Despite the impact of the Covid epidemic I’ve still been busy on a variety of projects. I have continued to do a lot of proofreading for general and children’s non-fiction titles. Writing work has included the fun of compiling descriptions of microscopic life-forms for Dorling Kindersley’s major title Micro Life (published autumn 2021). I’m also gearing up for work on a book about chemistry and its history aimed at the general reader (published 2022).

The tutoring work I’ve been doing since 2016 at the Scottish Rural College (SRUC) continues to be enjoyable, albeit with more of the work online. The focus is on dyslexic students and I enjoy making a difference to individual students’ learning outcomes in one-to-one tutorial sessions. The editing and proofreading skills I’ve built up over the years are invaluable for this work.

The regular word-researching work I do for the Oxford English Dictionary continues, and has been getting back to full speed now that libraries have reopened. All in all, I still remain in the market for freelance work of all kinds!