Being imaginative sometimes demands an imaginative space.

Our Derby offices have a room with totally white walls that can be drawn on with whiteboard markers. Even the cupboard doors can be used to write that important thought on. If that’s not creative enough the cupboards hold playdough and klennex : perhaps I should have brought Joanne and Richard with me.

So, in this funky and organic environment we sat and tried to make sense of the project, the deliverables and the quality management process. All day long.

By the time we left we were all a little stir crazy at sitting staring at white walls all day long and decided to go for a walk in the older part of the city. The Brunswick is small pub with a microbrewery producing a great range of local beers or which Triple Hop seemed the best. I really like this area of Derby. The terraced houses, the wonderful black and white pictures of the old steam railway shed in the pub all seemed to make it a comfortable place to sit and have a drink, and that’s what we did before turned back to the hotel for a Mexican meal and final few drinks in the hotel bar.