Friday 5 February 2010

out to grass

Spent the past week at a residential conference with phD students from ICL at a once-fine county seat lost in scruffy fields between Wokingham and Bracknell.
group photo at Eastman Park

Fifty fiercely bright, beautiful and supremely sheltered young scientists and two of us older and rather less-sheltered representatives from The Arts inched through a long sequence of personal development exercises, energetically facilitated by failed slightly older scientists with the help of a Learning Journal and lots of flip charts.  Mountains of fried food were scooped at speed from the all you can eat buffet, while competition for the last slice of chocolate brownie almost cracked the veneer of civility.  Lots of horsing about too - and the chance to meet some very talented and thoughtful people who I hope to see again. 

Back to London and looking forward to getting down to some work in the studio - as well as getting down to writing a 3,000 word essay due by the end of next week.  
More soon...