Having sorted through the mountain of heavy catalogues and shiny, shiny promotional material that was dumped on given to me at BETT i’ve now been able to process the wonders I discovered there.

1) Schoolchildren pay absolutely no heed to running past you and knocking you over wherever they are; it’s not just in your school, and it’s not just you. They do it to everyone.

2) Bring your own lunch. £6.99 for a 6 inch pizza beggars belief. And empties your wallet rather too quickly.

3) Nodding and smiling is an excellent substitute for being interested, but beware, if you nod at the wrong time you’ll find yourself sitting on an hard orange bench, forced to watch a ‘fun afternoon demonstration’ for an hour with a group of equally bored confused teachers.

4) Virtual learning environments are the future; and there’s no point trying to convince yourself it’s any other way. Books will become ‘digital data’; the library will be turned into a ‘learning pod’.; and resistance is futile.

5) While it is in London, Olympia still remains one of the most obscurely difficult places to get to, with tubes only running every other Friday in a month with a full moon it’s a veritable miracle if you make it there before the end of next year’s BETT. Thank god for the Teachable bus to Hammersmith.

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