17 June 2015, 11 am
We meet with top people from FICPI-UK. We talk about how we can join forces to sell the UK profession abroad. Then we talk about how we can join forces to teach namby-pamby business skills to UK practitioners. Then we have to end the meeting because we are in the CIPA Members’ Room and the chairs are too uncomfortable to sit on for more than an hour. For those who have never ventured into the Members’ Room, let me explain. It is at the end of a long corridor, and it seems designed to make you wish you had stayed in the corridor and just carried on walking. It has two ambient temperature settings: (a) too hot and (b) too cold. Neither of these is particularly related to the ambient temperature setting outside, which makes it difficult to dress for a trip to the Members’ Room with any degree of confidence. In the Members’ Room there is a table that is never big enough, no matter how little you intend to do at it, and a selection of chairs. The chairs also fall into two categories: (a) uncomfortably low-slung, so as to prevent you ever quite reaching the too-small table, and (b) broken. Only, the broken chairs (b) are characterised in that you cannot see they are broken until there are bits of dowelling round your ears. There is also a tea and coffee tray. Recently the CIPA tea and coffee policy has been updated and we no longer provide flasks of ready-stewed beverages, just a supply of hot water and a selection of things to put in it. The best one is sugar lumps. As a chemist, I enjoy seeing how many sugar lumps you can put in a mug of hot water before super-saturation occurs. Last week I managed 28. This DIY version of corporate hospitality has met with some approval, if nothing else because you cannot complain about something you have made yourself.
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