The NCB Peal (Parents, Early Years and Learning) workshop on Thursday was based in the Gateshead Hilton with the most spectacular views over the river Tyne. After a long train journey I was please to get there and gaze from the balcony at the vista.
Newcastle is a very vibrant city with a great mix of old and modern buildings. You really feel that this is a city on the rise.
Looking over the river I was struck by the number of bridges, all of different styles and shapes, that connect the two sides of the city. These structures are the networks that link people and they are always busy - day and night. This seems to me to be a visual metaphor for the social and community networks we create both in the real world and in cyberspace.
Sometimes our bridges in these networks are our relationships - other times I think that certain people can act as bridges. It is an essential role but one that is often not recognised or valued. Certain people make things happen for others - they keep the flow of information and trust moving. We need more bridges.
What is nice about the Tyne bridges is that they are lit up at night - they shimmer and shine and reflect on the slow moving water of the river.
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