The online home and (not so) alter(ed)-ego of Ann McMeekin Carrier. New Mum, Photographer, Knitter, Petrolhead, Shoe and Stationery Obsessive and User Experience Consultant at Lab49.
I don’t write as much as I used to. I don’t remember as much as I used to. As the wonderful Field Notes notebooks remind me: I’m not writing it down to remember it later. I’m writing it down to remember it now. 2010 was an epic year for me, for many reasons and while [...]
Dad, This year, more than ever, you’re closer to my mind. I’m getting married, Dad. To a man I wish you’d been able to meet. I love him so much, and I know that he loves me to, and it’s wonderful, and for all that I’m looking forward to being his wife, it’s really hard [...]
In November 2005, I went to Manchester for an AccessifyForum meetup. One of the people I met there was Jack Pickard, and while I don’t remember much of what we talked about, I do remember laughing a lot. With, rather than at, him. Our paths crossed a few times since that weekend, and whenever we [...]
I read blogs for several months before getting up the guts to actually start one, because I didn’t think I had anything to say, and anyway, even if I did have something to say, I couldn’t have a hope in hell of saying it as well as the people whose blogs I’d been reading. Eventually, [...]
Three years ago, at about this time of night, I was eating dinner in the Banana Leaf restaurant in Clapham Junction. I’d been awake for more than 36 hours, and it’s fair to say that I was a little delirious, but it wasn’t just from lack of sleep. 22 hours earlier, on the platform at [...]