Bath Blogging

I think this may become a regular posting. So here I am! Bubbles & water all around, ridiculous extractor fan whurring in the background spoiling the ambience, even more ridiculously it's fitted in a pain of glass that could have been an opening window... Duhuh! Great piece of design there! Must get off my architectural high horse! "Anyway, she says trying to ignore the whurring, "Why such a long silence since November 2006 you may ask?"

Well...

Gynaecological op - Post operative infection - Christmas - Increased workload / expanding business - Oh... Yes 2 signets, 2 ducklings now 7, 5, 3 & 1 - The school run by bike with cool bike trailer - More workload - Cross country skiing for a week with cool bike trailer turning into ski trailer aka Shakleton & North West Passage Expedition - Business metamorphosis / expansion... - Dutiful hubby away for nearly a month combined total (not that I'm counting the weeks, days, hours, minutes & seconds, and I am due a few days at Champneys for that!!) - & a general feeling of "what am I doing here?"

So...

Indigo Red office... stage exit left Lydia!!

Yes it was a bit of a shock to us too, but we feel really good about this decision. Most people do this the other way around, but I'm not most people. So I am becoming a mother at home full time, after having launched a business with my husband and brought it to this point during the last five years (whilst having had four little ones and all that entails along the way) Hooray!

I think there comes a point where work / life balance is so far out of kilter that a major shift needs to take place. May 2007 is that point in time where a crow bar will do it's work and shift all things to a better position.

Indigo Red is thriving as a Retained Executive Search operation and we have very recently added Leadership Training to the portfolio. We want to train and equip companies to seize their finest resource (their staff) and recognise the adjustments that need to be made for their staff to function at optimum capacity.

I have been a guinea pig within Indigo Red for just this, and we feel that a "sabatical" whilst our children are so young is necessary for the benefit of our children & home life, and consequently my future within Indigo Red. Now don't all rush off to your bosses and ask for a sabatical... You must remember I'm married to one of the Directors & I'm the other one! Decision making's either very easy or excruciatingly painful...

I've just pulled the plug, in the bath that is, so more to follow in proceeding posts I am sure...

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Comments

[Stuart Bruce - Wolfstar]

Sounds like life is treating you both good. We're very busy at the moment, with lots of changes in the pipeline. Be good to catch up with you and Steve.