And the BAFTA for wettest cyclist goes to.....

......Stellarossa! who cycled to the station in a torrential downpour and sat damply on a train to London, a tube train and then through a 3 hour session at the BAFTA building yet did not win a single award and remained slightly damp, with wet patches for an entire day.

Actually I was at the BAFTA building not for an awards ceremony but for War Child's 20th anniversary with an array of speakers on the changing nature of conflict including William Hague , Richard Branson (by video presumably from his lovely island in the Caribbean) and Helena Kennedy QC amongst others. The were also some very interesting and rather startling presentations on robotic warfare - not just drones, but the use of robots that develop artificial intelligence, leading one speaker to speculate when we'd see the first death as a result of an algorithm gone wrong.

However the most moving speaker came on last, with no notes. Messi, a young man from Sierra Leone who told us about the day, aged 11, he went to collect water before going to school, heard shooting and by the time he'd raced home his family has disappeared. He then tried to survive alone, in a war zone, was forced to become a fighter, but finally escaped and now campaigns to protect children from war and its impacts. He was a terrific speaker, with a powerful story, and reflected on his humble beginnings, to his trip to Buckingham Palace last week with Malala Yousafzai, the young Pakistani girl who was shot by the Taliban.

It was a powerful and moving day.

I'm rather ashamed to put up this photo, though, it is such poor quality, I had quickly whipped out the camera and clearly didn't pay attention to focussing.