I've just come back home from Cheltenham. It was great fun, and I'll have a quick run down of some of the best points.

• The hotel I was put up in was so posh a tiny bag of KP nuts cost £1.75. This is not a complaint.
• I can find a Wetherspoons pub anywhere. It's a skill.
• One of the staff in the 'Writer's room' wrote her dissertation on my publisher The Friday Project, including my book in it.
• Another volunteer who looked after the panel did some work experience for The Friday Project.
• Both of the above are obviously intelligence people of taste and distinction. Also pretty.
• All the guests on the panel were lovely, as was the host.
• Jed Mercurio, as well as being lovely, has given me a lot to think about.
• Feedback from the audience was apparently good - I'm glad that they enjoyed it.
• I did my first ever signing - it was *superb*.
• I still feel like some sort of a fraud. I think that I need to get over myself.
• I managed to get my favourite book of all time signed by the author ('Microserfs' by Douglas Coupland) and I managed to blabber like a fame struck idiot at the same time.

This is the first time that I've done anything public around 'literature' as opposed to internet/blogging. If they are all as interesting, well thought out, and perfectly organised as this one I'd like to do some more.

I'd also like to thank all the people involved for inviting me - it was great.

Now - back to work at 6:30am tomorrow, and back to writing about ambulance things.

As part of my talk with the panel at the Cheltenham Literature Festival I mention that there are a fair number of UK based medical blogs. I'm linking to some of them below (in no particular order, just the order I clicked on them in my RSS Reader).

This is set to post just as the panel starts and will be the 'datashadow'. Here's hoping anyway...

The social worker blog is a bit too 'corporate' to be what I'd consider a 'proper' blog (whatever that means), but there seems to be an absence of personal social worker blogs. I also can't find a UK based radiographer blog.

Suggestions of additions to this list gratefully received.

A&E Nurse blog.

Ambulance controller.

Mental Health Nurse blog.

Patient blog.

Medical Student blog.

Hospital doctor blog.

Midwife Blog.

GP blog.

Physiotherapist Blog.

Pharmacy Blog.

The collection of Social Worker blogs (Not really what I'd call blogs, but there you go...).