First session today with students. Some masters and doctorate computing students. Not a large group but friendly enough. The masters lot flying off to Saudi Arabia tomorrow so mostly interested in electronic access.

All seemed to go reasonably well and the two academics (Joe Onion and a dutch lady) who stayed throughout were very positive about the session afterwards and said the feedback from the students/researchers had been good. Apparently they have four lots of this intake a year so plenty of opportunities to hone what I say to them and work out whether inter-library loans and the like work internationally (I don' t think so).

H was doing the third of her 'first' sessions half an hour after I finished and had kindly said I could drop in and see how it went. Unfortunately, not only was the building at the opposite end of a complex city campus but the map I was following left a little to be desired. I didn't get completely lost (and I did ask for directions) but by ten past the hour knew I wasn't going to make it. When I eventually did loop round and actually find the building at 25 past, I discovered I'd actually passed it just in time to get there but with no labelling whatsoever on three sides of a large block I'd managed to miss it. Ah well, after doing my John Cleese in _Clockwise_ impression in a rather dodgy part of town, my ankles are now very painful. These aren't the shoes (or suit come to think of it) for running!