Red Eye

Back to work after a day off.  It should have been an easier day than it was – as everyone has been off, so there wasn’t the usual mountain of emails to wade through.  However my IT decided to play up big time this morning, when I had an important 8.30am meeting to call into.  I was extremely stressed and managed to get into the meeting at 8.31am just as it kicked off, but I was totally unprepared as I hadn’t been able to access any of the papers.  Once that meeting was done it was straight onto another meeting.  The papers had only come in over the weekend, and I hadn’t even been able to open them.  Two tricky issues on the agenda, which I knew I would be called to comment on – somehow I fluffed my way through.  By the time that meeting was over I was feeling very stressed, and so it continued for the rest of the day as I seemed to be chasing my tail and getting nowhere, with too many people demanding too many things.  I worked late to get on top of things and then had a lovely evening walk to de-stress.
I think a pair of oystercatchers have a nest nearby.  They go really crazy when you walk past.  Here is one of them keeping its beady red eye on me.