The great Career Academies UK Team
What a very colourful and splendid group we are… Marc took this excellent photo this afternoon. Oh, the fun we had deciding where it should be shot. We ended up outside the main door of the building.
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To Llandaff Cathedral…
A wonderful occasion this morning when I was able to be present at the priesting of my old friend Sue Beverly. Last year I attended her installation as deacon, so it was terrific to return to Llandaff Cathedral to see her welcomed into the priesthood of the Church in Wales.
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Bathing in Bath
A very traditional British public school education left me fairly averse to the hedonistic pleasures of the spa experience. Cold showers were more my sort of thing. But for the last couple of years I have enjoyed the Austrian spa experience after a day’s skiing in the mountains. Today, finding myself with a free evening…
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A meeting room with a view…
Just occasionally I get to have meetings in amazing places. Today was one of those days. Here is a view from the top of London’s Gherkin building, due East towards the towers of Canary Wharf. London really is a great city.
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Barts and The London 10k
When I first started running three years ago, it was Victoria Park in Hackney where I did my first circuits. Once round was enough back then, leaving me puffed out, but proud of my achievement, as I walked back to Roding Road via the newsagent. Today I returned to Victoria Park to do three circuits…
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Bupa London 10,000
“If there’s one thing we can be sure of,” said the man on the public address system this morning, “God is not a runner.” This may have been a little unfair, and possibly mildly blasphemous, but he had a point. As I crossed Green Park to reach the starting pens of this morning’s 10k race…
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On the campaign trail
Today, colleagues at the Scout Association, through a series of letters and emails sent around the globe, announced that I am to be their candidate for election to the World Scout Committee. The election is to be held in July, in South Korea. World Scouting has been living through a number of challenges in the…
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Society Guardian features Career Academies
An excellent article about the work of Career Academies in Society Guardian today. It’s been interesting finding out which of my friends are Guardian readers… http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/may/14/4
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Leading Questions
Leading Questions – The Guardian’s Society supplement profiles me
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St Albans 10k
What a terrific course! It was described as ‘gently undulating’ and I suppose it was. There were no really difficult hills and most of the trail went along traffic free country lanes. The start was a bit narrow, being a pavement by a relatively major road, but otherwise it was a very jolly run, well…