Nothing is quite straightforward

Yesterday, CBS held a long awaited meeting to appoint a Business Crime Reduction Partnership Board Chair to carry the work forward. We set dates for its next meeting and for a stakeholder general meeting, neither of which I am going to be around to take part in, which is a pity, as I've overseen all the process from revising to constitution through to arranging meetings that never quite worked to allow us to make progress. Now I feel like the midwife who has to stop work because she's done her shift, but the labour is not complete and the baby still not delivered. Ah well, you do what you can.

I'm still having a lot of problems linking our domain names with the Google Sites servers, which for no sensible reason is still not recognising all our Welsh top level domain names. A price to be paid perhaps for being an early adopter.

Today, in preparation for her forthcoming shoulder op call the surgeon's secretary only to be told that it has to be postponed for a week due to recent an influx of urgent cases. We weren't prepared for this or its consquences. For several different reasons it's already two months overdue. With the passage of time the chances of success diminish. Will it be worth all the pain and hassle eventually?

I had an email from Peter in Fuengirola to say that Linda's hip replacement surgery had gone well. It was a frustratingly painful and long time coming for her. How she survived the year long interregnum as church warden and reader is a testimony to her courage and stubborn determination not to shirk her responsibilities in seeing an appointment made and everything running smooothly ad interim. Their new chaplain started last month, and only last week came news of an surgery date. A goodly period of rest and rehab will do her a world of good.