The week overlapping November and December was one for treading the boards. The boards of directors for Endsleigh, NUS Holdings and NUS Services that is of course. Which sadist planned for all three to be consecutive days back to back has a lot to answer for. It meant of course that I couldn’t attend all of Stadia conference, which looked a lot more fun, but at least I was there for the first day as our priority campaign was presented. As you might imagine, nothing much to keep anyone awake was happening in the exciting world of insurance, save that Endsleigh were going to do better for the year than they had expected.

The NUS Holdings board meeting and AGM was an odd affair. To start off with, just like with NUS Services, no one had bothered to tell me that I was chair of the company until I actually rocked up at the meeting, and there had been no hints in the papers that came out beforehand either. But there were no other surprises at least, and the meal afterwards took longer than the meeting. On top of that there was the AGM of the company, and if you’d gone to the toilet you could easily have missed it. For those of you –probably most of you- who don’t know what NUS Holdings -or NUSH as it’s friends call it- is, just a holding company, set up for various accounting and tax reasons. The board meeting and AGM are really just formalities.

And of course the final board of the week was NUSSL. A slightly odd on in that it was the ‘December Board’, a phrase which can be interchanged with the words ‘Christmas Pissup’. Of course there was a real board meeting, but tied into that was the annual descent onto the West End. Every year the NUSSL faithful get this annual trip to theatreland. I don’t know who chose that we went to Guys & Dolls on apparently Euan McGregors last night, but I can guess. The year before it had been ‘The Producers’. I was gutted. The other thing of course was that it was December 1st, World Aids Day, so ‘We Will Rock You’ might have been a better idea?

The other thing of course that was thrown into this week was of Course the NUS Environmental Conference. Bearing in mind Will Page had just bowed out, leaving Flick ‘Elusive’ Cox as the sole convenor, it went exceptionally well. The big Smiling point for many was arriving at ULU seeing the Campaigns banner plastered across a Coke vending machine. The other hilarious point was Suzie Wylie in the session with the NUSSL E&E committee asking what NUSSL was….

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