So what are you doing in July?

The Minding Animals conference in Newcastle looks like an absolute blinder: interdisciplinary, international, brilliantly well organised if the website is anything to go by, and featuring a number of seriously heavy hitters from a number of different disciplines. I'm having a major think about going to this; my biggest problem will be, erm, abandoning the cats for a whole week. I mean, I'll be abandoning them to the tender mercies of the sweet young vet and his nice nurses and his doubtless superior boarding facility. But still.