Reflections of a blipper

A strange sort of day today. We learned more about the process by which people will be selected for compulsory redundancy, and what we have to do to avoid the cut. Distill a career of acquired experience, knowledge and skills into a thousand words (250 words on each of 4 criteria), no interview, and let a quality assurance panel decide who is still useful to the organisation. A process we are assured will be fair and objective.

Matt and I went for a walk at lunchtime - distraction therapy. The birds were good, bramblings at the other end of the Natland Mill Beck Lane to where this was taken, a sparrowhawk, and on the River Kent 4 little grebes, a male goldeneye and male and female goosanders.

The little grebe was a new species for 2011, that takes the total to 93.

A brief entry tonight.