Making time for work...!

A recurring theme in messages I’ve been receiving is that it looks like I’m not doing any work! In order to keep any RBS shareholders, employees, or (charge paying!) customers who might be reading from being too concerned, I’d like to reassure you that I have been to the office (when I’ve not been celebrating New Year...) and I am actually doing some work. You’ll also be relieved to know that the office was ritually cleansed of bad spirits yesterday when a lion chased them all away… (I love the guy on the left of the photo below - who's carrying on working as if nothing unusual is happening at all!)





I’ve also been asked if I’m missing anything about my previous role or feeling powerless as I no longer work for Scotland’s most powerful person (according to The Scotsman). I do miss having an office, my very comfortable leather chair, the fabulous views over the Pentlands and the Gogarburn campus (of course, I never had time to enjoy the view – it was just nice to know it was there!). And no, I'm not feeling powerless at all - I'm the man who chose to leave Scotland's most powerful man to go and do bigger and better things!

And finally some of you seem to like the HK trivia... So here's another piece of useless (though possibly pub quiz winning - DSS members take note!) trivia. Hong Kong (or more accurately Heung Gong - and even more accurately 香港) means "fragrant harbour". Well I guess the harbour was maybe fragrant before the populaiton grew to 7m...