5 October 2016
I am at home, recovering from an operation. I was discharged early from hospital, following a petition which the nurses presented to the consultant. He was happy to go with their recommendation, because he was fed up of my patent attorney questions, for instance about the pH of my intravenous drip and the level of his professional indemnity insurance. My family had tried to put together a counter-petition of their own, but they were not quick enough to avert the disaster. So now I am taking it easy and avoiding too much CIPA work. It is bad luck to do CIPA work while you’re convalescing, just like it is bad luck to go anywhere near a supermarket or a vacuum cleaner or a casserole pot within three months of surgery. You can’t afford to take chances. For someone as naturally hyperactive as me, it is frustrating not being part of things. So every now and then, I log on and check my CIPA emails, and some of them I am quite pleased not to be part of, and others I really, really want to voice my opinion about so I have to go pour a gin and tonic to distract myself. Mr Davies and the other officers are doing just fine without me, and indeed are glad of the break. My opinions were rarely that useful anyway. What I have to continue with, however, is the diversity stuff. There are some brilliant people making some brilliant progress with specific projects, but they still need a brilliant leader to blame if things go wrong. I think I can just about cope with being a brilliant but culpable leader so long as I keep to the gin and don’t get tempted to reply to emails. Today is a particularly exciting day on the diversity front. Mr Davies has started building us a Careers in Ideas website. I picture him in a hard hat and overalls, with his welding kit and a trowel, but apparently it is not that type of building, it is the arty-farty designer type with a bit of IT on the side. On the website there will be lots of ideas about careers in ideas and lots of careers ideas for those who need them. On the home page we are using the imagery that is not tech-y enough or masculine enough, with the too big too small writing. Elsewhere there will be the leaflet we have had written and the poster we have had designed, and school children and their advisers will be able to download all this super information and see for themselves what a brilliant idea it is to have a career in ideas. I hope you get the gist. Mr Davies says: I don’t like the font. It is not too big or too small, apparently; it is just too expensive. The arty-farty-with-IT-on-the-side professional designers picked it specially for us, being as they are pretty good at making careers out of ideas themselves. I have an idea too. I suggest we ditch the expensive font and go for a bog-standard one. Something a bit more tech-y, a bit more masculine: anything, in fact, except Comic Sans.
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