Meeting new people

Today I have been out of the office almost all day long, the reason behind this was a meeting regarding how do develop our surrounding for our youth?

"Leader" an organization who is working with development took the initiative to this meeting, as Barbro who called me last week expressed it: “I want your brain and your thoughts”. It did not turn out to be as brutal as it might sound, after a nice lunch together with six other “youngsters” with a cup of coffee in my hand I was ready to discuss how to change my surrounding! We spoke about things like “what attracts young people?”, “where do they hang out?” and “how can we improve their spare time?”. It was quite interesting to take an outsiders point of view and analyze myself and the habits I had when I was younger. I remember taking two busses who each took 45 minutes and then having to wait 30 minutes to get in to the venue where the band I sort of was interested in hearing were playing. Then me and my friends normally would have to leave about 20 minutes before the whole thing ended just so we could catch one of the two busses home again! When I was younger I didn´t have any problems with travelling, that´s for sure! All this hassle just because we didn´t have anything better to do, and as a 15-yearold I did not want to spend my Saturday night at home with my parents. Which 15-yearsold really do?

Anyways, we discussed these matters and how the society could improve in order to get the youngsters of today active and happy about the society they are growing up in, it was a great afternoon with many different ideas, thoughts, opinions and dreams to fulfill. I got really inspired and can´t wait until next gathering!

Over&Out
Sara

All hail our glorious leader

Now, you remember that on Monday, Marianne posted a particularly peculiar picture of me? I thought it was time to redress the balance! But then I reconsidered, as she is currently spending time promoting my marvellous book, It'll Be Fine, which may be bought on www.amazon.co.uk . I was going to mention Marianne's inability to tell jokes - she knows a very long joke about a man sitting in a fridge, but she is completely unable to tell it. Well, that doesn't stop her trying. Tenacity is normally an admirable trait, however one can have too much of a good thing...



Anyway, since she's working so hard on my behalf, I've decided not to mention any of that, or to post this silly picture of her and Pixie.

I've now got a whiteboard and some coat hooks in my office, which is nice. I am told that the whiteboard markers are arriving some time next week, so in the mean time I'm sitting and looking wistfully at it, whilst quietly making little pen-squeaking noises and imagining all the witty things I could write on it. Roll on next week...

I have heard through the grapevine that our shorts have won the acclaim of a well known and long established author. The shorts bring together the ideas of the whole company, but as I am editor, director and often cameraman as well, I think I am justified in feeling smug.

In other news, the Bombadil dog currently smells like waterlogged shagpile.

Posted by John