2 January 2023

Despite the relaxation of rules yesterday, giving the feeling that the course was over, we still had sessions last night and a 4.30am meditation session this morning which was followed by a discourse focused on how we might continue to get value from what we had learned during the week. However, these were the death throes of the course; afterwards with no particular fanfare, the informality of yesterday kicked in again and people began to drift away.

I waited a while, chatting to the staff and those yet to depart, as I had agreed to drop people at Chippenham station on the way home. But it was not long before I too was off, dropping a car full of fellow course members at the station to catch trains to all corners of the country, and then making my own way the very few miles back to my house and an afternoon slipping back into 'normality'.