Its been an odd couple of days where everything I had planned to do has been changed.

Beth has been off school yesterday and today. I was working from home today but had not catered for a sick little girl needing me every 20 minutes or so. Coupled with that the builders started to put the roof on our extension, so it has been a fairly noisy day. Extension looks good to and looking forward to having a bit more space to work and be creative in.

Tomorrow I am supposed to be at the Youth Spirituality Conference. I was looking forward to this conference quite a bit. Somehow the block booking of 15 of ours has slipped through the net – so if anyone is going and takes good notes I would like to have a look please.

I am now going to Coventry instead to meet with some YFC people regarding our thoughts on integrated mission. This will be an exciting day too, as we look at how national YFC can help local centres move their mission on one step appropriately and realisticaly. I’m quite looking forward to meeting up with people and joining in the dialogue which will, with this group, lead to action.

These 2 days, though, have brought all the stuff back about making plans, being flexible and so on and so on. It has reminded me of an old work practice that I have neglected recently … trying to stay ahead on paperwork so that I could prioritise people properly, by that I mean I can happily spend time with people within worrying about how to meet deadlines and realising, too late, that I will have to stay up till the early hours to get things done.