I've spent today in a meeting in Strasbourg as part of the NuPECC (Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee) on which I sit as a nominated delegate of the UK. This is my second such meeting, having been rather recently named on the committee, and the structure was now familiar, with a series of reports on various things to do with nuclear physics research and the general research environemnt in each member country and in a trans-national sense. As well as those activities per se, it is..