As so often at conferences, there’s hardly time to breathe between conversations, sessions, plenaries, seminars… but I am here, in Durham, having deeply stimulating conversations and hearing illuminating presentations, and looking forward to having time to follow some of them up with reading, email exchanges, and eventually writing.
Further, the cruel heat has broken, and the temperatures are hovering in the mid- to low 20°s, and there was even a tiny bit of rain yesterday night. As we used to say in the family my father and his second wife confected, ‘A Christmas miracle!’