10 September - back at the Grange for the Board of Trustees meeting along with Nattasha Freeman our President Elect. Nattasha also attended the NSS event and I think she’s beginning to get a flavour of what delights are in store for her after the AGM in November when she takes over the presidential role.  A reminder to all, the AGM is on 11 November at 4.00pm at the Hotel Marriott in Leicester.

11 September – I’m in the FT! Well, a letter issued by our media team responding to a story about the Better Regulation Executive and small businesses. It’s good to see our media strategy having an impact, as not all of our responses to the press make it into print. And it’s even more satisfying to know that our responses are being read – it was the first thing HSE Chief Exec Geoffrey Podger mentioned to IOSH chief Exec Rob Strange when they spoke this morning.

13/14 September – reading through the Council agenda and supporting papers in readiness for the Council meeting next week. Also having a look at some of the threads posted on the members discussion forum (which I do regularly, by the way) which makes me think that the next council meeting will be very lively. Also of course some time was spent in updating this blog.

On a personal note, I’ve been having major problems with my desktop PC over the last couple of months.  It finally gave up the ghost (big blue screen of death) week before last while viewing a CD-ROM. Why mention this? Well of course we all learn from our mistakes (don’t we?) and I’ll remember in future to back up all important data so I don’t lose it – seems the data on the hard drive is irrecoverable and I’ve lost everything – so this was clearly a 4 star stupidity error (see stupid aid week event in my last post). It will only become a 5 star stupidity error if I do it again. Thank goodness for the laptop my  children bought me for Christmas last year! At least I can access/send emails - although I seem to have lost some 3,000 plus that were stored on the desktop.  Anyone out there expecting a Christmas card later this year might go without – personal addresses went too!