Oh, and another thing...

I was invited to go and give a presentation on ‘our’ CPD programme at a mini-conference this week – a great opportunity to talk to the people who are going to be involved in making sure this thing works.

However, it did not go well - you shouldn’t invite people to make presentations when you are going to forget to tell them where and when to come (leaving them to find out by accident and then have to call the hotel and fish you out of breakfast to check its all still on) and when you do arrive and get started not to listen and blatantly read the newspaper instead. Several other people had conversations of their own while I was clicking through my powerpoint and two had a argument about something or other while the rest managed to either catch forty winks or fiddle with sweetie papers and bottles of water.

I was asked to wrap it up way before the time I’d been told I’d been allocated which was disappointing but most were kind enough to wake up for the end and give a few half-hearted claps which turned into something marginally better when the Chairman, chivvied them into making more of an effort. After hearing, ‘ thank you Carol for telling us about this important development’, I slunk out of there, clutching my handouts, 'thinking what a waste of time.'

To top it off, a fellow NMCM colleague who was there as well as a former Malamulo tutor who remained silent throughout the whole thing. This morning FellowColleague asked me how I thought it went yesterday... ‘slightly disappointing’ I mumbled, trying to think of something more positive to say. ‘Ah’, she said, ‘I think it is because the group voted not to have you come for the presentation because they felt it wasn’t relevant but the Chairman let you come so it was a surprise that you were there.'

Oh, well that makes it all alright then.