This was a difficult week for reasons unrelated to the work. Yesterday morning was my grandmother’s funeral which I found harder than I expected – in fact the thought of it had contributed to my feeling distracted and fragile all week and my traditional November man-flu (hey at least it wasn’t Covid this time) didn’t…

I did work Monday and Tuesday but truth be told I was still a bit jet-lagged and while I seem to have been busy I can’t really remember much about what I was doing! Wednesday evening I attended the party to celebrate the 20th anniversary of mySociety at the Conway Hall in London. It was…

It is noon on Thursday 9th November. I’m on a slow train from Ottawa to Toronto – four hours and forty five minutes of staring out of the window at the passing – and for now snowy – landscape. It has been a bit of a roller coaster of a week in Canada.  I got…

For the most part I spent this week focused on the Open Referral work after last week’s distractions.  I wrote some project weeknotes, spent some time with the team grouping and finding themes for the outcomes of our research about barriers to adoption and helped plan our Show and Tell…which I was really pleased with…