Spent some time with H today covering what we wanted to say and how we wanted to say it. Started off with a complicated scheme of mine to fit things into a diagram which covered what was different between ourselves at our old jobs and then either different or similar here. Or what was similar between ourselves at our old jobs and what was either different or similar here.

But it got bogged down in being overly complex and not all that helpful really.

Particularly as we chatted and both came to the conclusion that there was no way we could be brutally honest about everything we'd observed or it would all just come out too negatively. On the other hand we didn't want to be bland and overly effusive in an unhelpful way.

It came to me as we talked that we might use Google Earth imagery to kind of 'zoom' in from the national level showing all three places in one screen, down to the local level down to the city level, campus level, building level, and then onwards and inwards to the 'team' level, office and end up at computer level. (Though we might diverge at office level to include the staff room which we both like in comparison to).

The advantage of that scheme was that it would be graphically friendly, give us a 'peg' to hang our double act on, and if we went 'inwards' as an introduction and then worked our way 'out' to the broader issues of place and location and the welcome we'd recieved, it meant we'd finish on a high note and leave negatives such as computer intransigence and office space well behind.

H seemed to like the scheme and is happy to do graphics, while I find my "on my last ship it was different quote" which seems apposite and sort out a video of the local beach which we thought we might finish on. Particular as H came here specifically to be on the coast.