Travel sickness
Saturday, July 10, 2010 Can't wait to go on holiday at the end of the month. I am cream crackered - and the heat isn't helping (which is why I'm taking my family to Iceland and Norway!).
In the last week alone I've been to Cork, Dublin, London, Birmingham and Bristol. I went to Birmingham (above) on Wednesday to confirm plans for the Conservative conference in October but it was all done in a mad rush after I discovered (on Tuesday) that the deadline for Fringe listings in the conference brochure was midnight on Friday.
I was in London all day Thursday. (I got home at 2.30 on Friday morning following dinner with Antony Worrall Thompson and 60 or so other people at the Royal Academy of Arts in Piccadilly.) And I was in Bristol yesterday so I had very little time to complete the online registration form. Eventually I beat the deadline for Fringe listings by just one hour.
We'll announce details of our conference events shortly. In the meantime I can report that we'll be hosting two events at the 2010 Conservative conference: a speaker meeting at 1.00pm on Monday October 4, and a reception/party from 6.00-9.00pm the same day. Make a note in your diary now!
Next week - following our boat party in London on Wednesday - I'm off to Liverpool to check out venues for the Lib Dem conference in September. Thankfully I don't have to go to Manchester as well - we're giving the Labour conference a miss this year.
Reader Comments (3)
I trust that you will enjoy your break. But I feel that you will be unable to resist the temptation to 'see what is going on', via your blackberry or whatever. The sensible things to do are these:
1. Have one of your staff post daily on this site, "Simon is on holiday until ......"
2. Do not look at this site at all while you are away.
3. Choose a certain time interval (say, one half hour before going to bed, if you are sober) to check those significant things which matter to you, but merely look.
4. One of the great things about being on holiday is that you can be CONTEMPLATIVE. Allow your mind to drift around uncontrolled. Personally, most of my best ideas arise when I am in CONTEMPLATIVE MODE.
I am sure that you know all this, but it is nevertheless worth saying.
It is sad that Forest is not coming to Manchester. The Labour Conference is not really the important thing - Manchester is the important thing - the Labour Conf is just an excuse for being in Manchester. However, Liverpool is not far away, so a Forest event in Liverpool is near enough.
Enjoy your trip. Let's hope that your boat does not hit an iceberg. After all, climate change must mean that there are loads of them about!
Junican - no danger of icebergs, they're now all melted!
Enjoy your break, Simon.
Katla stirring?