Friday, 25 January 2008

I visited my dear old Mum to look at more family papers, and we spent a pleasant few hours talking about her family history. During the drive home I heard a Radio 2 feature about a volunteer hospital DJ from Chesterfield (Ivan Brackenbury) who has used volunteering to launch an entirely new career for himself: it’s great to hear such a positive story about volunteering.

In the evening, Jackie and I had hoped to walk up Campus West to hear a lecture on Global Warming frm one of the scientists advising the Inter-Governmental Conference on Climate Change. Rather late in the day, we discovered that tickets had sold out - on a Friday night!? do people have nothing better to do?!. Instead, always willing to adapt to life’s challenges, we stayed home and watched South Park.