Archive for June 20th, 2007

The next departure from platform…

Family of the work kind again. Yesterday brought news of two more departures - one colleague to work in a new post in Manchester, the other to change to lobbying work with a charity.

Our first piece of positive promotion? One colleague who’s been with us for some time got the promotion she wanted, and will now be a couple of rungs above me, looking after the work of quite a large cross-sectoral team.

Tomorrow sees actual departures of two more colleagues, one to a secondment in an office abroad, another home to Eastern Europe to take stock, and work out her next career move.

So if any of you want to work in the same office as me, there’s a few spaces at the moment…

Morale is a bit of a problem when over a third of the office has moved on, or is about to. If I thought our ‘folk thin[ned] lamentably’ a month or two back, they do all the more now. Our little team of three has developed a chocolate habit this week, to keep us going in the afternoon, but we need not to let that one continue too long…
Nice meanwhile to welcome one of those back in a couple of weeks to help at the course we run for our students before they go abroad. Here’s hoping she brings some Parisian sun with her!

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Rock around the pools

It’s another seaside outing, and this time church family.  Last Sunday saw a group of us head down to St Abb’s Head and Coldingham Bay, between North Berwick and Berwick on Tweed.

It’s been a mite wet in Scotland recently (she writes, having come home half soaked tonight), so our hopes were not great for the beach trip part.  However, coffees and biscuits in the church hall there helped us settle once we’d arrived, and the sun came out in earnest by c.2pm.

I was on rockpool duty with the two little boys of friends of ours for part of the afternoon.  The eldest had a theory that sand turned into wet sand, turned into frogspawn, turned into tadpoles…I decided not to knock the theory, so we went on to have a chat about frogs, while I also tried to avoid him hurling himself into the water while throwing the next handful of wet sand.

Last week involved a lot of late nights at work, so the contrast of sunshine, a few sandcastles, and slice of good cake being handed out was a good one!

After all, Brits discuss the weather so much that when it actually turns out all right, it ought to get a mention.

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