Decluttering, detoxing, rationalising... however you want to put it, January is traditionally a time for taking a look at your life and clearing out some of the rubbish. I usually try to do a bit of decluttering shortly after taking down the Christmas decorations, but I also tend to look again at how I’m spending my time. I want to rid myself of temporal as well as spatial clutter.
I see Bevan’s Run has finally made it into the Guardian. They posted a story on Sunday night, after the six-day run was over. (That’s two days after I asked “Why hasn’t Bevan’s Run made the nationals?”)
I should offer warm thanks to Stagecoach Oxfordshire for providing me with a perfect example of the behaviour I’ve blogged about: responding slowly to direct complaints but paying rapt attention to social media.
How far would you go to save the NHS? One man is running all the way from Cardiff to London. Dr Clive Peedell, a consultant in the NHS, started his journey at the Aneurin Bevan statue on Queen Street, Cardiff, and since then has run (in stages, obviously) all the way to Witney.
Tomorrow evening sees the return of the Oxford Girl Geek Dinners and I’m pleased to be one of the speakers. It’s being held at the White October offices in East Oxford.