Sometimes the instructions might not make sense but you really do need to just follow them. Thoughtless not to.

Interesting week learning about new governance structures.
As always it’s about clear lines of accountability, good communications and the ability to be flexible at times

Initial rule book.
This is without the additions and appendices too.

Windsor. Open.
If you know. You know

At last!!
Say Dave’s everywhere.

Sometimes instructions can be low key but still clear!

From one of my site visits this week.
We all need some clear guidance when we’re lost.

Chosen

Sign saying PLEASE PUT THINGS BACK IN THEIR PROPER PLACES AND YOU WILL FIND THEM

In a world of madness good to feel like in some ways everything is exactly in its place. And therefore easy to pick up when needed - except my glasses, always.

You are what you’re told you are. Just accept it!

#TheApprentice #TotalRefund

Best walk ever as per

Lots of different ways to issue instructions!
You don’t have to shout to be heard.

A floor sticker from the covid period reminding everyone to keep two metres apart

Instructions that are fading from memory.
Amazing how quickly we were all programmed and then de-programmed around what’s normal

When you’re on the lead and excited to see what might be next!

Blister pack of tablets, each day is labelled and I think I should be going Monday to Sunday but I’ve taken Friday, Tuesday, Monday and Sunday so far. This is not down to time travel

Thinking the sertraline must be working because my lackadaisical approach to which tablet to take which day isn’t triggering me.

Or maybe it’s time travel

Personally I’d be looking happier even if I was being given the bowl on the floor rather than at the table - sometimes an owner just can’t catch the breaks

It’s my favourite bit of the games

The commentators on Winter Olympics - in a small cupboard as far as you can tell. Have added Gordon the Goffer

Loving the #WinterOlympics coverage

A bichon frisée. (Off white at present) lies amongst grey cushions and a throw. All paws in the air and tummy exposed. Asleep. You can just tell he’s snoring loudly

Could be comfier?
Milo the Bichon Frisée - guarding us all and keeping us safe #DogsOfBlueSky

Looking forward to the Association for Cultural Enterprises conference next week - if you’re going to be in Birmingham give me a shout!

Headline from Get Surrey Online - reads ‘Surrey Village named among UK's best places to live that tourists mispronounce but is obvious to those who live there’

Amazing to be named among ‘UK's best places to live that tourists mispronounce but is obvious to those who live there’

Niche, but maybe easier to win than Britain in Bloom.

It’s Ewell, since you ask.

I shouldn’t - but can’t help watching #TheApprentice - on this occasion I would just scrap the lot and start again

A book nook. Nestled in between a load of books on British Prime Ministers and elections (I can’t help it, I’m always fascinated). It’s a steam train in a station with a platform containing a bench and a luggage trolley. There’s a clock overhead

A book nook. Nestled in between a load of books on British Prime Ministers and elections (I can’t help it, I’m always fascinated). It’s a steam train in a station with a platform containing a bench and a luggage trolley. There’s a clock overhead

Latest book book complete.
This one was a birthday present. Lovely to do and nice to ignore the real world for a little.

Imagine the ‘let’s look back on 2026’ reels!!

Photo of the lake near me, which we walk around daily. Winter trees, grey blue sky and quite a brown lake given the recent rain

Out on Milo’s walk.. and hear me out on this .. Binterest - like Pinterest but with all the best bins for dogs to sniff.

Sunset over the vineyard and river at Painshill Park

The view down to the lake from within Gothic Temple

Painshill Park looking as stunning as ever from a few days ago now.

The milk has not be affected

A fridge - absolutely stacked with bottles of milk on every shelf

Anyone that used to work with me in the past will appreciate this - the office fridge in our shared kitchen.