Difficult but wonderful day for Mama; I was lecturing at Kingston University in London at a Doctoral Conference.

Difficult to be away from Lulu and Izzy for the entire day, but wonderful as I met the most amazing, lovely, inspiring and intelligent group of fellow academics lecturing in my field. Just the most fantastic experience!

Here I am (from left to right) with Verita Sriritana (University of St. Andrews), Mama (centre, Keele University) and Emma Bird (University of Exeter).

There were many other brilliant people at the conference who had travelled from all over the world to lecture and hear our lectures. Thanks to everyone for a great day.

(P.s. After getting up at 4am to travel down to London, this was us at the end of the day at the well-deserved wine-reception at 6.30pm!).