Preparations

One thing leads to another. We had a Zoom chat with an English friend from Welwyn Garden City at the weekend. Naomi sent me a follow-up message afterwards and I asked her if she'd like to come to my next Environment Action meeting. Later, she told me her brother might be willing to give our group a presentation on glacier monitoring. That would be interesting! 

That question got me wondering whether the group would want me to organise another series of presentations for the next season, so I sent them a query about it and got twelve positive responses straight away, along with suggestions for other activities besides: river clean-ups, planting community gardens and the like. I mentioned that to Emma, who helped me start the expert speaker series last autumn, and she thought I should find out how to start planting a "tiny forest."

The Club's Board members are talking about Succession Planning. I'm useless at this, because I don't have the requisite persuasion skills; six people have so far turned down my request to take over from me as the next editor of the newsletter.

The preparation of the last issue of the Club's newsletter had me writing about a retired Lieutenant-General of the Royal Canadian Air Force, who has been persuaded to speak to CFUW-Ottawa members as a replacement for two top people from Ottawa's Public Health Service who are too bogged down with COVID-19 mitigation to come to our meeting.

I may be able to apply for a vaccination soon. This ought not to be at the same time as the back-tooth extraction I'll have to endure, having broken off the crown and cracked the roots of one of my molars. Not a pleasant prospect. My dentist seems reluctant to take that responsibility and is referring me to a specialist, who'll most likely operate on me at the end of April, not on my birthday, I hope.