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Got up this morning at 6am, which is quite normal for a work day. However, I wasn't going to work. Instead I was going into Liverpool. Which is not somewhere I'd normally choose to go, even though it is only 30 minutes on the train.
I was going there for a training course entitled "Confident Communication Skills for Women". This was being held as part of the LibDem Federal Spring Conference, which started today. The conference is being held at the (not 100% complete yet) Liverpool Arena and Conference Centre. It is going to be a brilliant venue once the finishing touches are applied.
I managed to get up to Hartford station with plenty of time to get a ticket, and found that even though the National Rail website had told me it would be £15.90 return it was only £11.90. The train arrived 4 minutes late, but it did arrive in Liverpool Lime Street 7 minutes early. As I didn't need to be at the Conference Centre until just before 10am, I went and collapsed in a Caffe Nero.
When I got to the CC, I was met by Vicky would had my day badge — not allowed into the building without a valid pass, and as the registration desk wasn't open until 2pm. I'm not going to go into details of the course, as I still haven't got my head round it all, and there is a lot of stuff I want to follow up on, such as "Transactional Analysis". It also gave me some good pointers into defusing the situation between myself and the MFH at work. So for that alone it was worth going.
After the course finished, I pootled off down to the exhibition, and signed up to DELGA, which is the LibDem's LGBTA. I also spent a fair old while chatting to the people on the North-west party stand.
At 17:45, it was the drinks reception, and I had a glass of wine for the first time in over 18 months. I really don't know why I bothered as I now have a stinking headache, and I didn't really like it either. Following the reception, was the party rally. This is a time for a few inspirational speeches, including one from Nick Clegg. He did mention, and make no apologies for the debacle in Westminster the other day. The general theme though was a sustained attack on the performance of Labour controlled councils.
I'm now tempted to go to the autumn conference properly, but there's a long time before that.
Alice.
I was going there for a training course entitled "Confident Communication Skills for Women". This was being held as part of the LibDem Federal Spring Conference, which started today. The conference is being held at the (not 100% complete yet) Liverpool Arena and Conference Centre. It is going to be a brilliant venue once the finishing touches are applied.
I managed to get up to Hartford station with plenty of time to get a ticket, and found that even though the National Rail website had told me it would be £15.90 return it was only £11.90. The train arrived 4 minutes late, but it did arrive in Liverpool Lime Street 7 minutes early. As I didn't need to be at the Conference Centre until just before 10am, I went and collapsed in a Caffe Nero.
When I got to the CC, I was met by Vicky would had my day badge — not allowed into the building without a valid pass, and as the registration desk wasn't open until 2pm. I'm not going to go into details of the course, as I still haven't got my head round it all, and there is a lot of stuff I want to follow up on, such as "Transactional Analysis". It also gave me some good pointers into defusing the situation between myself and the MFH at work. So for that alone it was worth going.
After the course finished, I pootled off down to the exhibition, and signed up to DELGA, which is the LibDem's LGBTA. I also spent a fair old while chatting to the people on the North-west party stand.
At 17:45, it was the drinks reception, and I had a glass of wine for the first time in over 18 months. I really don't know why I bothered as I now have a stinking headache, and I didn't really like it either. Following the reception, was the party rally. This is a time for a few inspirational speeches, including one from Nick Clegg. He did mention, and make no apologies for the debacle in Westminster the other day. The general theme though was a sustained attack on the performance of Labour controlled councils.
I'm now tempted to go to the autumn conference properly, but there's a long time before that.
Alice.
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