Course day 3
Thursday, February 2nd, 2006It’s a major bonus being on a course that finishes at 16h30. Especially when it takes only 30 minutes to get home 
(or 45 if you’re going via *Morrisons* with the terrible queues for a few essentials).
On the downside, by mid-afternoon, I had definitely reached the slightly uneasy state of feeling that I was saturated with biscuits. 
Some of the companies that run courses put bowls of sweets and chocolates on every table. *Learning Tree* just have a substantial plate of biscuits on the table by the door, and lots of short tea breaks. And if the biscuits aren’t going down fast enough, the instructor passes them round as well. So all in all, far too many of those crunchy little raisin shortbread biscuits which got rather cloying later in the day.
Not that I feel obliged to make excuses (well not too many anyway), but I do put *some* of the lack of will-power down to post-lunch munchies. I had a conservative lunch today because I’ve got a social tonight with the St Simons music crowd (I qualify because I’m on the sound desk rota). It’s at the vicarage and the vicar’s wife is cooking dinner for us.
I was feeling a bit bad for deserting Tom but it turned out that this evening is the counterpart to the expensive party a few weeks back. Tonight is the night when he and all the other new VPs gets treated to drinks by Goldman Sachs. So no reason to feel guilty there!
Still – a long time to kill before I have to leave though, and it’s taking ages for the heating to get a grip on the 17°C environment that I walked into an hour ago. Might have to go and do some of the much-needed ironing to see if that helps my frozen fingers – ironing in SA was always a good way to work up a sweat!
