Dark nights, Manchester ... all we need now is a full moon
That's the thing in the sky, not the thing you see late on a Saturday night in the environs of Market Street etc.
These things interest me, as many "trailed" radio programmes do, but, alas, I cannot cope with lectures or radio programmes or Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals (hm
). Somehow got a couple of degrees from Cambridge without going to a single lecture, but you cannot believe how much I missed NOT being able to go to one. Suspect many students would have the opposite view - esp the scientists! - but until they can somehow subtitle radio/lectures these things are a no-no for me and I do regret it big time. Nothing beats being in the company of a knowledgable enthusiast, even a train-spotting one.
OTOH, I do hope that there is a good turn-out and that the publicity extends beyond this forum in order to assist this. Takes a lot of prep and not a little courage to deliver a talk, and I have no doubt at all that this series of lectures will hit the spot. If, perchance, you were thinking of having a quick (single) jar in a local hostelry afterwards then I might try to join the apres-ski. Would have to be a quiet-ish hostelry, though, unless you want me to resort to my Agincourt sign language, this being the only type I know
