Had a few nights out, including a talk and our annual Xmas dinner.
The talk was by Paul Hoxey, and covered new avenues down the Mantaro river Peru. Largely due to new roads opening up the area, and largely because of mining reasons that this can be explored now.
He reckons he's found a few new species, including a short flowered Cleistocactus and a few species of Corryocactus he can't place. Also a Lymanbensonia with red flowers which looks boss.
My other day out was our Xmas meal at a pub down in Petts Wood. A lovely old building, that sadly was quite cold and such. We were in a back room that had high ceilings which didn't help, the upside of this was the food was nice and unlike work I don't have to pretend not to drink to fit in. Which is nice.
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