Our young people are excited about meeting her and are delighted that she's really friendly and genuinely interested in their lives. Later, as she prepares to leave, all the young men in the building suddenly appear to wave her off.
"Rosamund is so lovely," breathes one of our lads. "Beautiful," smiles another, all starry-eyed. I bring them back to earth by reminding them that we've a group to run in an hour's time, but their dreamy looks stay for the rest of the day.
TUESDAY - Attend a fabulous Hear by Right course, which is run by The National Youth Agency. It gives organisations an opportunity to consider how effectively young people participate in their service, and offers a toolkit to measure involvement and identify areas for development. For a children's rights service such as ours it hits the spot, and we come away refreshed and full of new ideas for genuine service-user involvement.
WEDNESDAY - It's "Happy Club" night, for our younger children. They meet on a fortnightly basis as a group and do lots of fun activities.
Tonight there's beans on toast for tea, followed by fruit and yoghurt - we try to keep it healthy.
In the midst of the feeding frenzy, I suddenly hear a little voice pipe up the old rhyme "Beans, beans/Good for your heart/The more you eat, the more you... " at which point a worker intervenes and there's a sudden eruption of giggling. Within seconds there's a chorus going on and I have to leave the kitchen as I'm trying not to let them see me laughing. Thankfully, the fruit takes their minds off it within minutes - they don't know a cheeky rhyme about pineapple - phew!
THURSDAY - We hold our team awayday in the New Forest, welcoming new members to our service and doing some business planning. It's a really productive morning, and we wander outside before lunch to enjoy the sun.
Our venue has chickens and hens wandering around the grounds. "This must be dinner," laughs one of our staff team to my dismay. As a veggie, I think I'll stick to the beans on toast, regardless of the consequences.
Jeanie Lynch is children's services manager at Barnardo's in Southampton and an independent trainer and writer.
