I finally come up with what I thought was a funny and original tweet only to find you beat me to it by 15 bloody minutes! 👏 pic.twitter.com/A7i02ex6Gi
— Jeanna Louise Skinner (@JeannaLStars) April 26, 2018
Postcards
Dream Team
Sign in my hotel
For want of a letter, the meaning was lost…
Berlaymont
Watching the Brexit press conference yesterday reminded me that I was in that very room for a couple of Midday Briefings, complete with headphones and simultaneous translations, in September 2005 when I was on the PG Dip in Public Communications at Leeds Trinity University. Here’s the proof (yes, the seat colours and my taste in ties haven’t changed).
11,000-day anniversary
I’ve known my friend Birgit for 11,000 days today. That’s 30 years and about six weeks. I really ought to have bought her something – lilies or pearls for a 30th anniversary. Maybe if we meet over the summer… will have to get a job first though…
Chartership announced
CIPR finally admits to the world that I’m a Chartered PR Practitioner. A month after the event. Maybe they’re embarrassed?
Crikey. Fellowship!
Somewhat delighted – and still a bit surprised, though I have been keeping the news secret for a few weeks – to have been made a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations.
Full story on the CIPR web site.
Many thanks to Paul Amourdedieu, Stefan Casey and Rebecca Benn for the nomination; and to the many people Paul tells me he rounded up to get testimony from; and to the people who have emailed, texted or tweeted congratulations today.
I promise to only use my new-found powers to annoy.
I’d like to thank…
Close, but no banana.
Eight spots available on the Open List, I came… ninth. A ridiculously close ninth too, thanks to the voting system used.
Oh well, there’s always 2016. You can see the results on the CIPR web site, as well as the full election report.
Leeds’s third University
Congratulations to my Alma Mater on becoming Leeds Trinity University (formerly Leeds Trinity University College, formerly Leeds Trinity and All Saints, formerly Trinity and All Saints University College, formerly Trinity and All Saints A College of the University of Leeds, formerly Trinity and All Saints College, originally Trinity and All Saints’ Colleges).
That’s about one name change every seven years!
It’s odd for me, having an undergraduate degree, postgraduate degree and a postgraduate diploma from all three institutions in Leeds – but only one is from an actual University, the other two being from a Polytechnic and a University College…