Journal

Mislaid Ocado van

Elephant graveyards – and now Ocado van graveyards, apparently. Seen on our way back from Barnes bookshop – and dropping off Amelia at the video store, the film of Amelia Earhart’s life that attracted highly critical reviews, but which I have to say I rather enjoyed. Hilary Swank was the spitting image.  

UEA advance guard UEA 2 Neal’s Yard 1 Neal’s Yard 2  

Lively start to the day with a group of 15 or so MSc students in branding from University of East Anglia, brought in by Robert Jones of Wolff Olins. Later in the day, Sam kindly walked me across to SustainAbility for a Board meeting – and then came and picked me up for the walk across to Neal’s Yard in Covent Garden, for a visit to the osteopath. Afterwards, Sam gave me a couple of bottles of mandarin and frankincense oils, which are meant to be delightfully relaxing and sedative. Can’t wait. Then back for a telecon with SAP, which was fascinating – part of the GRI project.

View from conference room Gone fishing: painting outside the conference room

We held the first of our roundtables on ageing, entrepreneurship and sustainability at Accenture’s offices this evening – and attracted an extraordinarily diverse range of participants. One of the receptionists wanted to know what the theme was, because the guest list was so out-of-the-ordinary. A great sense of momentum, though there’s still work to be done on how these three great areas of interest overlap. Extraordinary feeling reflecting that all of this span out of a short conversation David Grayson I had last year while I waited for a taxi back to Milton Keynes.

Dog leash hook outside Barnes chemist 2BP snowdrops One way through the orchid And another

A fraughtish week, with back pains – bravely tackled by a couple of osteopaths by the name of Ron – and the bronchitis I have been nursing through six flights in the past couple of weeks. Still, this morning I collected a course of antibiotics from the chemist – and was somewhat shocked to find that I don’t have to pay for medicines now I am over 60. 

British Museum lion We were actually looking for TIGERS: Nelmara, Maggie, Amy

Very productive day, with white-board and flipcharts, at 2 Bloomsbury Place, with Nelmara Arbex and Maggie Lee of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), working on the new report. For lunch, we ducked across to the British Museum. After a morning spent discussing TIGERS, of which more anon, all we found were endless lions, Imperial and otherwise.