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I know that my hair's a bit messy in the photograph above but I had just been running for 13.1 miles. The day was 21st September 2024 and crossing the finish line that day took much, much more than I…

In January 2024 the Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, Unión Europea y Cooperación (MAEUEC), the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, awarded me the title of Traductora jurada de inglés y español, a sworn translator for English and…

It's taken a while to write this post for reasons that shall become obvious but better late than never. On 17th December 2023 I fractured my wrist. How did I do it? Earlier in the day, I had been at…

In 2016 I was robbed of my EU citizenship. As a holder of a British passport I had been free to circulate around the European Union freely, offering my services without hinderance. I was also able to benefit from free…

I have a close connection to Salamanca, Spain because the capital of the province is my mum's hometown and she still has a lot of family in the province. Between 1986 and 1988 I lived and worked in Salamanca. I…

Last week I genuinely felt that I was part of the solution. Colombian senators visited the UK, meeting their counterparts in the Houses of Parliament and the Northern Ireland Assembly. There were many discussions about the Colombian and North Irish…

This year I have been endeavouring to improve my consecutive interpreting skills by attending practice sessions with David Violet to work on how I take notes while listening to a speaker. For most of the year I was taking notes…

Today, I had my first interpreting assignment using Qonda. I was a little nervous at first because connecting with the technican who was going to brief me proved problematic. However, once we were on Zoom, I was delighted to see…

At last! In January I was finallly able to do a course, not a day or an hour-long webinar, but a course on note-taking for consecutive interpreting. I learnt about it when I registered for Terp Summit 2022 and attended…