Great fun at P-Con, thanks to all the team for organising it, and good to meet wyvernfriend   (and entourage) at last, as well as catching up with various people (was fortunate enough at dinner on Saturday to be flanked by natural20   and Leah Moore, and opposite mizkit, gaspode_girl and jemck). I was relieved to not be on any panels (or, to be more strictly accurate, to have arrived from Brussels only half way through the second one I was scheduled to be on) because my energy levels were generally low – had done a work trip to a neighbouring country last Thursday, which meant getting up at 5 am for a 9 am meeting.

Have spent yesterday and today driving to Belfast, writing a lecture and then delivering it, which was fun but pretty all-absorbing. I did manage to get hacked into a reception last night at which I bumped into various old friends from my Alliance Party days, including both the current and the former Speakers of the Assembly. Then my lecture was attended by reps from Alliance, the DUP and the Green Party; if there were others there, they did not declare themselves. The whole thing is apparently going to be available as a webcast – will post here when it is online.

And so home this evening; but fortunately I have time for a little bookshopping first.