Bad Week

Well the last few days have definitely been fairly hectic so I haven’t had much time for blogging with everything as usual happening at once. I once heard a minister preach oh how if we were in God’s will for us then all our time usage would all nicely dovetail. As a result that thought always comes back to haunt me now on weeks like the one just passed. So if it’s true I guess I must be in the wrong place at the moment! Firstly we had some events in our area’s local group of churches following on from the Women’s World Day of Prayer last Friday that had been organized by an outside group. Unfortunately it seemed in there enthusiasm for their project they had neglected to arrange several matters including accommodation for most of the guest speakers thinking this had already been done by someone else. Consequently I’ve spent a lot of my time over the last week acting as an impromptu chauffeur picking up the guests from hastily arranged lodgings and driving them about to their speaking engagements. Some of them were none to gracious about their own experience of the administrative mess. But at least l got to know London a whole lot better as a result even if it hasn’t done my old banger of a car a lot of good.
On top of this it seems that the relationship situation I have blogged about in the past involving two of my ex-colleagues from a previous job has come to ahead. One of the parishioners who helps out as a volunteer with the club they run had also cottoned on to what was going on and started asking awkward questions. Without saying too much more it has caused a bit of a bru-ha-ha locally so I am glad I am no longer directly involved. It has meant however that I have had to spend a lot of time on the phone talking to the various parties involved. In particular trying to explain to their manager and my ex-boss about what I know of the situation, and why I did not say anything, as she tries to get to the bottom of the matter has not been easy.
With all this I haven’t had as much time to prepare for my own youth and administration work as I would have liked this week and probably got a bit snappy as a result. Whatever the cause it seems I managed to upset one of the church members with something I had said about Sunday school work as I often end up having to do her preparation for her.
If that was not enough my father has also been up in London helping to promote some pilgrimage tours that he does as a side line to his main work as a lecturer and teacher. Obviously I had planned to spend some time with him whilst he was here showing him around my flat and introducing him to the various people I work with but a lot of that had to go out the window. We did manage to meet up for a meal one evening in Kensington just before he had to get the train home but it was all a bit rushed.
So all in all not a great week, hopefully this one will be better.