Meetings and traditional sausages

Yesterday's The Inspired Group meeting had generated a new idea that continued fermenting in the hours before sleep. Almost the first task of the day was to encapsulate the idea and its ramifications into a document that was then sent off for consideration, in confidence, by both Mr Wishart and a further contact. The internet conspired against me by failing temporarily, thus delaying my departure for the weekly Huntingdonshire Business Network meeting.

Fortunately, my journey to Huntingdon was without incident, though I noted with some concern, the sudden cessation of flow and the rapidly growing queues on the other carriageway once past the Godmanchester exit. Arriving at the HBN venue of the Indoor Bowls Club, I was delighted to see Ms J Buck, a ray of light amongst business people through her radiant smile, dynamism and dedication to her successful Aloe Vera business. Just passing by, I was fortunate to see her before she departed for another meeting.

Today's topics ranged from promoting tourism in Huntingdonshire, over the best e-book reader, including feedback and impressions of yesterday's TIG meeting. I hit a technical hitch trying to convert a document with a colour image into mobi e-book format for Ms Ekblom; a task I tackled in the evening, finding that failure appeared to be the paucity of text in the initial attempt as subsequent trials with additional text functioned perfectly.

After HBN, on to Over for Tutorcloud. Mrs Farndale had brought along the business cards printed according to my design, which had turned out well. Joined by Mr Beal and Ms Heeneman, we progressed through the procedural mechanisms underlying the continued development of the matchmaking site.

I spent some time afterwards in conversation with Mr Beal and minor troubleshooting of the Cambridge Open Studios blog functionality.

On the way home, I stopped off at the Rose farm in Swavesey to purchase sausages from the last batch of pork to be prepared before Autumn, coming away with Lincolnshire and Old English pork sausages to freeze at home.

Volcanic activity appears to the the rage as there were news pictures of increasing lava activity in Hawaii. A detailed article in the Berliner Morgenpost http://www.morgenpost.de/web-wissen/article1668413/Lueckenlose-Indizienkette-weist-zu-Bio-Sprossen.html on the E. coli outbreak reports that the accumulated evidence from epidemiological studies poitns to the bean sprout producer in Bienenbuettel, Lowe Saxony. Infection clusters and photographic evidence of meals in pictures taken by restaurant visitors all contributed to the evidence.

Our region of East Anglia has been officially declared to be in a drought, though there was no threat to water supplies as yet.