uppers and downers

The ‘downer’ is that I have had a phone call from the Copthorne Hotel Cardiff saying that, as there is only one of me, I cannot attend the musical performance at the hotel this evening. Nobody has ever suggested that I be cloned, but it is something to think about, then there could be lots of me. No rude comments please! Anyway, I was about to launch into a lengthy rant about discrimination against sad and lonely people when away from the warmth and cosiness of home and favouring couples over everyone else. But then I realised she meant I was the only person who would have been in the audience. Nobody else had booked. No rant then, just a negotiation over dinner and prices and the suchlike. I will dine, I will sleep, I will break the fast in the morning. Perhaps someone could sing me a lullaby?

The ‘upper’ is that one of my colleagues in west Wales is writing the WCVA evidence for the National Assembly for Wales inquiry into ‘overview and scrutiny’ at local government level. That takes a little pressure off me, which is helpful, because I have to pen a response to two other consultations and the deadlines loom. Oh, yes, this WCVA is the Welsh one, not the Windy City one.