A shorter week with the bank holiday and all that.. Talking of holidays, I read this news article on the BBC News site about reserving sun loungers with towels.

A German tourist has won a payout of more than €900 (£850) after he was unable to secure a sun lounger due to other guests reserving them with towels.

Of course if you were to go down to the swimming pool you would find that there were plenty of empty sun loungers (with towels on them). Reminds me why I never used PC booking software when running my libraries. Students would reserve PCs with their “towels” and then never turn up. The PC was unused and unavailable for others to use. Same can be said with sun loungers.

I had a number of meetings this week about the creation of a GÉANT group building on the success of NRENS 4 Education and the work we have been doing looking at student mobility. 

The end of the week saw me attending a meeting with the OfS, one of the regular meetings Jisc has with the OfS. I spoke about some of the work we have been doing in the student experience space.

The current consultancy project I am involved in is going well.