A mega day of work. Meetings from 9.30am til lunchtime, and then intensively working on our conferences. My programme is finally shaping up and I may have a former Miss Black Deaf America as one of my speakers. Brains and beauty! Her proposed topic is on ‘who controls the Deaf community’, so I am hoping it will elicit a lot of discussion. I’m still on tenterhooks waiting for a really famous person in the deaf world to get back to me about being a keynote presenter and if he says yes, it’ll be an amazing coup for us.

The evening was spent doing more prep for going away. We have a house sitter, so lots of tidying in the garden and rather than emptying the freezer we now have more apple juice than we’ll be able to drink before we go. Is there a cocktail with apple juice? I might have to invent one…