This afternoon, I go to the Management Suite on the third floor at Highcross with a bouquet of flowers and a card for Suzie Wood, Commercialisation Coordinator there, who was our contact and liaison for the Council of Faiths exhibition in National Inter Faith Week.
I intend to drop these items off at reception for Suzie, without wishing to hand them over to her personally. I don't want to cause a fuss or make it feel like we're trying to ingratiate ourselves with her. But when I get there, she's actually standing chatting to the woman behind the desk. So I give them to her, express our thanks and say (as it does in the card) that we're grateful to her for helping to make the week pass so painlessly and easily for us and that we're keeping our fingers crossed for coming back next year. "So it's not so much a gift as a bribe!" she says. "Isn't everything, in the end?" I reply. Suzie says, in a perfectly happy and matter-of-fact way, that she's sure Highcross can fit us in next year and that we should let her know the dates for National Inter Faith Week 2011 as soon as we can.
That's 50 weeks to go - and counting!
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