Having presented down the bill at last year's event in Sheffield, I was this time promoted to keynote and asked by the organisers to speak about scholarly activity and its impact on the learner's experience. Although I originally agreed to talk for 20 minutes, most of the previous evening had been spent re-writing the speech to last for 40 minutes due to a late programme change and the organisers "didn't think I'd mind"!
As it happened, the day's introductory presentation overran, there was an unscheduled (false) fire alarm, lunch turned up late, and yes, you've already guessed: I was asked if I could possibly shorten my bit so that the conference could finish approximately on time (the grovelling about "trains to catch", "car parking about to expire" etc was accompanied by a nice bottle of Shiraz, so of course I acquiesced). Fortunately, as the original speech I wrote last Friday was still on my pen drive (& in my head), I could deliver a coherent 20 minute slot without having to rush and now have a spare (admittedly padded), unused speech for sale if anybody's interested......
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