Event ends with a crunch

Forgot to post this when it was written.

Spent last weekend at the AGM of the Institute of Engineering & Technology (Switzerland). The meeting and the accompanying lectures were held in Bussigny a small village just outside of Lausanne. Carol and I drove down Saturday morning and stayed over until Sunday afternoon.

Apart from the usual activities of an AGM there was some interesting stuff too :-) including three lectures, two around mobile network activities The first was "Next generation mobile networks" from Dr. P Meisner, Operating Officer of NGMN Alliance and the Second was about a Professional network of Wireless Pro's "Wireless Monday" who are doing some innovative work in their "spare" time from Dr. C Florian. The final lecture was from Prof. Gardiol about the experiments carried out by Marconi in Salvan (CH) and the controversy between Italy and Switzerland over where these early important experiments were carried out.

Hm, perhaps that is the real strategy behind Italy's redrawing of their borders due to the glacier changes. Salvan is only 20km to the Italian border :-)

Had a nice meal in the evening complete with a musical inderlude from a couple of our members. Next morning we took a wander round the lakeside in Lausanne taking in the unexpected weather. Got back late Sunday afternoon and finished the weekend with a bang.

As we came into the turning place for our drive Joss called us on my mobile to ask when we were coming back, I told him, of course, soon and hung up the phone. For some reason I assumed I had already put the car in reverse to make the final maneuver into our drive and discovered I hadn't as we moved forward and into our wall..... One of those especially embarrassing and, no doubt, expensive maneuvers.