Three meetings today!

Oh dear! Three meetings today - each generating different emotions. First I went, with Jill Hood, to Trentham to give a presentation to ta meeting of Stafford Tourism Bureau about the Food and Drink Festival. Did I rant on a few days ago about the blinkered attitude of Stafford? Well sure enough there was ample evidence of it again at this meeting. Jill and I drove back to Stone seething. We are coming to the view that if Stone is ever going to be promoted properly we will have to do it ourselves.

My second meeting was a training session down at Stafford Borough for the Environment and Health Scrutiny Committees to which I've been appointed. Very interesting indeed. I'm sure I'm going to find the work of these committees very fulfilling.

And finally back to Stone for the first meeting of our new Tourism and Town Promotion sub committee. Most of the items on the agenda were there at my request so at times it appeared as if it were a Richard Stevens sub committee! However we covered alot of ground and I think we can honestly state that we've 'hit the ground running'. There were quite a few housekeeping issues but the major decision was to support and encourage a Stone Music Festival. Steve Brookes will be taking this under his wing and I'm sure this is the beginning of something very exciting.