Met up with Robert for drinks and food last night - at the Social (which I only found for the first time a month back when I met Jude there) followed by lovely Ping Pong, which I'd not been to before. Dim sum was a new experience for me, and one I'll be repeating. After a 15-year moratorium I also made my peace with Martini, in the form of a rather nice pepper-based cocktail.

Conversationally we meandered around social behaviour and SMS, why mobile networking events turn into sales pitch-fests, what it's like at network operators, and the interaction design of train toilets. Well. I say "we meandered" - Robert strode off, I dashed after him panting and every 500 yards yelped "look - a badger!", but that works for me.

And then, of course, the inevitable crawl home via Victoria...