I have made the point before that the House is much more than the chamber. The fact the House may not be sitting does not mean members are not getting on with work. Letters continue to flow in and so do e-mails, the latter nowadays more so than the former. Members continue to table questions.
Although the House is fairly quiet relative to the Commons, which is sitting, I have nonetheless bumped into various colleagues, both last week and this. My office continues to maintain its claim to be the busiest. When the House is sitting, there is normally someone in from between 8.00 and 9.00 a.m. until 10.00 p.m. or later. Even in recesses, we stand out. Last week, when I arrived there was already a colleague at work in the office; when I left shortly (well not so shortly) after 10.00 p.m. another colleague was busy at work. It’s a bit quieter this week, but there’s still work to be done…
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Tory boy: The roll call of honour is Baroness O’Cathain followed by Lord Lucas.
Thr office was not so well populated this week, but the Palace was – I kept bumping into peers from early morning onwards.
Just in case it is not too late to “work” our way out of the Extinctioning, that is evidently no longer merely insidiously engulfing both our Human Race and thereby most if not completely All other life on Earth, Lord Norton
what might be the fair proportion of kinds of work that we should be looking (out) for ?
I mean how much creative work, how much constructive work, how much routine-chores work ?
and so on and so forth
including perhaps
how much self-improvement work, or “homework” ?
Is “Work”,
or can It be,
thus “usefully” categorised ?