I’m afraid blogging is going to have to take a back seat between now and the end of the year as I focus on meeting a crucial deadline for my publisher.
I also have important commitments as chair of trustees for Headway Cambridgeshire which supports adults with an acquired brain injury. Tomorrow I am in London attending a course for new chairs of charity trustees which is being held at the premises of distinguished law firm Farrer & Co.
Since I’ve taken on this role, I’ve participated in a CEO appraisal and organised a skills’ audit of the full board so members can be given appropriate and fulfilling roles on sub-committees.
I am also encouraging our very talented trustees to act as 
ambassadors for the organisation whenever possible to support our fantastic CEO and service users.
In a couple of weeks I shall be joining one of our patrons, John Hayes, Shadow Minister of Innovation, Universities and Skills, at the Charity Champion Awards 2008 where he has been shortlisted to win an 
award. Jungle Queen (she is as far as I am concerned) Esther Rantzen will be hosting the event and I look forward to meeting her there.
I nominated John on behalf of Headway Cambridgeshire for the fantastic work he does in supporting us. I made a video which you can see here showing a fund-raising cricket match he held last summer in his Lincolnshire village.
I shall also be going to 10 Downing Street with my MEP Robert Sturdy to present a letter of petition calling for a Europe-wide impact assessment on new pesticide legislation which could devastate the agricultural industry. I wonder if it will be as exciting as the last time I went there and met BBC political editor Nick Robinson standing on the doorstep and later bumped into the Mongolian Ambassador and explained to him the worrying situation of post office closures.
Now, I must get back to writing my next chapter ….
Keep up the good work Ellee.
Thanks Jeremy, I hope you are well. I’m also trying to drop a dress size between now and Christmas and am working hard at the gym. I must admit I am enjoying it, but just wish there were more hours in the day.
You are busy – but all sounds very positive!
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You’re so busy, I’m surprised you have time to blog at all!
I’m sure you’ll enjoy it though.
Dragonstar, that’s certainly the case at the moment. But I shall be updating my movements on twitter if you want to follow me there:
http://twitter.com/home
I shall certainly write posts as and when I can.
Good luck with your endeavours Ellee. You do indeed lead a busy life and blogging takes quite a bit of time so must of needs go to the bottom of the list. I hope you will be touching bases with your blog fans on occasion.
And I was so looking forward to your football comments!
I’ve just seen that Esther has been evicted from the jungle. I’m sure many will be asking her about it.
The trustees course was absolutely fantastic and I am all fired up with inspiring ideas to develop and move the board forward.
Robert may be joined by influential politicians equally concerned about the EU pesticide legislation. I’m very much looking forward to this and hope to make a video which I will upload on my blog.
Dear Ellee – I’m so pleased to hear that you’re now Chair of Headway Cambridgeshire. With you and Andrew at the helm they could be in no better hands! All the very best, Kate
You are amazing.
Hope it all goes well and according to plan. And come back to blogging in the New Year when you have more time.
Kate, that is very, very kind of you. I do hope you are well too and that you can attend our ball next Feb.
Reluctant Blogger – I think “mad” is the word!
Goodness. Ellee, do you ever find time to sleep?! Good luck with everything – you are a marvel.
I hope that this is only a temporary break from blogging! Many thanks for your kind donation to my marathon campaign. I’m glad to count you as one of my business supporters and have added some spiel on my blog accordingly.
Good on ya
however I’m sure with your abilities and a woman’s multi-tasking skills, you” find time to get everything done and blog a little too
I’m trying to drop a dress size too, Ellee.
Good luck.
Merry Christmas Elle!
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