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  • Please help support Disability Snowsport UK’s Urgent Appeal

    Fellow friends who are into snowsports, the outdoors and/or equal opportunities… My beloved Disability Snowsport UK, a disabled snowsports charity, needs our help. Due to the current pandemic situation, indoor snow centres being closed and sporting events not taking place, most of their usual sources of income and funding have stopped. We can help them…

  • End of sabbatical reflections

    So here it is… the end of my 3 month sabbatical, today I return to the land of work. It’s been so good to take a break. Of course I’m very fortunate to be able to do it and not worry about the financing but I really believe that everyone should take an extended break…

  • Sabbatical Adventures: My experience volunteering with Disability Snowsport UK for the first of four activity weeks

    DSUK (disability snowsports UK) is a UK based charity whose mission it is to get everyone skiing no matter the mental or physical ability. They are based at dry slopes and snow domes all over the UK offering lessons to people with every kind of disability you can imagine, running local community groups and activity…

  • Ski Performance Camp with Element Ski School in Verbier

    Two weeks ago I had the most wonderful week.  As I’m spending at least 7 weeks skiing this sabbatical, I wanted to kick off my skiing a strong note. So I went hunting for a performance camp that I could go to, somewhere that I could focus on improving my own skiing for a week,…

  • Sabbatical Adventures

    Once you’ve been at ThoughtWorks for 10years you earn a 12 week paid sabbatical. It’s such an amazing privilege that I’m very grateful for. There aren’t any specific guidelines about what you should do with those 12 weeks other than to encourage you to do something to enrich the life of yourself and others. So…

  • 10 years @ ThoughtWorks

    Unbelievably, yesterday was the 10 year anniversary of when I joined ThoughtWorks. It blows my mind that a whole decade has passed since the first day I walked into our London office with Becky and Val, as a recent graduate, as we hid in the kitchen, too nervous to join our new colleagues on the…