More work on documents, translation for UK partners, interspersed with generation of a version of Mr Straus' logo suitable for Word documents. A telephone call also established that the printing of four photographs for my Open Studios as still proceeding according to plan, with delivery next week.
A short diversion was the e-mail conversation with S Jinks of the Creative Network re site design. I have submitted an application to join for the trivial annual sum of £25.
The rest of the day's work was directed to putting on paper the structure for the workshop that I will be presenting, on effective networking, at tomorrows HBN. Tomorrow morning will then be devoted to aspects of delivery.
The strike day by some teaching unions and other public sector unions was significant but remarkable for three reasons. Firstly, It was not supported by the Labour party. Second, it was less disruptive than anticipated and finally, there was none of the violence from small groups reported, that had been a feature of the major demonstration earlier in the year.
From a biologist's viewpoint, the interesting news was the disruption of two Scottish nuclear reactors at Torness Power Station, by a jelly fish swarm that clogged up the water intakes temporarily. It took a bit of a search on the internet to reveal that these were “moon” jelly fish or Aurelia aurita and that significant numbers had been washing up on Scottish beaches off East Lothian (http://scottishnatureboy.blogspot.com/2011/06/nature-wins-again-plankton-1-nuclear.html).
According to the British Marine Life Study Society (http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Moonjell.htm), the are incapable of stinging humans. A native coastal species, they regularly form large swarms in late summer, with the society recording two particularly large swarms in Shoreham harbour in 1999 and Loch Nevis in 2002.
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