Tl;dr: SO. TIRED.
For Monday 13th July – Sunday 19th July 2026.
At work:
- Catchment project: making progress on strengthening local relationships for the project, and in parallel exploring avenues to address wider systemic patterns.
- Strategy co-design project: session 3 done.
- Engagement co-ordination project: the project management setup is done and I attended my first team meeting. It’s officially under way!
- Project supporting team development: had the final 121 booked in with one of the team, this is officially closed now. They’re in such a different place from when I started working with them, it’s nice to see.
- Participative democracy project (voluntary): a couple of chats, ticking away at this in the background.
Deliverables this week:
- Strategy co-design project, workshop #3 delivered in person in mid Wales. It was a good session! Compiling the notes is now under way.
- Case study presentation on the women’s health website for Wales at the ministerial event at the Temple of Peace. I got a laugh with my XKCD comic (below), but it also made the point I wanted to make.
Development this week:
- Dementia conference: compiled the session outline and costings, and awaiting client green light.
At home:
- Lots of driving to far flung places in a hot car this week, and 3 days out of the home office, my energy levels are shot… Not helped by helping a friend with shopping on Saturday, which was her only available day between two work placements, and I got so peopled out my social battery was empty for the whole weekend. Still actually shattered going into the new week.
- No Welsh summer revision for many weeks now. I keep carrying the time over into the following week. I need to figure out why I can’t get my brain to focus on this!
- 2 pilates this week, I bailed on the Friday one in order to stay in bed and sleep some more. I have been SO TIRED this week, I’ve been woken up a lot by the trains passing (which after more than 6 years living here I don’t normally hear any more). No HIIT, I haven’t got the werewithal to get up in time to be at the gym by 6.45.
- A morning swim on Sunday with just one of the other swim girls, we wandered down when we woke up and had a lovely dip to start the day. So that was nice.
Image credit: XKCD