Not too much to report from the dreaming spires - other than that it seems unlikely that there will be any paid work coming from that direction :(
Or that the conference on 'Trust' that I suggested last year and that the MOMD seemed super keen on is likely to happen either :( :(
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However, the conference itself was wonderful.
After dinner on the first evening I adjourned to the King's Arms with a blonde aussie woman 'just for a quick drink' where we ensconced ourselves in a sofa for a spot of people-watching and were eventually requested to leave at 12:45 when they wanted to close the pub - well so she says, I don't remember that bit, OR trying to unlock the gate to get back into the college :)
And on the last evening I got into an intense conversation with a young Belgian nuclear physicist-turned-philosopher about the social construction of scientific knowledge and the nature of reality - my favourite chat-up line - and shared his brolly :)
He does seem very keen to scrutinise my publications (as I am his).
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This was taken on the middle evening, when I shared a relatively restrained curry and bottle of Chilean white (a strange concept, but perfectly palatable, despite being white) with the aforesaid aussie blonde and the conference organiser (a very old friend), before returning to college and strolling round the quad in the moonlight for a while. Am planning to post a slightly 'enhanced' version of this on photographyblog, see what they make of it :roll: