When I started out on my portfolio career, I said I wanted to be ‘working out of coffee shops with an iPhone’. I am now lucky enough to spend quite … Continue reading Top 10 London Coffee Shops
Author: goosterontheloose
Portfolio careerist - executive coach, coach trainer, parent, lifelong learner. Loves reading, coffee, Zumba, travelling (in pre-covid times) ...
A million miles from Cape Town: Robben Island
The views of Table Mountain, flanked on the west by Lion’s Head and on the east by Devil’s Peak, are riveting. But for the political prisoners held there between 1961 and 1994, this spectacular vista from Robben Island must have been a torment. Our tour of the island, where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned from 1964 to 1982, was one which scoured the inside of my mind.
Coupons in Amsterdam
When we first met we were waiting in a vegetarian hostel for the clouds to lift and the rain to stop so that we could climb Vulcan Villarica in central … Continue reading Coupons in Amsterdam
Liz Gooster’s Day Off*
Marianne Cantwell, author of Be a Free Range Human, is never short of fun, creative, freedom-enhancing ideas. One of her recent Friday emails (what she calls her Friday love letter) invited her readers to imagine what they’d do with an unexpected day off. She encouraged us to give ourselves free rein, to dream big, or small, just as it suited us, and to free ourselves from any barriers of cost or possibility. I felt inspired to give it a go, so here, in no particular order, are my top 10 ideas. (more…)
Gooster on the Loose 