Daddy's girl.... Story telling outside outside the shed... and one of dad's fans!Yo Friends, Roamers and Countryfile fans,
Quite a busy week at work - as I had to cram the week's work into two days.
Spent two days on a course being hedgumucated about how to be lean.... not in the sense of being 'trim' you understand in the old beautilicious blobby areas of one's body, or in the unique way one can lean up a wall or doorway and watch the World go by, but in the sense of applying a lean approach ie measuring how efficient you really are and finding better ways to be more productive. There was lots of 'doing' which makes a nice change.
On Thursday off to Manchestaaaw Conference Centre on the train - and with my new 'lean thinking' head on, spent 15 minutes trying to work out how to get out of Piccadilly station, then another 20 minutes or so walking round the block twice in a figure of 8 before asking one of the locals the right way!
It was quite an evangelical experience - for once it wasn't 'experts' standing up and pontificating - just ordinary nurses - and even a guy from 'Estates' (for those of us in the NHS who know these boys you will be a little :-O when I say) was actually excited about the new 'productive' way of working!? What is happening here?? The 'NHS BLOGDOCTOR' has a cynical take on it - if any of you want to understand more - one of his comments include "Well done Nicky, you have tidied a cupboard."
I was exhausted with all the hallelujah style praising going on, but all in all a good three days to mentally prepare me for my new job starting in a couple of weeks. So, back to work on Friday where reality bites - and spent a very unproductive day :-/..... got home and wrote on 'Facebook' that I was looking forward to a 'couch potato' styley weekend - which of course was immediately spotted by my Canadian emigrant friend Helen who wrote on my 'wall' that she was pleased to see I was putting my learning into practice...oops!
Quite a busy week at work - as I had to cram the week's work into two days.
Spent two days on a course being hedgumucated about how to be lean.... not in the sense of being 'trim' you understand in the old beautilicious blobby areas of one's body, or in the unique way one can lean up a wall or doorway and watch the World go by, but in the sense of applying a lean approach ie measuring how efficient you really are and finding better ways to be more productive. There was lots of 'doing' which makes a nice change.
On Thursday off to Manchestaaaw Conference Centre on the train - and with my new 'lean thinking' head on, spent 15 minutes trying to work out how to get out of Piccadilly station, then another 20 minutes or so walking round the block twice in a figure of 8 before asking one of the locals the right way!
It was quite an evangelical experience - for once it wasn't 'experts' standing up and pontificating - just ordinary nurses - and even a guy from 'Estates' (for those of us in the NHS who know these boys you will be a little :-O when I say) was actually excited about the new 'productive' way of working!? What is happening here?? The 'NHS BLOGDOCTOR' has a cynical take on it - if any of you want to understand more - one of his comments include "Well done Nicky, you have tidied a cupboard."
I was exhausted with all the hallelujah style praising going on, but all in all a good three days to mentally prepare me for my new job starting in a couple of weeks. So, back to work on Friday where reality bites - and spent a very unproductive day :-/..... got home and wrote on 'Facebook' that I was looking forward to a 'couch potato' styley weekend - which of course was immediately spotted by my Canadian emigrant friend Helen who wrote on my 'wall' that she was pleased to see I was putting my learning into practice...oops!
I have spent a nice weekend dedicated to Pater - who was 78 yesterday. It's quite an achievement as he has tried really hard to leave the planet a couple of times. I'm hoping he lasts a little longer as I got him an annual subscription to the woodcarving mag' ;-)...and a nice toolbag for his carving tools - we're still working on our pieces together. Ian got him two fab tomes of WWI and WWII photographs - so he did very well.
Off to watch the final of 'The Apprentice' now - hope your weekend was a good un
Have a good week :-)
Off to watch the final of 'The Apprentice' now - hope your weekend was a good unHave a good week :-)
PS link to more photos on Facebook here:
Kimmie x
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