England Nov 2024, day 3: Conference!
Nov. 9th, 2024 10:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serindeSlept even worse, as at about 11pm my brain suddenly thought it was on New York time again and was wide awake. Sigh.
After breakfast - chilly, grey, misty day, so I had porridge with cinnamon apples and berries - I made my way over to the conference location, which was a Friends' [Quaker] Meeting house. I shan't go into details about the papers, but it was an enjoyable and educational day; I learned things, and it was good to be amongst a community of thought and practice. I also got a lot of knitting done (enough that I had to pull six rows out because I'd gone past the point where I should've started the thumb gusset).
The conference ended at 5, whereupon Beth and I ambled back through town, stopping at the not-quite-set-up-yet Christmas market that nevertheless had a hot drinks stand open. We sat in the square and people-watched with a cup of mulled wine, then met S. for dinner at a French(ish) restaurant near the hotel - we would have cheerfully returned to Forest but they had no availability, alas. Still, we made a good meal and merriment. S. went back to the room, as his knee was pretty well done in from his day's activities, and Beth and I went for a walk. We couldn't actually walk on the walls, as they close them at dusk it seems, but we walked an arc around up to Monk Bar and then back south. We dropped back in at the Trembling Madness and schmoozed our way into some seats, and had a good hour or so with our interesting beers and interesting seat-mates (three successive groups); and so to bed.
After breakfast - chilly, grey, misty day, so I had porridge with cinnamon apples and berries - I made my way over to the conference location, which was a Friends' [Quaker] Meeting house. I shan't go into details about the papers, but it was an enjoyable and educational day; I learned things, and it was good to be amongst a community of thought and practice. I also got a lot of knitting done (enough that I had to pull six rows out because I'd gone past the point where I should've started the thumb gusset).
The conference ended at 5, whereupon Beth and I ambled back through town, stopping at the not-quite-set-up-yet Christmas market that nevertheless had a hot drinks stand open. We sat in the square and people-watched with a cup of mulled wine, then met S. for dinner at a French(ish) restaurant near the hotel - we would have cheerfully returned to Forest but they had no availability, alas. Still, we made a good meal and merriment. S. went back to the room, as his knee was pretty well done in from his day's activities, and Beth and I went for a walk. We couldn't actually walk on the walls, as they close them at dusk it seems, but we walked an arc around up to Monk Bar and then back south. We dropped back in at the Trembling Madness and schmoozed our way into some seats, and had a good hour or so with our interesting beers and interesting seat-mates (three successive groups); and so to bed.
