Thanks for the update on the May meeting - I was recovering from Emma's engagement party. We have a lot happening, Emma and Andrew are off to London to live in July, back next March for a wedding and Chris and Leesa's baby is due in August.

However today I went to the Sydney Writer's Festival at Katomba and heard a wonderful conversation with Andrew O'Hagan, on his new book Be Near Me, which I bought, Hazel Rowley on Beauvoir and Sartre which I recommend, Frank Brennan and the launch of Emily Ballou"s book Aphelion