Lecture requests have flowed in this year from overseas and I have been to India, Indonesia, Singapore, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, Spain, Bulgaria, Poland and Russia. Everywhere I go, I experience an impressive thirst for learning. This was particularly noticeable in Mumbai, India, my first stop of the year, despite the imminent beginning of the One Day International cricket World Cup (how times have changed!) Happily, I continue to be invited to lecture in the UK and the last event for this year is on Friday, December 9th at the Royal College of Physicians. For more information: http://www.independentseminars.co.uk/content/seminars_detail.php?id=1801. I am also at the BDA metropolitan Branch on September 21st. BDA headquarters at 18.30.