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A day on the river
ByJohn MayToday the Career Academy staff team (or at least those who could travel, due to the appalling weather) decamped to Cambridge for a day out. We went punting on theriver, enjoyed a wonderful picnic and I was able to have a blistering argument witha tea shop proprietor who wouldn’t let us sit together… All in…
750 guests and a blown fuse
ByJohn MayThe Guildhall in the City of London is a very big and imposing building. It has the feel of a cathedral (having been built around the same time as many of them) and for that reason events there can sometimes be a bit stuffy and pompous. Tonight was different. Nearly 250 graduating students from Career…
Never let anyone tell you that young people are ill mannered…
ByJohn MayTo the headteacher of East London Science School… Dear David On this warm and sunny Friday afternoon, I thought you might appreciate this short note as you get ready for the weekend. I have just shared a tube carriage with a party of your pupils who are on the way to the V&A…
Winslow 10k
ByJohn MayA really nice race, this one, with just a little sting in the tail! The last km was pretty much all uphill, which came as a bit of a surprise to those of us who didn’t know this part of Buckinghamshire. Excellently organised – and a very nice bacon bap at the end.
On LGBTQI+ Scouting…
ByJohn MayI no longer actively work with a Section, I do other things as a Scout volunteer, but I was a leader in UK Scouting throughout the 80s and 90s, when being gay in Scouting wasn’t something you admitted to. Indeed, the institutional homophobia at the time was palpable. Since then, things have changed for LGBTQI+…
An evening in Shibuya
ByJohn MayI was told by the concierge at my hotel that Shibuya is ‘young and exciting’. She was right on both counts. The district almost pulsed with a dizzying tide of human movement… I wish I’d videod the crowds crossing the road. It made Piccadilly Circus look calm. I wandered through a number of department stores,…

