Geraldine the opera singer here - thanks for the mention. How strange but pleasant to see my name here. I googled "employee blog" but I'm not sure I qualify since I am a freelance singer. My life goes from one contract to another. However, my blog is definitely a "job-related" blog. I haven't yet linked from my main site since I was trying out the blogging thing to see if I could be consistent and reliable. I didn't want to start something only for it to get stale and sad. BTW, what is name-checking? Did I really do that? I thought I just followed your link to an email group. I hope I get to meet you and other UK bloggers. Sometimes, among my colleagues, simply because I know what a blog is, I feel like a square peg in a round hole.