As a semi-retired portfolio worker, my weeks are very varied, but this week was an exceptionally full and interesting one.<\/p>\n
On Monday, I travelled from London up to Manchester. I spent the afternoon with my step-mother and the evening with my brother, his partner and their daughter who is almost eight now.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, I went down from Manchester to Swanwick in Derbyshire to address a conference of the Church + Media Network on the subject of Internet regulation [my blog posting here<\/a>].<\/p>\n On Wednesday, I was at Ofcom all day to attend a meeting of the Communications Consumer Panel<\/a> on which I have now served for more than seven years.<\/p>\n On Thursday, I looked after my granddaughter for the whole day [my blog posting here<\/a>]. Then I went off to Bristol where I had dinner with friends who recently moved from the London area to Bristol and will have their first child in a couple of months.<\/p>\n Today, still in Bristol, I addressed the biennial conference of the trade union Connect <\/a>which represents professional and managerial staff in the telecommunications industry.\u00a0 I gave a speech outlining future trends in the communications sector.<\/p>\n