I have been neglecting my blog unfortunately and the main reason is that life has been getting in the way. A poor excuse i know but there you have it! This post then is a catch up of what I have been up to since my last post, Friday.

Friday - Went to a local hotel for a workshop run by our local Children’s Trust on improving participation in the planning of services. Of course those working in education and to a lesser extent social services have a captive audience when it comes to asking the opinion of children and young people (what they like to call teenagers) but in health we have done less work in that area. My experiences so far in meetings where there is so called ‘users’ have seen representation from people who are generally old enough to have grandchildren than to be children themselves. This is something we have to do, so the day provided some interesting thoughts for me. Friday night we visited the inlaws, who have decided to pay for us to go on a cruise around the Mediterranean later in the year. What can you do?

Saturday - Housework, housework and more housework. As I have mentioned before, I have seriously neglected the housework during the write up of the dissertation and decided that it was time to get on with it. Later I cooked a lasagne and chilli and took both with us for the visit to my brother. This had come about because they were meant to move house and I had suggested I come along later with food. The move was postponed at the 11th hour, but Mrs Mug offered to still provide the food. We decided on the spur of the moment (I felt like consuming a glass or 2 of wine and hubby had already been to the pub) to stay over. This was fun but entailed a late night and a return home at midday Sunday.

Sunday - Showers all round, then a trip to the shopping centre, to buy teen son’s prom suit. Yes the American Prom idea has arrived in the UK, and interestingly his is to be on 4th July. He looks extremely smart and handsome in it (as you might expect me to say). Watch this space for the photos which will appear after the event. Onwards to a local Italian restaurant for a pizza and then home to chill out.

Monday - Work, which today involved an away morning with the bigger team I am now part of. You know, one of those team building events. Good fun and I thought useful too. Team lunch (paid for by ourselves by the way) and then back to the office for some proper work. Later, had to go food shopping, because unsurprisingly I didn’t have the time at the weekend. So thats me up to date. Weary, but we seem to have done lots!