Perhaps I should stick to the day job...

I have come to the conclusion that public speaking really isn’t my forte. The talk last night went reasonably well, in terms of content at least, although I wasn’t very good at speaking to the whole room and didn’t realise that I was directing my talk more to one corner until one old lady pointed it out mid-talk. Things got a bit better once we got to the questions, although it always seems to be the men that ask all the questions! Still, I survived the experience, but I think on the whole I would prefer not to repeat it.