Abstract
Loves: Kirby and Attica (cats), Ben (husband), sport, gardening [order checked and verified] Hates: flying, drivers not indicating, people not stacking supermarket trolleys Favourite food: curry Favourite film: All The President’s Men Most recent book purchase: RHS Latin for Gardeners – studied Latin at ‘A’-Level and still enjoys fathoming it Would like to have invented: Velcro, cling film, traffic cones.
Highlights
Alison Whitehorn has been the UKSG Business Manager since April 2000 when she was persuaded, against her better judgment, to vacate the part-time UKSG Administrator role that she had held for just over a year
Alison graduated from the University of Surrey with a degree in languages and economics which, with a complete lack of career planning, got her onto a management training scheme in the Metropolitan Public Health Division of Thames Water – that’s sewers and sewage treatment – which proved absolutely fascinating, especially the time spent ‘down below’ on inspection work (‘infiltration at 10 o’clock, encrustation at 2 o’clock’)
It was probably where she cultivated her eye for detail, and she studied for a qualification in administration
Summary
Alison Whitehorn has been the UKSG Business Manager since April 2000 when she was persuaded, against her better judgment, to vacate the part-time UKSG Administrator role that she had held for just over a year. Loves: Kirby and Attica (cats), Ben (husband), sport, gardening [order checked and verified] Hates: flying, drivers not indicating, people not stacking supermarket trolleys Favourite food: curry Favourite film: All The President’s Men Most recent book purchase: RHS Latin for Gardeners – studied Latin at ‘A’-Level and still enjoys fathoming it Would like to have invented: Velcro, cling film, traffic cones.
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