Saturday, 16 February 2008

To sleep, perchance to drown

I fell asleep in the bath last night. I am not sure what that said about the week I have just had which was actually quite a good one. I had a very good session with one of our partner organisations sorting out the legalities of all our arrangements and getting them in writing and signed, a first for everyone. Not so successful with the local authority who are still trying to do us down at every turn. We opened a brand new service at their insistence on which they had received full costings and given verbal agreement. Now that commitments have been made to all the service users they have told us that we will only get two thirds the amount discussed and unearthed some correspondence dated 2006 which they say constitutes the basis of an agreement. We could just withdraw the service but that would not be fair on our clients who after all are the reason we exist in the first place.
Lots of movement on the bird front this morning including a warbler that remained completely unidentifiable beyond that. Blue tits on the birdtable and startlings and sparrows on the nut feeders so we still have some very confused feathered friends.

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