The heads and tails game as compered by Roy Cooper is already a tradition of the networking dinner, the night before the seminar and exhibition proper. It’s as simple as can be – before the toss of a coin, you decide which way it’ll fall, and place your hands on your head or ‘tail’ (backside). If you’re right, you stay in the game and keep standing. If not, down you sit. The last few in the game get to stand at the front and play the game in front of the rest of the diners. Sad to say one or two players then were guilty of a bit of gamesmanship by first going for ‘heads’ and then tails, seeking an advantage by seeing who was plumping for what – if only a couple of the last ten went for heads, and the rest for tails, someone going for heads was statistically more likely to win. For shame, that anyone could spoil the game’s purity!
Car crime doubles
Talking of statistics, you can go on the University of Nottingham website for head of security Gary Stevens’ annual report. In his last report he had to admit to a doubling in car thefts on the campus … from one to two. Cycle theft is worse on campus – more expensive cycles attract thieves.
That’s the ticket
And talking of cars, ST15 Nottingham was at the East Midlands Conference Centre, on the university’s 300-acre campus. Despite all that green space, well outside the city centre, there wasn’t quite room for all the hotel and conference car-users to park. Some delegates found that they had parking tickets on their windscreens. However, you could go to the reception and claim a voucher, so that you didn’t have to pay the fine. So why have the officers dishing out the tickets in the first place?!
