So here’s how the statistics for the weekend stack up:
First and foremost -
people to thank for a wonderful, fantastically well organised and stimulating conference
once again - Jan Jones and Roger
Sanderson
Hours spent getting lost en route to Telford 2
Minutes left to prepare/change clothing/brush hair before
Wellington Library panel 5
People attending Wellington library panel
30
Wedding anniversary celebrated 1
Old friends met up with again 100- maybe more
New friends made – 30
Talks/workshops attended 20
Quiz won - 1 (by ½ point!)
Bottles of wine consumed . . . err – lost count
RNA ex-virgins (from when I ran the first-timers group)and
writers now published after my courses/12 Point Guide – Janet Gover Rachael
Thomas Brigid Cody Iona Garrett Cathy Mansell
Discussions with past course students after one to ones
- 10
Books added to my TBR pile – 15 – with special thanks to
Janet Gover, Lara Temple (see above)
Person to thank for all the photographs – 1- John Jackson
Late nights in the kitchen with wonderful friends – 4
Cats to appease after abandoning them for 4 days – surprisingly,
none. The wonderful cat-sitter we asked
to look after them did the job so well we actually had no complaints, no sulks,
no retribution when we came home.
Except – number of mice sacrificed to cats’
need to bring presents for cat sitter – 3
Bundles of washing to dump in the machine and get dry before
we head out to Writers’ Holiday- 4
Days to go before I have to turn round and head out again
towards Fishguard and teaching on this summer’s Writers’ Holiday – 3 ….
Eeek – thank heaven I planned the course well in advance and
had only to pack my handouts etc.
