FiftyFive ~ # 55 again

As soon as it fades into a memory back comes a photograph to remind me that I really was in Canberra, Australia. Participants and guests at the Making to Unmask symposium. Back row (L-R): Anita Fitton, Tanya Kiermaier, Andrew Melrose, Paul Hetherington, Tony Eaton and Matthew Ricketson. Front row: Jordan Williams, Jen Webb and Peter Copeman. And it is good to be reminded because it was such a good day, with some excellent papers on a wide variety of stuff which somehow all came together in a coherent whole. What is most remarkable, though is how we are separated physically by 15,000 miles and culturally (because Australia is a completely different culture - at no time did I ever feel I was in the UK) and yet thoughts and ideas have a universal currency. I had such a good time! But just to prove academics are not all Dr Dryasdust (thank you Sir Walter) - someone in the company above sent me this picture, which I rather like for obvious reasons (I am colour blind).