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My items are:
Sat 11am: Workshop: World Domination - Getting Things Done
What's stopping you achieving your goals? This training session will look at some useful tools and skills for addressing blockages on the road to power, using a number of case studies. The facilitator welcomes user-submitted cases for inclusion in the training session. If you wish, please submit a short description to the front desk no later than 2 hours before the start of the session. Cases studied will be at the facilitator's discretion. (Limited to 20 places, please sign up at the front desk.) {Led by Rachel}

Sat 9pm: Writers to watch out for
Recommendations for new or little-known authors you might not have heard of. Come and find out who's the next big thing! {Duncan MacGregor, Rachel, Ian Whates}

Sun noon: Sex and drugs and rock'n'roll
Indulgence, hedonism and addiction. How do you write about excess without going over the top? {Steph Swainston, Rachel, Ian Whates, Chaz Brenchley}

Sun 2pm: Book discussion: A Companion to Wolves
Discussion of A Companion to Wolves by Sarah Monette & Elizabeth Bear, a fantasy heroic quest novel with a really interesting take on the telepathic companion animal. (Warning: book contains explicit sex scenes.) {Led by Rachel}

So excited, and there's loads of other good stuff on the programme. Tomorrow afternoon ruthcoleman and my brother Matt arrive to join in the fun. More company and extra toddler-wranglers!

Can't wait.

Lots of people! And interesting panels! And childcare (and Charles seemed to love it)!

We failed to pack enough nappies so this morning I ventured out on a bus into local suburbia, and managed to time it with a small snowstorm. My lovely new long black skirt is not ideal for splashing around in the snow, but being made of light cotton, it dries fast. Multiple times over.

Leo is here, what a lovely surprise. Also I just ran into morgangallagher, who I 'know' in the context of breastfeeding communities on LJ.

And that reminds me that I wanted to point people at her post on a brilliant advertising campaign for breastfeeding. The brief is really ambitious - normalise breastfeeding among young mums in Lancashire - and the result definitely more interesting than the usual breastfeeding campaign.