Santa baby, the balustrade is starting to rot, a lot I’ve had no funding all year, Santa baby, So shore up the chimney tonight.

The School Business Leadership profession has been on a journey of its own over the last 3 decades.

So today the Cath Kidston catalogue arrives on my doormat - one more way the world has found to tell me how poorly I shape up as a domestic goddess. The thou...

General Election – a School Business Manager’s To-Do list

Sometimes I might use "and they were only 80 quid" or sometimes just "NatWest" is enough to get his attention. I save "HMRC rang" and "I re

the budget hasn't fixed itself over the summer, that really annoying colleague is still really, really annoying, no one has magically learnt

What kind of mad fool would get home from a long day out at 9.00pm on a Sunday, feed the animals, sort the kids stuff out for school tomorrow, then sit down ...

Hoorah, I've manage to create an events page on my website, go me! And if that weren't enough to celebrate, which it totally is, I've managed to add some eve...

Twitter is also acting like a food addict's enabler, sneaking me bonbons as I try and concentrate on sticking to my plate of salad

But when the profession itself decides that resilience is 2nd only to financial acumen as its most required skill, that's a hugely important

I've found, seen, sniffed, discarded and replaced his tie and blazer, so all he had to do was make sure his bag was ready

For me, as someone who is very self-reliant and a natural introvert, I am just as happy with an online interaction as real life.

So if nothing changes, come 2022, we will find ourselves in a position where a member of SLT is paid at a rate equivalent to a 2nd or 3rd ye

Apparently they sent some work experience kid down to the archives to search for some ancient rulings on preroguing the Governing Body

SBL Connect is alive and kicking and already starting to connect people. Hurrah!

Perhaps professional wellbeing really can be achieved through a collective decision to collaborate and address the pressures we face?

I'm not sure a seat around the table is enough. Why can't we have our own table? Or a whole bunch of tables? And sofas and chairs.

So I'm sat here, on the sofa, blogging, with a cup of earl grey at my side and it feels safe. Like an anchor in a galactic maelstrom that I

"My bedroom is intolerably warm, Papa" said daughter, "I feel quite certain that I might simply faint if there is no respite by nightfall".

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