This is a far cry from some of my posts – the BETT Show at Olympia last week where hundreds of companies strut their technological stuff to punters from the education world – many of them from overseas.  Friend and colleague Tom Rank and I were there to give a talk on ICT in English teaching. We also helped  out on the stand of a small company which has created an interesting piece of software to help students manage audio recordings  (follow this link ).  The noise and the razzmatazz soon gets tiring, however, and I was happy to get away to the British Museum exhibition on Saturday morning – of which more in the next post.