Have been far too guilty of system 2 judgement and decision making recently (slow, deliberative and rational!). So much so that after a relaxing and reflective week in the US I feel I have fallen asleep at the wheel a little.

An interesting week back in the office has culminated in my first ever Friday off to catch up on studies for the IE-Brown Executive MBA, so am all read up on Corporate Strategy, Integrating the Marketing Mix, and Costing for Decision Making, Leadership final exam completed, Psychology exam sketched out (you know exactly what that means!) Still feeling like very little achieved and hellish amount still rolling inexorably down the hill at me.

To balance this tomorrow is the Summers first trip to Wildwood; one of the few charities I support, not out of a love for squirrels and badgers but because it’s a great day out for the kids and I’m a sucker for anywhere that makes decent sausage chips and beans!

Kent has many great things going for it:  the weather, the beautiful beaches,

 the countryside, the country pubs, the food, the markets, the North Downs, the cost of housing, the UK’s only high speed train and the rash of top quality breweries (well done New York for your micro-breweries but Kent has being doing it for centuries and I would swap NYC for a leafy country pub any day of the week)!

The truly great thing for me though is the array of parks, open spaces, and wildlife. Numerous zoos, wildlife sanctuaries, even a safari park (I lie not; the main picture is taken in Kent). So tomorrow’s trip to Wildwood will see me and the kids stuffed out with sausages and ice creams while we stare quizzically at hedgehogs, squirrels, badgers and other odd little fur balls. I don’t really get it but it’s somehow very British. And the sausages. The chips, beans………

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