After the conference

Many thanks to everyone who came and made a contribution; still tidying up at this end! Plans for publication are progressing (some quite interesting ideas there), and quite a helpful series of new ideas has begun to emerge. Here is the 'team photo' taken at the wine reception by Adam of Aerial Cam, whose Land Rover and telescopic pole delighted delegates on Thursday and Friday.


Meanwhile research into other matters continues.

Yesterday morning I had a delightful (if all-too-brief) meeting with Ian Burrow about their New Jersey steel furnace, and then spent a very long perambulating lunch with Brian Dix. We visited Madeley Court (where they supplied us with coffee and sandwiches) and then around various parts of the sixteenth and seventeenth century landscape of Madeley and Caolbrookdale. We also discovered a hitherto unrecognised link between Shropshire and Northamptonshire recusants into the bargain!

All of which marvellous jollification is a long way from the "real work" of today; finalising invoices, editing reports, preparing tenders and working out my own work programme for the reduced-hours future of the next few months. At least it has stopped raining!