by Sam Dounis | May 3, 2019 | About Sam, Blogging, Stories, Thoughts and Musings, Uncategorized
Yesterday I went back to school. Not to learn, or so I thought, but to give a talk about blogging to some pupils at a local primary school as part of their World at Work Week. As it turns out I probably learned as much as they did. First of all, primary school...
by Sam Dounis | Apr 10, 2019 | About Sam, Edinburgh, Fun Days Out, Kimber, Uncategorized
Yesterday was our wedding anniversary, our fourteenth to be exact, and even though it was a school night, we decided to go out to celebrate. After all, fourteen years is rather a long time. Now, obviously there’s no show without Punch, so Miss Kimber Dounis would have...
by Sam Dounis | Feb 20, 2019 | About Sam, Blogging, Kenmore, Kimber, Stories, Uncategorized
Today, 20th February, is apparently ‘Love Your Pet’ Day! I don’t know who makes this stuff up, and who these pet owners are who need a specific day to love their pet, but hey, all blog post inspiration is good. So here we go, Ten Things I Love About...
by Sam Dounis | Feb 13, 2019 | About Sam, Thoughts and Musings, Uncategorized, Writing
One of the benefits of working for an organisation is that someone else has decided the components of your job, and your role is to execute that to the best of your ability. When you work for yourself, you have a lot of decisions to make around what you do and how you...
by Sam Dounis | Feb 8, 2019 | About Sam, Uncategorized
Last May the husband and I decided that we really should do something about becoming a bit healthier. He was pretty good on the exercise front, but we both needed to lose some weight. So I signed up for Lean & Learn, a health and fitness programme designed around...
by Sam Dounis | Feb 6, 2019 | Uncategorized
Today’s Writing Inspiration was to write about Chinese New Year. Instead of writing, however, I got the idea for a cartoon and this was the end result. Stories come in many forms: they can be told in written prose or poetry, spoken, acted out, or in pictures. My...
