Love conferences where people get together to dress up, award prizes for sales and then sleep with each other. I did a few, but stumbled across many more checking in as crew at hotels in the small hours in the midst of drunken comic-con characters.
But as and when we gather in Vegas for annual maritime-drone awards, up for best supporting supplier will undoubtably be Cheshire Mouldings; whose half-dozen strip-woods here go to form the booms, bindings and deflectors on the second proof-of-concept that will be dedicated to hover instead of cruise on water.
Accordingly I've already prepared a speech for the salesman flown in to appear with me on the red carpet:
'As a child, I used to stand in the garden staring at trees and wondering what to do with them... and little did I know then that I'd be standing in front of you today in a sequinned frock. First and foremost though I should like to thank Colin Hilton (raise statuette here), for all that he has done to turn bits of trees into drones.'
