Effectively it's a secret?

Surfing the Internet whilst on the way home after delivering a day's training about running effective meetings in Manchester isn't yielding any information about yesterday's HEFCE meeting to decide this year's funding allocations.
Thinking aloud - is this because:

• no decision has been made yet? And if not why not?
• they're waiting to tell the institutions/organisations first? Which means it's not looking good for the support providers.
• or maybe they'd also like some help running effective meetings?

Note: today's staff development hasn't been specifically "Running Effective Meetings in Manchester", it just happens to have been in Manchester as that's where the client's based...

New Team Building Exercises

Although some might think this is a little sad, I spent part of my holiday working out how the cleaning staff constructed these (and others) daily towel sculptures. There'll be some instructions and team building exercises based on these images written over the next week or two - available "origami-style"!

Minus Seven!

Well that's it - I'm fed up of weather like a dwarf-less Snow White pantomime; so assuming Manchester airport's open (and the M62 is clear) it's scuba-diving for two weeks in the Maldives and hoping that this strange white stuff has all gone by January 20th.

Snow work without flyer

Due to yesterday's closure of Southampton airport, I've had to postpone today's "Moving from Group Work to Team Work" workshop on the South Coast and stay home watching cricket on Sky instead.

Jet2 have agreed to refund my airfare to/from LBA, but DeVere Hotels are still charging me £95 as I didn't (couldn't) give 24 hours cancellation notice and won't take my weather-enforced non-appearance into account for any future booking when the training day gets rearranged.

Am now wondering how the snow is costing British industry £oos of millions a day (ref: Sky News during the lunch interval) since although I've incurred some expenses without any income, DeVere have benefitted by that same amount without incurring any costs, and the college still has the funds they were going to pay me, all the money involved is still in the system somewhere.
Isn't it?