Today I’ve been mostly looking at systems for staff inductions and also still checking the fingerprint recognition system that is being developed. Both things moved forward, but I feel that I need to get quite a bit more done for the inductions before Monday.

I’m writing this from the bar of the Solihull Holiday inn. I’m down here for some business training tomorrow and Sunday. I’m quite looking forward to it – it’s all about implementation and getting things done. I really need a bit of that. I feel like I get quite a lot done, but a lot of other stuff slips, so this should be interesting

So I’m sat in the hotel bar, rocking my swanky new hearing aids and realising that there are some noisy old buggers at the bar. There’s one bloke telling a visiting American with pride that he’s never really travelled much and that Britain is far too overcrowded. I may take a moment to turn them off and enjoy the silence.

I got here lateish, after 8pm, so I checked in and immediately went down to the gym. This is a whole new world for me, previously an evening at a hotel would consist of mostly staying in the bar for the evening. Instead the first hour was spent in the gym, only getting to the bar at 10. Shocking behaviour, I know.

I did four miles in 46 minutes. It’s about a minute better than I was doing at the start of the week, and I’m rubbish on a treadmill. So I was quite pleased. Running outside, whenever possible, is much much better. It was just so convenient with the gym, given that I don’t know the town that well. And it was dark. And I’d just driven for two hours.

So it’s another weekend away, and I’m feeling a bit bad about leaving Jude with the children again. Next week I’m at home (there’s a family birthday do on the Saturday night), then away again for two weekends. I’m very conscious that I need to pull my weight during the week.