Guest Writer – Peter G

FAMILY FUN DAYYYY! We are all currently still feeding off the adrenaline that was our Family Fun Day, which took place here at Island House Training Centre on Friday. It was a fantastic day which was enjoyed by over 550 visitors from the local community. Our visitors enjoyed the 4 bouncy castles, Aunt Sandra’s chocolate workshop, zumba dancing, a BBQ from Moe’s Grill, Mickey, Minnie, Buzz Lightyear and a fantastic array of stalls painting nails and faces....You name it, we had it!

It was a great day which raised an amazing total of £1649.28 for the Northern Ireland Cancer Fund for Children! A massive thanks must go to each everyone who contributed to the event, especially Debbie and the other members of the Legal-Island team and McGee's Butcher's who donated the meat for our BBQ.

Please see below for a selection of pictures from the day.

This week's movements are as follows:

Our CEO, Barry Phillips, has a busy week before taking a few days' leave soon. He has meetings all day today. Tomorrow he has a meeting with ASDON in Lisburn and with Trainingsolutionz on Wednesday. On Thursday he's back in the office and out again Friday helping with the great Antrim river clean up.

Scott is a red-looking 51 years of age tomorrow and will be taking the day off, in line with our policy of every employee getting an extra day off on their birthday. That means his pink haired daughter, Kirsty, will have the shortest work placement in history – just one day – before she gets a break.

Kirsty is a rebellious child and dyed her hair pink specifically so she would clash with her old man’s napper, a frightening shade of crimson after spending the Legal-Island family fun day directing traffic. A lovely hot and sunny day proved a blessing to everyone but Scott, who really should have known better than to go outside in temperatures of more than 12°C without a hat and sunscreen. He is Scottish after all and is old enough to remember the damage done by the strange big yellow thing in the sky from 1976. Just as well he spent a while dressed up as Mickey Mouse on Friday or he would have looked even more like a proboscis monkey.

Scott is back in the office with daughter in tow on Wednesday and Thursday, thereby tripling Kirsty’s work placement in just two days. On Friday Scott will be attending the LRA conference on international perspective in employee relations at the Stormont Hotel in Belfast. Kirsty might just need another day off. And they say kids are pampered nowadays...

This week we are all very busy as places are starting to fill up at our NI and ROI Annual Reviews, as well as all of our other season 2 events. We are also heading down to a river clean at the Six Mile Water with local companies Text Help, Robinson Cleaning Services and The Six Mile Water Trust. We are praying the thunder and lightning leaves us to get on with it!