DG's Visits Week 17

The Friday morning saw an early start to travel south to York for the District 1020 Conference.All three Scottish Governors work closely together and it has been a great pleasure to support each other's Conferences. The week-end began with a superb evening's music from a group called Scocha which I had not heard previously. I wish I had even a tenth of the performers' energy, as they went through a wonderful repertoire of both very upbeat songs which stirred the spirits and certainly had everyone's feet tapping, and sad songs which tugged the emotional heart strings. The Conference programme was a similar mixture of very upbeat activities going on round the world, and those where you could not be anything other than sad and hope that better times and help would come to those whose lives are so impoverished. The Saturday evening dance was held in the York Railway museum where happy revellers sat in close proximity to the austere magnificence of the carriages of various Royal Trains over the years. Sunday started with a service which was multi-denominational in everything but name, went on to the pearls of wisdom of Sir Tom Farmer and ended with the droll, laid back humour of Robbie Glenn, retired prison governor. The week-end had an excellent blend, well chaired by Governor Alastair Davies, ably supported by his wife Kirsteen. Where would Governors be without their partners..