The EHB Conference in Keele, England
First up- the conference dinner.
At the first table, Christian, Tom, Sabine, Tony, and Alan Sweigert. The ear on the right may belong to Thorsten.
At Table 2 are XX, Don, Andy's wife (I can't recall her name at the moment), Andy, Betsy, XX and Richard Wade.
The Montreal Table: Susana (formerly of Oxford), Francois, Matthieu, Gilles, Stephane (now in France), and Francois (now at Johns Hopkins).
At Table 4 are our host, Pierre and his wife, Ram, Amir, Simon, Uli (just the very top of his head), XX, and XX
At Table 5 are XX, Roy (showing his past life as a circus performer), Jan-Erik showing his photographic skills to Raquel and Christina, and Roberto.
After the daily excitment of talks, many of us removed to the local pub, the Sneyd Arms, to see how many beers we could down before 11pm.
Here's a typical view of our table: Lynchpin, John, Lisa, me, Philip, Nye, Francois and Stephane (the only one with sufficient taste not to drink beer).
Nightly, we would take over large sections of the pub. Here we have Christian, Tom, Ram, XX, Betsy, Tony (with his rubber-neck trick), Richard, Gilles, and XX with his back to us.
Betsy, a more subdued Tony, laughing Richard, animated Gilles, Roberto, Simon, and XX
Don't turn your back on anyone- especially Dave!
While the Lynchpin looks a bit disbelieving of John, Francois is entertained by Dave's antics.
Lynchpin, making quite a serious point, is simply being mocked by Dave.
Meanwhile, at the other table Christian is engrossing Jan-Erik and XX while Tony is admiring Tom's imbibinh abilities.
After the pub closed, there was also the possibility of some continued.... socializing.
Here Tony, supplier of some Strongbow to keep the night's momentum moving, entertains the Lynchpin.
And when we become too noisy to be outdoors, we move into the office area. Lynchpin, Francois and Tom show how delighted they were to have some nice warm Strongbow.
On the more subdued side of the room, Christian, Susana, Mattheau, and John drink their apple..liquer...stuff.
Dave and I took a field trip to XX, a stone circle.
Not a very good two-photo shot. But you get the idea: There is quite a high burm, a trench, and a circle of stones, that at one point were probably standing up.
Dave thinks he sees a UFO. "Now I know who made this place!" He exclaimed to me.
The entrance corridor to the stone circle.
The Conference Venue
Ah yes, of course there was a conference to attend as well. Here's my one picture of it.