Just had our annual meeting for the company I do most of my work for. I should be in the Highlands enjoying sunshine and snow and maybe tasting whisky but my schedule was changed to accommodate this and other meetings this week - bit of a pain really but necessary, I suppose. The company needs to get people together to communicate their priorities, our screw ups, the importance of customer loyalty, repeat business, etc. We use the opportunity to see people we have not been seen for months, to say hello to new people and, sadly, to say goodbye to an old friend, Bryn Williams, who is too ill to tour (a stroke stops him writing clearly or moving easily) but who came up from Wales to let us know, which was good but a shame as well. Toru directing a curious business - you become tied up with it for months on end to the exclusion of everything else and then you end the tour and forget the people soon afterwards and do not see many of your colleagues for months - maybe the business is a bit too competitive to make close friendships (too much rivalry).
Anyway, will be away next week on eight day tour, back for Easter Saturday, six days off with maybe a little guiding for American high school groups here at this time and then another eight day tour.
Enough work - always a worry in an unsecure business - but not too much.
E