It was back to school for me on Tuesday when I was welcomed to Bishop Perowne College by the headteacher, Julie Farr, and two of the school governors.
The school is oversubscribed each year and I can understand why.
It specialises in the performing arts but also prides itself on having high standards academically and, just as importantly, giving pupils every opportunity to develop their full personal potential.
Wednesday saw me down at Pitchcroft to start the third stage of the Tour of Britain cycle race.
We have done well to get Worcester designated as a staging post. At least this time the news from the racecourse was not about flooding but something more positive!
There were teams from across the globe and they all looked remarkably fit and healthy.
Personally, I’m more of a Sunday afternoon cyclist so I was glad I just had to wave the flag and send them on their way towards the Malverns.
On Thursday it was a great pleasure to visit St Richard’s Hospice for its AGM and meet new chairman John Bawden who has recently taken over from long-serving Jeannie Young.
I doubt if there’s a person in Worcester who has not contributed to their funds either directly or by sponsoring a friend or relative to raise money.
What I had not quite appreciated was how many volunteers help with either fund-raising or working in the hospice itself.
There are currently 730 of them who have given an amazing 23,000 hours of their time in the last year.
The value of that is almost beyond measure and I thank them all. It was perhaps a natural follow-on that on the Saturday we were at the Nunnery Wood athletics track for the start of the Worcester Relay for Life in aid of Cancer Research UK.
It was good that some survivors were able to participate in this 24- hour relay walk round the track. Carol and I did what admittedly was a token two laps.
Thanks to the many sponsors, the teams taking part and also Paul Moult, from Worcester Bosch, who co-ordinated the whole event and Barbara Ludwig who is chairman of the Worcester branch of the charity.
My week was completed by attending a national bell-ringers conference at the cathedral.
Many of you will know I am promoting Worcester as a city of bells and so I was delighted to open the day’s proceedings with 100 or so people coming from all over the UK.
Interestingly I learned that Perth in Australia is also aiming to have that same title.
Naturally, I’d like to give our Aussie friends a run for their money and beat them to it!