Gray came with us - he's just finished the website design for the Bugsplat Visitor Centre website;
"Postcards from Bugsplat."

(stay tuned for a future link! Oh wait, no, that can't happpen!)

It's beautiful. He's done a great job. Hours and hours of work. All a gift from Gray. They just sulked and nit picked until someone remembered their manners and led a round of applause. That was nice.

When I got home he said, incredulously;
"Are they always like that??"

"Yeah. They were actually quite good today."

They are very bad, as a group. There's a culture of blame and defensiveness and general bad temperedness. It really sucks. I've tried to change it and then, when I couldn't, I ended up not attending the meetings - just delivering reports. The worst of them has gone now but there a still a couple of grumpy toads left, and that's all you need to ruin a meeting.

It was just so exhausting and boring and sad, when it could have been an occasion for celebration. It's so disheartening to work with passion and zeal and to be met with such ignorant grumpiness. And poor Gray - having to deal with that!

He did okay.