British Association of Retinal ScreenersAccording to my moles working undercover in the higher echelons of the British Association of Retinal Screeners, the 2010 BARS Conference will be held in... [drum roll please]... Manchester.

Rumours that the keynote speakers will include Wayne Rooney and Liam Gallagher are, as yet, unconfirmed, but at the very least I'm hoping for a tour around the Cadbury's factory with a group of type 2 diabetics.

Personally I'm still wrestling with my 2009 Conference Evaluation Form, and working out how I can give a minus score to the 'Modernising Scientific Careers' lecture. It's a difficult thing to rate though. On the one hand, it bored me to tears, had very little relevance to my job, and couldn't have been more dry if we'd heard it in Death Valley, but on the other, it was delivered by a man called Mr Mody. And you've got to admire anyone named after a type of diabetes. I might give him a 10 for commitment alone.