What a week....

Did a training day on Monday (as previously mentioned)...attended a county conference on Tuesday, on teenage pregnancy and parenting....about 200 females there (social work and related fields are so women orientated...even so only one or two men is unusual...) I managed to sit in the front row beside one of the men...he seemed different, alone....made the assumption he was one of the speakers, and made small talk..yes he was, I checked the list, a visiting professor, and expert in teenage pregnancy!! advising government on policy...I glanced at his name..oh you must be Richard...(so pushy) and we chatted a while....

He got up to give his talk, which was mostly about sex, why people have sex, or at least research into why teenagers have sex, and related topics such as programmes on Abstinence, or Delay..of which he was not in favour...how to give advice on sex or abortion and not take a moral stance...good and bad reasons for having sex....which are not obvious...and then he mentioned the subject of pleasure, that not enough is taught in schools about pleasure, and that actually if a girl is having sex because she wants pleasure, she should be told it is ok to do it herself, because if you can do it yourself you don't need to get off with some grubby boy on a Saturday night as the chances are you can do it better yourself. That bought some slightly nervous titters from his female audience....it was a riveting talk (at least I thought so..favourite topics, sex and chocolate...) but strangely, when he came back and sat down next to me, I wasn't sure what to chat to him about any more...

Anyway...I was up early to drive into Cambridgeshire to run more training, back in the office on Thursday..oh yes, training volunteers!!! then Friday trying to tie everything up to prepare for a week's leave.

I had hoped to see the guy who does our website for us (for free..love him) at around 3pm, but he didn't turn up, until I was closing up at just gone 4.3opm ready to party and be in a holiday mood...so I opened up the pc again, made him a coffee, and said, 'So, how's life?'

......................................anyway, I finally left the office at 7pm having spent 10 mins on the website and over two hours on his personal problems, finishing with writing a witness statement for his solicitor having heard call which came in on his mobile phone.....it's the last time I ask anyone how their life is...

Except for Liz, I asked her that on a late night call which finished at about 2am!!! But we giggled a lot and boy, is that one good way to end a stressful week....