Tl;dr: Still in post-flu catchup mode but clawing my way back, nearly there.
For Monday 26th October – Sunday 1st November 2026.
At work:
- Deep listening project: lots and lots on this project this week, doing infographic visuals, many meetings with partners and with my project team, and making some slides for an upcoming steering group meeting presentation.
- Engagement coordination project: is on a bit of a hiatus so a quieter week apart from the regular check-in meeting.
- Designing a partnership workshop: supporting a colleague to think through a facilitated session with a client, for a sector-wide regional board.
- Catchment partnership project: is picking up from tickover, the new project manager has some ideas and so I have some new work to develop on this as a result, it’s exciting.
- Board away day: making the arrangements to gather service user insights to inform the discussions on the day.
- Strategy co-design project: arranging 121 calls with key stakeholders.
Deliverables this week:
- Deep listening project: info sheet in English and Welsh for community researcher recruitment, and slides for the steering group meeting next week.
Development this week:
- Team reflection and learning day: scoping conversation with the client, to inform a session outline and costed proposal.
At home:
- No Welsh because half term (but I didn’t catch up on the 2 sessions I’ve missed yet, time passes so so SO fast).
- No HIIT because I have so much to catch up on I’ve been going straight into work early every morning. No pilates because my favourite teachers are both away this week. No swim, at high tide time I was turning the garage upside down clearing space for my friend to store her motorbike with mine over the winter.
- I did go bouldering twice towards the end of the week, to make up for the lack of movement and exercise up till then. Also because it’s as fun as I imagined it would be, I really enjoy it. AND on Sunday I saw two separate sets of people I know at the climbing gym, so it was a lovely social thing as well.
- Halloween weekend! The National Museum is putting on fancy movie screenings at the moment, I went to see Hitchcock’s The Birds (which was unintentionally funny), and after dinner went to a spooky concert of Tim Burton movies’ music at Llandaff Cathedral. What a very lovely day that was altogether.
Hwb – defnyddio fy Nghymraeg (hub – using my Welsh):
Weekly Welsh homework to find something to talk about in class (in Welsh ofc).
- Going to prep some words about the new cattos.
- I need to keep this section in the weeknotes because otherwise I will totally forget!
Anime fan art by Meduzanol on Goodfon