Duvet Day

Got back from our international tour of parts of the west of England just in time to come down with a streaming cold over the weekend. Lucky it didn't happen during the tour which was a bit of whirlwind of travel and talking. I'm not sure quite what the Exeter workshop achieved in terms of concrete outcomes but it's certainly been very useful for us to travel around and see a whole lot of people, and the informal conversations have been interesting. One minor point that I was interested to note at the workshop was that some other people rubbished the concept of a truth-centred ensemble, apparently independently of our work (well they certainly didn't credit us with anything...). So it will be interesting to see how that plays out in the coming months and years, coming so hot on the heels of the IPCC's apparent endorsement of this approach.

Today we decided to try out a bit of traditional UK culture and sat in front of the telly watching the F1 race. Are there people who really do this every week? Fortunately there's the X Factor tonight to look forward to...