Bit of a frustrating week. My bulletin was 3 weeks late going out due to server problems so the June issue had to be renamed July. Then, what I thought was a harmless reminder of an obscure issue (Places of Worship item if you must know), elicited a whole raft of responses mostly from people who knew rather more than I did. Somehow these mentions tend to bring into play the people that are good on detail, and they were quick to tell me (in the nicest possible way) that my efforts to simplify had not helped at all.

This means I have to put an item into my next bulletin to clarify my misguided attempt to simplify a complex issue, which means I will have to get into the guts of the problem and really take care because my next effort will come under careful scrutiny by those that know and understand. I, being a bear of very small brain, have a problem to solve: I wonder if I can get one of the experts to take pity on me and write a paragraph that will stand scrutiny.

All this reminds me how much we need one another: I need people around me that are good on detail. Hopefully they recognise they need me to keep the big picture in view. Perhaps a new charity is called for: a charity given to promoting the happiness and welfare of the human race by making things simpler. We'll call it KISS which in management speak means something like, 'Keep it Simple because I'm Stupid'.

Now I'm off to kiss my wife, who's maiden name was Helps and I was told by people who should have known better that she had the Gift of Administration. Now, that simply isn't true; she's even more big picture than I am especially when it comes to finance. ('Give it all to God' 'No, we must keep some of it!') We live in an increasingly glorious muddle, but I wouldn't change her for the world, though I sometimes catch her looking at me thoughtfully.

I close by saying a big thankyou to all those amazing people who actually read my bulletin and who so gently put me right when I have got out of my depth, and made something a bit too simple.