Moving on again

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can't wait...

oh. oh. Forgot to say - I bought myself a yahama clavinova! Cost me nearly one and a half thousand pounds, but it feels and sounds very nearly like a real piano. It will be delivered in a week and a half - the first time I will have had my own piano in more than 10 years! Can't wait to put my finger muscles and certain underused portions of my brain back to work again. Finally won't have to feel a fraud for putting my piano performance diploma on my CV. And the only time I have been grateful for my technically illegal Band 2A rota which means I get paid so much for antisocial working hours that I can actually afford the piano.

Front row

Here's reporting from the European Paediatric Neurology Society conference in (rainy) Harrogate! Check out the professors in the front row, some in bright orange t-shirts, the colour of the EPNS logo! The conference bags are a fashionable 'not plastic' black jute, and the sandwiches full of squishy egg mayo.
London Fashion Week this is not, but I think the world of paediatric neurology (and I imagine any other branch of medicine) has its own insiders and outsiders, rising stars, institutions (sometimes literally!) and trends that come and go.
Being a bit of an outsider (for the moment!) I spent most of my tea breaks among the hundred or so posters. There seems to be a surfeit of case reports, but some posters were quite brlliant - Ng et al made centile charts for Gower's sign, and there were a couple of molecular/genetic ones that were pretty fascinating. The best science is simple but elegant. So it will be interesting to see which one wins the prize.
Right. Have to get to bed, 08:30 start tomorrow (a lie-in compared to the 07:15 starts on thursday and today).