Foreign Perspectives

As usual, the final day was something of a winding down for the most part.

In the morning, everything got dumped into the case and, surprisingly, it closed without too much poking and prodding. Typically for the final day, the breakfast reached a new low but then, on the whole, that’s normal for Nottingham where the quality of the meals seems to drop as the week goes on.

We were down quite early as our group was first on (at 9.30). As usual, the quality of the presentations was high given that they were all quite rushed and some of the experiments raised a few points that one wouldn’t have expected from such relatively rushed experiments. Quite a number looked into things that sounded like they’d be rather interesting to follow up in some more detail. Sadly, that’s not going to happen as this is the final strand of the plants courses and there’s no “proper” level 3 course to follow up on points that were raised.

With a short break, all the presentations were completed before noon so it was a leisurely walk up the hill to Cripps for lunch for me. Most people managed to have lunch before departing this year and it was well after 1pm before I bade farewell to Cripps ’til next year. The taxi takes around 30 minutes to get to the airport so I’d loads of time there to look for some prezzies for the little guys although the selection wasn’t great. The adrenalin from the course tends to run out around teatime but, for a change, I wasn’t too bad on Saturday.