In my work as management consultant and coach (Finding True North) I've been asked to do some interim management work for Robin Hood Ministries - to head up their staff team part time for six months to help steer the charity through its current growth stage.

The charity is based in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, and helps alleviate poverty in various countries by supporting projects that help communities to be more self-reliant.

They also encourage businesses to support them through the initiative Business Against Poverty.

At the weekend I found myself talking to someone out walking her dog. She was recovering from Swine Flu and lives not far from us.

She'd been diagnosed as having Swine Flu because of aching greater than that she'd experienced with 'flu before, and having started a course of Tamiflu recovered well and quickly.