A delightful dinner last night with a Scout friend who had worked in my team at the Jamboree. Carine is Belgian and is teaching French in a school outside Göteborg. We went to Soho, a restaurant my guide book told me was the hip place to be. The food was excellent and it was lovely…
This was a truly brilliant race. Not an easy course. Up hills, over bridges, up and down streets. But wonderfully fun and not at all boring. Lots of music – though perhaps there are too many accordian bands in Göteborg for my personal taste. Lots of crowds clapping, though not cheering. Cheering would be impolite…
Stansted airport at 6:30am on a Friday morning is not the Stansted airport I know and love. I’m used to relative quiet, a sensible queue at Starbucks and a sea of people dressed pretty much the same way as me in dark suits, carrying laptopc ases and reading The Times (or if they’re very, very…
A tremendous article today in The Times about Career Academies. I am delighted. http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/public_sector/article6244285.ece
I felt incredibly proud this afternoon when nearly 500 students from Career Academies all over the country came together at Westminster Central Hall for their graduation ceremony. The Career Academies UK staff team, led by Martyn and Yvonne, had put together a terrific event. Great set. Superb opening video. Faultless and efficient certificate presentations. And…
It was real honour for me to travel to Nairobi last weekend to attend the 2nd Africa Regional Scout Summit. Almost every nation in sub Saharan Africa was represented and we were able to discuss the training and programme needs of Scout Organisations. There is some truly tremendous work going on in the region. I…
Pouring rain. But what a brilliant race. Thousands of competitors in Central Park, new York City. The course followed the main road round the perimeter of the park, clockwise. It was great fun to meet Andrew, CEO of ACCA Scotland, and his wife before the race, though he certainly finished a long way ahead of…
Today I finally managed to attend a board meeting of the National Academy Foundation in New York. It was held in the board room of Sandy Weill’s office on a very high floor of the General Motors building, on the South East corner of Central Park. An extraordinary view from the windows – which nearly…
Beautiful weather. A fairly flat course. Excellent, enthusiastic stewarding. And, to cap it all, my mum at the finish to greet me, armed with plenty of water and smoked salmon sandwiches! 2 hours and 4 minutes. Not a bad time either.
The last few days have brought me just yards away from the UK’s headline making news stories. I am pleased to report that I have not been too affected by this and, as yet, will not be asking my friends at Colman Getty to secure publicity on the back of these experiences. On Wednesday evening,…