Tuesday, 23 September 2008

I have an unprecedented stretch of five work days with no out-of-office meetings and I intend to extract full value from this opportunity.

First this morning, I attended to preparations for our 29 October Herts wide conference on partnership. I designed and prepared a website for the event. The problem we still have is the final 3:20 session which still says “HCC speaker tba”. I fear if we don’t get this slot filled soon it will be too late.

From the Women’s Resource Centre, I receive an invitation to a conference: Human rights – tackling inequality and social exclusion. There are a series of conferences all over the English regions - everywhere but the East of England region. I don’t want to seem ungracious but this seems a bit of a faux pas – we in the East of England region are learning a thing or two about social exclusion.

In the evening, I attended Watford Chess Club. I had thought to join Welwyn Chess Club, but then they changed their meetings to Thursdays and Thursdays are now reserved for folk dancing. So Welwyn’s loss is Watford’s gain; or not: tonight was the first time I have played for more than twenty years and I lost - badly and repeatedly.