My reading in 2025 was an eclectic mix of fact and fiction, myth and history, learning and loving. I started the year reading George Eliot’s biography prompted by my 2024 rediscovery of Thomas Hardy when we visited Dorchester (or should I say Casterbridge!) I work in Nuneaton and the famous novelist is referenced everywhere but […]
Nothing hurts like the relationship you don’t have but wish you did. I’m writing this as a piece for me so it’s going to be honest but who knows what I might do with it and where it might end up so if I’ve censored it slightly I hope you understand why. The relationship I […]
Original comment as part of external communications for the CBI Economics Net Zero Economy Report published in February 2024 – Read the full report here “As the former Chair of Coventry & Warwickshire’s Local Enterprise Partnership and someone who has started, scaled, and sold a technology business here, I know we are at the cutting […]
I have a female shiba inu who has just turned 20 months and had her first season. So interesting to observe male dogs behaviour around her especially those who hadn’t been neutered. I couldn’t help but compare it to meetings I have had where I have been the only single female. There is something that […]
I always thought of myself as someone who loved change. Change is what makes things better and I have always been a fan of Grace Hopper’s quote that the most dangerous phrase in our language is ‘we’ve always done it this way’. Then Covid hit and in the weeks, months, and years that followed I […]
My best friend got me a book on female friendship for my birthday last year (along with a t-shirt that says ‘Happy Christmas from Nakatomi Plaza’ which together tell you all you need to know about our friendship!) This book is an anthology of excerpts from literature exploring the complexities of female friendship from childhood […]
This article first appeared on International Women’s Day 2025 published by PLMR – https://plmr.co.uk/2025/03/everyone-can-accelerate-action/ Sarah Windrum is the Head of Cluster Development at MIRA Tech Park in north Warwickshire and chair of the Coventry and Warwickshire Chamber of Commerce’s North Warwickshire Local Business Forum. In this blog, the former chair of Coventry and Warwickshire Local […]
The 27th December 2022 saw us rise before 5am to ensure we left by the hour of six. We had at least a seven hour journey ahead of us from Warwick to Glencoe and JD wanted to be sure we made it in good time. I had not felt great since the week before Christmas […]
The Isle of Lewis is a 3.5 hour ferry journey from Ullapool on the mainland. Ullapool is at least a five hour drive from Gretna Green so we stayed there to break up our ten hour plus journey from Warwick. Ullapool itself is a stop on Scotland’s popular North Coast 500 route and a town […]
2022 is not a year I fancy repeating. We were forced to leave our new home in December 2021 and lived in temporary accommodation until August 2022 when I moved house and met my MSc dissertation deadline in the same week! I also spent the summer working through the practical application of a significant Government […]