as the exhibition doesn’t really start until 10:00 i take it slowly and decide to have newspaper breakfast. the mushrooms today must have an appointment elsewhere, they certainly are gone by 9:00 — you can’t really expect a GBP 142 per night hotel to employ more than just a handful of mushrooms now, can you? the “natural” yoghurt must have accompanied the mushrooms on their outing today, it’s nowhere to be seen as well. the harrogate moat house is a truly comfortable hotel and offers really value for the money…comfortable if you like the slighty dilapidated, back-in-the-seventies-i-was-kind-of-nice-no-really-look and don’t mind the occasional buffed down piano standing in your way…value for the money if you are the proprietor: with a minimum of input they extract a maximum of profit. though, i’ve to be fair here: the exercise program included in the price of one night is not bad at all: of the three lifts only two are operating regularly, one all day, the other needs to take a break every so often, the otis repair man is frequently encountered in the lift the is working all the time and, judging by the announced duration of the lift refurbishment programme (and “only 6 person maximum in the lifts please!”), stands a good chance of becoming a harrogate institution…it’s amazing what you get for as little as GBP 142 a night…

on this second day of the exhibition business picks up considerably and we get quite a number of visitors to our stand. the demo works much better today (i’ve added a reload meta instruction to our demo display page ) and people generally are quite inspired by the demo (one visitor even comments that our demo is the only exciting bit of the whole exhibition) — nice!

in the evening it’s back with mannequin jonathan to my hotel room — where he gets to stay, sorry, old boy — and then with the current terry pratchett equal rites and my camera for a walk followed by dinner at bettys. i conclude the night with a phone call with doro and finishing off equal rites (as well as pint of murphys — no, they don’t do guinness, and they only have one single malt at the bar, which about sums it up).