Sometimes the pressure of getting on with things can take it’s tole. Things have been pretty busy lately. Getting o with the radio station brings with it a huge set of issues that have to be sorted out, and a wide set of issues that have to be resolved. I’ve always recognised that there is a limit to how much detail I can hold in my head, so at some point I have to resort to instinct and gut feeling.
So what have I been doing. Well, since I las blogged things have moved on at quite a pace. DemonFM is developing a real identity for itself and is starting to feel much more cohesive. Despite what some for the volunteers have claimed in recent weeks, I’m feeling very relaxed that the impact that the station is having is growing. However, I really do need to develop this line and communicate it more effectively. It is a while since I’ve blogged on the DemonFM website, so a couple of supportive lines would not go amiss.
Next has been my work as a Governor at Sherard Primary school in Melton Mowbray. This is perhaps the most rewarding activity that I’m engaged in, and it would be nice to develop a sense of satisfaction with the role, but we are restless, and want to move things forward. The problems as intractable, the solutions are developmental, and the changes that we have to bring about are finely balanced. But when it comes to creating a supportive and sustainable learning environment for our children, I’m not prepared to compromise. The school is making consistent and sustained progress, and if I can help to bring that environment about, then I am more than happy. At some point I want to stick my neck-out more and to take more from the local authority, who are shy of any kind of innovation, and really give more back to the staff and the pupils at the school, who are doing a great job and achieving so much with so little.
After this is my Labour Party activity, which is largely based on the on-line process of Tweeting, Facebook and running the local party website. I know that I have started to get through to people, because I’m now being moaned at for being consistently partisan in my Tweets. Well I’m not apologising for that, and people can always unsubscribed. Life under a Tory government would be unimaginable. The old horrors of arrogance, smugness and an unpleasant disrespect for ordinary people would creep back in to our national politics. Believe me, I know this would happen because I live in Melton Mowbray, a heartland Tory area if there was ever one.
So it looks like I have my work cut out for me over the next couple of months – blogging about it will be an important way of making sense of it all. I just hope I can keep it all going.
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