History Maker

Lee has been working very hard lately... He organised his work's national 7 day conference at the very new Liverpool Arena this month. There were about 1100 delegates from all over the country & some international visitors too. Lee made history as he is the first non Royal Mail person to organise the conference in the union's entire history which caused quite a stir! He did a fabulous job (& I'm not the only one to say that!). He organised speakers & entertainment, lifts to & from airports & train stations, catering, liaising with the arena staff... He also spent one day looking after Ricky Tomlinson who spoke at the conference. Lee said he was a nice bloke. (No he didn't get a photo or an autograph!). Lee worked very hard- most days he worked from 7am until 1am the following morning only to start again at 7am! He was shattered after the week was out & the boys said he had been away from home for at least a year! We all missed him lots!

As the conference was held in Liverpool this year (it's usually in Bournemouth) I was able to go to some of the evening events. It was quite exciting to see Lee at work. He is as cool as a cucumber no matter what situation he is faced with. Anyway, the random picture above is of the drinks we bought at The Christians gig. This piddly amount of orange juice cost me £1.50! Even the bar staff gasped when they looked at the price list for the tiny bottle! Needless to say we only bought one drink each!
We really enjoyed the Tuesday night social in the Casa bar in town. The jazz band was fantastic, the comedian very funny (although he swore too much) & The Liverpool Samba School drummers were amazing! We saw them on Space Pirates on cBeebies with the boys a while back but they are better in real life.... and louder too!
There was a poet at the event too who will write a poem about you there & then with information your friends or colleagues give him. He called himself The People's Poet & as you can see from the photo he was a bit of a character! When he had finished writing the poem he would recite it. This is the poem he wrote for Lee;

Lee

The Mighty Atom

Beware- handle with care

Health & Safety in an anorak

On the ball

Never slack

You can't knock

A rock

As a bridge between clerical & engineer

Have no fear

Secretary of the conference

With confidence & ear piece

Wonders never cease

With Lee