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Off on a training course today, and I cannot deny that the fact it was taking place just 4 miles from my house helped influence my decision to apply for it - for some reason, I seem to be extraordinarily fortunate in my external training applications, since every one I've applied for has been approved. I should also say, I am extremely underwhelmed by a self-proclaimed conference centre which runs out of cups for mid-morning coffee because too many people took their cups into the first session with them.

But anyway, since I've been running training myself, I wonder if I've become hyper-critical when it comes to other people's training. I know when I started writing I became much more aware of various authorial tricks, not to mention cliches (don't get me started on 'he let out the breath he wasn't aware he'd been holding...' and variations on that theme!), in professionally-published works in particular. Was it wrong of me to fill the teeny space for comments on the feedback form (itself a source of complaint for me) with a mini-lecture on how illegible Powerpoint slides can become when printed as handouts and then also printed on coloured paper? Probably, but I did it anyway. ;)

*puts soapbox away for now*