat the first exam for my level 4 CIPS course. Now I know that completing this course is important for career progression, but as much as I enjoy my day to day job, the theory of procurement is enough to put anyone to sleep. I wrote a little over 11 pages – handwritten! Who knew they were still making you hand write exams, I thought in the few years since I finished my degree they might have moved on. Clearly not!

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by Sarah - SWB

Giving Blood

So on Thursday afternoon I popped over to the car park at work and gave blood. It only took an hour of my time and that means I may have saved a life today. My blood group is B+, I was given a badge to prove it. Only 9.2% of the Scottish population share my blood type, and only 6% of people in Scotland who are eligible to donate actually do. This means out of the 5.3 million people in Scotland, only 491,979 people share my blood type, and less that 29,500 actually donate blood.

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by Sarah - SWB

TGIF

In one of my previous posts I mentioned the fact I was lucky enough to have been able to take the whole festive period off work, being in Scotland meant I got an extra bank holiday meaning I didn’t have to go back to the office until Wednesday, now it’s Friday evening and wow have […]

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