This evening I took a cycle across Hampstead Heath, as dusk shaded into evening*. The sky was a slight sweep of water-clour blue, shading with delicacy into velvet purple/black. The ponds were sculpted into neat ripples that might have been obsidian.

Looking out over the blaze of London – dominated by the distant Canary Wharf towers – flickering as the conifers blew in the wind. I had a foreground of a couple of rabbits on the grass, unsure as to whether to regard me as a threat or a minor curiosity. An owl hooted from in the forest.

This is something I should do more often…

* If you read some of the horror stories you might think I was taking my life into my hands, but it didn’t feel at all dangerous – the hair on the back of my neck (which I consider highly reliable) remained perfectly flat.

Someone just described me as having “more projects than a four-armed paper-hanger”. I like it. It is apt; perhaps a little too apt, but then the best images slice in a little.

… get used to it.

Have thus far spent this evening in two meetings – one scheduled to start at at 6.30, where I stayed until 7.15. Then jumped on bicycle and belted down Euston Road (which I usually avoid) to the second, arriving just in time to get a useful synopsis of what had been discussed and have a useful chat about other matters.

I suspect with the Green Party involvement multiplying fast, I might have to learn to do this regularly…

Getting into my new role as a school governor, I’ve been to an introductory meeting, which exposed me to a whole new forest of acronyms – the really vital thing is that the school’s SEF (self-evaluation form) is up-to-date, I gather, while school inspectors aren’t that any more, they are Link Improvement Partners…

And I’ve visited the school, which was fascinating (what a job teachers have!) And I’ve got myself a little extra job of my own to help out – which is why I’ve been reading around how to start a school newspaper … the BBC is helpful, while the TES has a good discussion on it.