Scene and not heard

Our summer reception tonight and we held it at our new building. I was put in the 'behind the scenes' team, made up of 5 of my male workmates, and which led to cries of gender bias. We did some banner erection and chair rearranging before the event.

A colleague gave an interesting talk about Vietnam. Later being stuck talking to a bigot invited as someone's guest prevented me from accessing the buffet. I had to vociferously disagree that Vietnamese people were 'primitive' because hunting wild animals is a cultural tradition since the dawn of time. And that 'not caring about cultural beliefs' is going to make for a successful conservation strategy. I also disagreed that the British army should be used to pilot into places like remote mountainous Vietnam and tell people not to hunt bushmeat.