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My Week - When times are tough, we need to dance

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MONDAY: Returning from Los Angeles, I break all my personal rules for avoiding the worst effects of jet lag. I eat, drink and watch not one but two films, neither of them particularly good. Result? Didn't sleep.

So now I read much more than I would wish in the early hours of the morning and am blasted by the alarm clock out of a dense sleep at 8.30am to arrive at an emergency meeting of the Bath Festivals Board at 9am, staggering and barely able to think. Spend the rest of the day in a stupor trying to catch up.

TUESDAY: To Cardiff where I'm employed part-time by the university. The research group of which I'm a part has undertaken half a dozen case studies about the local police response to homicide.

We're interested in the degree to which such events make people anxious and what the police can do to reassure them. I'm helping to draft a funding application to re-analyse all the data collectively, not least because the issue is complex.

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