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  • Weeknotes S3e11

    Really late with Weeknote Eleven — for all sorts of reasons. Some personal, some professional and some just plain embarrassing. I’m considering putting these notes on hiatus to be honest — they don’t work as well for me in this role as it is hard to capture what I do. It all feels too ephemeral to really report on.…

  • Weeknotes S3e10

    This week I was channeling Jack Kerouac. I managed visits to Defra offices in Worcester, Weybridge, Crewe and Warrington. Caught nine trains, missed two connections, stayed in the most run down (but friendly) Travelodge of my career and witnessed an epic road rage incident. It was an interesting week though — it started with conversations about an…

  • Weeknotes S3e09

    A picture tells a thousand words. Well this week will forever be associated with rather larger and more depressing events than my working week. I made the mistake of checking in on the US election at 3am when I woke up and that was the last sleep I got that night! There are all sorts of…

  • Weeknotes S3e08

    Still in firefighter mode this week a lot of the time but really started to feel like I was making some impact across the board — was hard work but really felt worthwhile. Also found myself using ‘we’ when talking about Defra which is a pretty big moment. I think part of the positive feeling was I…

  • Weeknotes S3e07

    interveneɪntəˈviːn/verb take part in something so as to prevent or alter a result or course of events This is my word of the week. I feel like Robert McCalls younger, weaker and dumber brother — ‘The Intervener’. I’m Captain Carrot — the stick comes from elsewhere. My role is crystallising around a particular remit and it is something new…