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<\/a>Bed and Breakfast (and an Indian meal). Lovely place, nothing too fancy. Better a B&B than a hotel though because I can get a bit of a better feel for the local atmosphere and get a good steer about which places to avoid for my evening meal. \u00a0 As it happens, I’m unlucky, because the place I’m recommended stops serving food about 30 seconds before I get there. \u00a0 Off to a random Indian restaurant. \u00a0It’s not ideal, ‘cos it’s fattening, but it’s fun! :)<\/li>\n<\/a>Back to my room to do some research for the new presentations book<\/a>. For anyone who’s into that kind of detail, the stuff I’m reading at the moment was written by the Home Office’s “Nudge Unit”… pretty fascinating stuff. Honestly!<\/li>\n<\/a>As always I’m there at least an hour before my punters are due so I can check the technology and so on. \u00a0This is a half day presentation for some pretty senior staff, so the audience isn’t large – but the venue looks like it’s going to be a lot of fun….. and when I say ‘fun’ I mean PITA…<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nRaybould’s Rule Number Two – never trust the venue… and I have to make a quick dash back to my car to pick up the emergency speakers I always carry in case the venue hasn’t got any, no matter what they say they have. There’s just time for a quick health and safety check and to go through my preparation checklist (called Ties and Flies – I leave you to guess why!) and get a cup of tea before the audience are due to start arriving and then it’s<\/p>\n