Wednesday no Sheffield

Draft some guidance on an FoI request I've yet to see. Need to scribble a model initial response. Freaky, also recieve some crap from a stalker. Refuse to respond immediately it needs reflection. News. Dash out the door, need to spend more time with Helen because I answer a query in a frantic hurry as I dash out the door and she deserves more.

Back to the Land of Manc for the afternoon. PCT Librarians which is always a delight because it's a bunch of good folk. So off I toddle to South Parkway, return to Gateway House, meet Beryl on the way in. Subject of the sesh is the proposed Primary Care Hub on NLH. Makes sense to me, it's coould be the Primary Care shelf of said gaff.....

Home, feed the family and then a monster sesh of Disney themed 'Clue' or Cluedo as those of us this side of the pond know it. Bit odd, but Cal played well and it was a fun family time of jolly japes and deep joy.

This is What She Said

Morning at Reggie, news and non-existent deities knows what, it seems a long time away now. PM and off to my fave station in Liverpool, South Parkway. There I participate in some sort of travel survey and leap onto a train bound for the Land of Manc and Gateway House. Once there I meet with Mildred around the delightful subject of FoI but along the way bump into Andy M. formerly of C&M but now of WC PCT. Pleasant chat, meeting goes well and I return to South Parkway by way of Warrington.

All in all not a bad afternoon, wish I could remember the morning.....

Bleah!

Phone Nicola last night as I head for the train, night (it was nigh on four'sh having run out of battery again I gave up for the day having listed a fifth of the current archive I'm on, thrown out two wheelie bins of records and reached a stage of general grubiness). I call less because I have to, more because I need to speak to one of the good guys. Highlight of my day was a visit from Jean and Peter who were in the building. Rest of the day was crap, cramped and dirty and I get to repeat it again today - lucky me! The advantage of me doing it is it gets done:

• Strictly by the retention schedules laid out in the code of practice
• It gets it done

The disadvantages

• I don't know the organisations concerned so might be flinging valuable stuff without realising it
• I don't know if I'm only listing the organisation I'm dealing with's stuff, I could be listing material belonging to other organisations and flinging their stuff away!

All of this is in Gateway House a place that makes Hammy House at its worst look positively palatial! A 60s office block at Picadilly it is filled with endless manky stud walls and little and large offices. A return to mid-80s NHS land!

Get home last night, manufacture a chilli and watch a couple of recorded episodes of Scrubs before bath, wine, bed. Fail to blog hence the early morning entry this morning before I head off to the train. Yesterday decided to leave from the new Liverpool South Parkway (Tracy they've given me open tickets from all Liverpool Stations and no invoice btw), very plush, good parking (I figure I won't want to be trogging through rain on return to Liverpool - how right that was!). Very bizarre topiary golf thing going on which I presume was there from the Open's visit to the Wirral .

Contact Monst about the Margaret scene and begin the process of working out travel for her up to Scotland. Not good but has to be done.

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