Just wanted to say I’m reading your missives on the USA trip and they are thoroughly engaging and you are quite clearly picking up tonnes of insights, learnings and tips. I only hope that Oonagh Robinson who wrote a misguided, misinformed and totally negative article in Thursday’s evening post is also reading your blog,

She has questioned, with a total lack of understanding, and facts on the cost, that there is any basis of the Sheriffs trip, other than an jolly at the Nottingham tax payers expense.

Hopefully you will get the opportunity to put the real facts, costs (or not in your own case) and benefits to the future development of Nottingham as a far better tourist city, when you get back. If they let you out of Alcatraz! Just remember that trick with the bedsheet and metal weight that Sean Connery did in The Rock to get out!!