Catching up

I was away training last week. The course went very well indeed, but I'm always a bit drained afterwards. Friday night was then spent at a charity ball/auction to raise funds for my childrens' school - a terrific night out at The Lowry in Manchester, but a very late finish.

Saturday was when Friday night caught up with me. Sunday was a fund-raising sponsored walk (the childrens' school again - who schedules this stuff?) with me trying to catch up with the kids. And this week has been mainly catching up with admin so far.

I have a meeting coming up next week at BSI for TDW/4/6, the committee dealing with education. We have been slowly working towards a fully accredited training scheme in Geometrical Product Specification for some time now. The IED are going to be the accreditation body, but we still have a long way to go in sorting out the details of how the process will work, how it will be funded etc. I need to catch up with some outstanding actions on structuring the curriculum.

In TDW/4/6 we have learnt a great deal from the National Physics Laboratory (NPL) who have had a system of accredited training for metrologists in place for sometime now. When I catch up with everything else, I'm planning to become a deliverer of the NPL training. It is a near-perfect fit with the geometrical tolerancing training I'm providing now.

Something more technical next time ...