Week 34, 2022

Monday 22 February to Sunday 28 August 2022.

These notes are inspired by David Buck's first week notes in 4 months. It’s nearly 5 months for me with the last few just being bullet points, which I’ll use to ease myself back in:

Civil service stuff

Cross-government community stuff

Attended the UK Gov Camp 2023 organisers kick off meeting,
Chat with civil service colleague about digitalising civil service write round process,

Chat with a fellow One Team Gov member about some interesting work he's doing, Hub team delivery manager

Jen’s away so this is my 1st week of attending all team ceremonies, rather than just the ones in my normal 1230 to 1700 working hours,
Fortnightly end / start of sprint ceremonies on Tuesday - no surprises,
HMPPS delivery manager community of practice - I ran a lean coffee,
Origins of the hub chat with original member,
Digital & Communications manager monthly meetup,
Trip to HMP Erlestoke to deliver training and saw the Westbury White Horse.

A huge white horse made of chalk cut into the side of a hill.

Freelance community and unconference stuff

Ran the monthly community manager's meet-up,
Got paid for my first freelance unconference organiser job I did last month,
Chat with fellow Indiependent community member about asynchronous unconferences,
Chat with another Indiependent community member about a training deliver opportunity.

Personal stuff

Lunch with David & Nour,
Stopped my Instapaper subscription,
Attended Eczema clinic,
Visit Odd son and family,
Attended Proms Spectacular at the 3 counties showground,
Visited Cheltenham for the morning.