Frances Bell

Art, I love the Pergamon too. A fascinating comparison between Western and Eastern civilisation - I am looking at an image from the Ishtar Gate as I type this - wow!

Not quite ready to enrol N, but I am tempted having just returned from Berlin where I spent an enjoyable morning looking at the Egyptian treasures there see http://www.museumsinsel-berlin.de/index.php?lang=en&page=3_3_1
Obviously Queen Nefertiti's head was beautiful but I was really bowled over by the timelessness of the Green head.

Some colleagues of mine are concluding their research project on why so many women leave the IT industry. They have some interesting findings and stories that they will be reporting on in their blog http://dw-nw-ict.blogspot.com/, and via more traditional means. If you are interested, do get their RSS feed to check out the women's stories they will be posting over the next few weeks, and make comments or contribute your own stories, publicly or privately.

I know the feeling Martin. We have three family birthdays next week, and I haven't even finished buying for those , let alone Christmas.

When I read your reply, I realised that I had misunderstood the question
I have heard Ian Usher speak about his work in Buckinghamshire, here is something on Wikipedia