Following on from this post – I’ll try to blog each week:

• Tuesday 13th: being interviewed about my experiences of Edinburgh, and how tourists and residents see different aspects of the city
• Tuesday 13th to Thursday 15th: on this course, which was ‘enhanced’ by two fire-alarms and freezing our collective bits off in the snow
• Thursday 15th: completing two funding applications, one of which succeeded. (The other will be decided in about 3 month’s time.)

• Friday 16th: can’t remember
• Saturday 17th: spinning, then writing up community council minutes
• Sunday 18th: cycling lesson with a colleague; finishing community council minutes
• Monday 19th: researching government reports for SoC colleagues
• Tuesday 20th: travel to Worcester, while proof-reading a colleague’s writing
• Wednesday 21st: applying for extra nursing care funding for my mother, reviewing my mother’s finances
• Thursday 22nd: travel back to Edinburgh, while doing lots of community council work, then meeting up with a colleague who is on medical leave
• Friday 23rd: meeting about some possible public engagement and community work; drafting a report on a recent project; supervising my MSc student and associated administrivia; meeting to scope some report-writing about Napier work; small edits to a website for a Napier event website; preparations for other funding applications; work towards another event at Napier; responding to a request in digital governance research; responding to an announcement that a funding application was successful;
• Saturday 24th: spinning; then community council work and writing up community council minutes
• Sunday 25th: finishing community council minutes, cycling lesson with a colleague, responding to the Scottish Government consultation on electoral reform

Next week’s highlights should include

• Monday: The Independent Commission on Referendums: who, what, why and how – Edinburgh Seminar
• Wednesday: Scottish Government Online Identity Assurance – Show and Tell
• going to the theatre with my much better half
• dinner with the prof, her husband and some of their friends
• more writing about the MIL-DEM project
• possibly meeting up with friends in St Andrews

Buzz!