I had my first Carnegie Shadowing event yesterday at Avon Valley School in Rugby, with several other shadowing groups coming in from nearby schools, too.  About 250 students and teachers all told, and what a great group!  A real pleasure.  Good questions, a very brave volunteer called Luke, and lots of enthusiastic readers (some of whom have already commented here).  The Carnegie Shadowing scheme is a moral good in the universe.

I did have to drive because of the stupid Tube strike, and on the way back, the M1 heading north was completely shut down for more than an hour because of an accident.  I've never seen a traffic jam like it.  It was backed up all the way down to the M25, where'd they shut off the entry to it because no one was moving.  I've never seen so many people standing on a freeway.

Luckily, I was going the other way.