today i skip the harrogate moat house breakfast equivalent of musical chairs (though i do wonder what would have been gone today?) and go for a breakfast to bettys…on the way back to my room i fall victim to the harrogate moat house exercise program: the only operating lift, once it arrives at the ground floor quickly disgorges its load — and before i’ve a chance to get in, it rams its doors shut and disappears (does it have a date with the mushrooms and the yoghurt? i wonder…). the subsequent exercise and return trip introduces a slight delay in my demo setup.

around 14:00 the show is — to all extend and purposes — over. from now on we get about one to two visitors per hour until 16:00 when the exhibition closes de jure. by then we’ve dismantled the demos, i’ve put mannequin jonathan to sleep in his travel box (he will travel with jane to bedfont and catch the ups express back to zurich where he’s expected by tuesday next week then — that mannequin sure has seen a bit of the world: california, zurich, the cote d’azure, harrogate, bedfont), say goodbye and am off! after dropping off my almost finished two litre bottle of water in my hotel room, i home in on the local bookshops. the weather outside is really pleasant: a blue sky, a bit chilly, but it feels really good to be outside the conference hall again!

at ottokars i buy the footprint england handbook and the footprint britain guides and then retreat to bettys (yep, i just love that place). today it’s not that busy, and i get a table at the windows from where i enjoy the view across the park and towards the war memorial, do a bit of reading in the newly acquired books and update my blog.