Been a busy couple of weeks with quite a bit of time spent out on the road, this did provide a rare opportunity for me to get a trip across to Manchester for the football. …

So turns out that this tweet in jest was not so funny after all and purdah did actually mean no weeknotes, or at least content would have been extremely sparse. …

Shorter week this week due to a last minute days annual leave on Friday for half term which resulted a trip to 10 pin bowling with the kids. My eldest takes after my stubbornness and at 6 years old refused to use the ramp and wanted to use the heaviest…

Celebrate what we do, learn from different experiences to improve Real varied work this week a strategy session with the NHSBSA Board, a session with one of service team’s to look improving delivery, some discovery work on potential new services and some incident resolution. Also ended the week celebrating Diwali with some of the team, and what a fantastic celebration…

Must Get Back In the Habit — Had a bit of a hiatus from weeknotes over the summer mainly due to the way holidays fell and childcare duties (is it childcare when its your children) meaning that I was off for a big chunk of August, this did mean I had these absolutely stunning views for a…

Summer has arrived — A sense of the ‘Summer Holidays’ starting to take hold this week most noticeably by the amount of car parking spaces still available at 09:00. Although this was probably also exaggerated due to an AC failure in the building making it exceptionally warm, and an encouragement to those who could…

Make things Open, Share and Learn — Been a couple of weeks again since my last ‘weeknotes’ instalment(starting to think I should do fortnight notes). Bit of a mixture between having a hectic couple of weeks and parenting duties last week (kids dance fundraiser on Friday, Gymnastics followed by Dance followed by Durham Miners Meeting on Saturday…

Personal Reflections and Managing Myself — These weeknotes have been probably the most difficulty to write, when I started out doing these I promised myself that they would be genuinely open and honest reflections, and this weeks been a tough one. In a week which on the surface should have been a high, with some big…

Another fortnight summary this week having returned last week from leave and ‘recharging’, although I’m not convinced how much you actually recharge with a 3 year old and a 5 year old in tow. …