What a busy week of networking I’ve had, and network railing too:

Monday: 06:30 train to London (aka the ‘oh my’ it’s early train); tube to Charing Cross to spend some time in the office; before taking a bus to Tavistock Square to talk to Universities UK about the project; then off to Goldsmiths (tube and overground train) to talk about the roundtable event; and finally home to Cheltenham on the ‘choo choo’.

Tuesday: the ‘oh my’ train again; tube to Euston Square; walk around in circles till I found THE Magic Circle, where I attended the Future of the Prospectus conference. Met some interesting people, heard some good talks, then missed the direct train home to Cheltenham and had to change in Swindon home of the magic roundabout!

Wednesday: usual ‘oh my choo choo’, tube to Oxford Circus, Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education conference which included networking with QAA, University of Exeter Business School, London College of Business and Management, and hearing Morag Shiach of Queen Mary talk about some great things they do. Then tube to Charing Cross, meeting near the office to plan for Enhancing the Student Experience conference in November, and finally my usual train home.

Thursday: groan, another train to London, another tube to Oxford Circus; excellent Meeting Student Expectations conference; excellent networking (bestcourse4me, HEFCE, Ipsos MORI, among others). Getting very blasé about my travelling now. I actually gave someone else directions for how to get to where they wanted to go in London (when did I stop being a tourist?). Fell asleep on the train home to Cheltenham, which luckily terminates there.

Friday: the only link to travelling today is that I made some #followfriday suggestions on Twitter, but I signed up for a conference in July, networking withdrawal perhaps?