After a busy morning dealing with constituency matters, I headed to the National Sailing Academy on Portland to attend a farewell lunch for retiring CEO Peter Allam. A former distinguished sailor, Peter was selected as CEO 10 years ago. It was the best decision the Board could have made, as Peter has proved to be invaluable, running the Academy in his own understated and professional way. He was exactly the person for the job and we will feel his loss enormously. Arriving at 1300, I bumped straight into Peter, his wife, Jo, and their daughter. The reception was held in the main hall upstairs and it was packed, with a huge range of people who Peter had worked with over the years. After he'd been presented with some gifts, Peter made a poignant speech, thanking all those who had helped him. There were many to thank. I shall miss Peter a lot. He is one of the nicest men I have met and I wish him and his family a happy and peaceful retirement. The wholly unnecessary row over gender continued, with Nicola Sturgeon having to eat her hat as a trans woman, who had raped two women before she changed gender, was moved to a men's prison, where that person should rightly be. Can't help but think sometimes that the world has gone mad! News that the police had arrested a 61-year-old man on suspicion of assaulting Conservative MP Matt Hancock brought back memories of our two murdered colleagues. Politicians are much more vulnerable today as hatred and intolerance are consistently whipped up on social media. And, having been in Ukraine on the last occasion Putin fired nearly 100 missiles into the country, my thoughts were of the people there who were subjected to another wave of missiles a day after Germany and the US pledged tanks to aid Kyiv's fight against the invasion.