After all my visits to Canada over the years, I have never really spent time away from the main cities. My visit to Paul Begley was to sort that out. Paul is a (or rather is a freshy retired) Professor at Nippissing University in Northern Ontario. He customarily did a lot of his work from home, and as of the Victoria conference is now retired. We had arranged to spend some time working over issues to do with our running of the Values conference next year and ...

You might well ask why so long since the last entry. Well, ask,,,, All right then, here goes. I've been a bit busy. It goes like this. Friday was spent crossing the continent and zig zagging across the US/Canada border from Vancouver to Seattle to Chicago to Toronto, and then by shuttle to London. Unlike the east-west epic, this one was anxiety free and everything ran on schedule. I arrived in London at a little after 10pm to be met by Alex who drove me to hi...