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I’ve had a busy week this week thanks to a visit to the Low Carbon Agriculture Show<\/a> in Warwickshire. That probably means Anna had a busy week too as I as away. Although, maybe it results in some peace and quiet for her really! As far as Morgan is concerned then it probably made no difference whatsoever to him!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Low Carbon Agriculture Show<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I’m sure I’ve mentioned my recent employment change on this blog before, but I may not have – or worse still you may not have read about it! Since December I no longer work as a Laboratory Technician in Sport & Exercise Science but have had quite a big change to work as a Digitial Content Manager for a project called Biomass Connect<\/a>. I’ve just checked and I have mentioned it before<\/a> but not in much detail as I didn’t really know what it was all about at first!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thankfully I do know in a little more detail what I’m doing in my new role now and also know quite a lot more about the project too. A good thing really as I spent Tuesday and Wednesday on a stall at the Low Carbon Agriculture show telling other people about the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monday was spent loading up the kit we’d need for the show and then driving there in a sporty looking Kia Proceed GT. I say sporty ‘looking<\/em>‘ as I didn’t feel that sporty in comparison to our Hyundai Kona EV! It was about a four hour drive so we stopped off for lunch en route. We arrived around 3pm, set up the stand and helped with the IBERS stand too. We then headed off to the nearby hotel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Meeting the Team<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The hotel was huge but nice enough. Although, it was far too hot overnight for me.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Chilling<\/a>
Chilling in Hotel Room<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

We had a quick swim in the hotel pool and then headed down for dinner. Dinner was good and a chance to meet some people from other parts of the Biomass Connect project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Biomass Connect project itself is actually quite large. It’s a \u00a35 million government funded project that comprises 8 ‘Hub Sites’ around the UK. These are based at Universities or Research Institutes where they conduct research into a number of biomass crops. On top of these there are 11 ‘Innovation Projects’ that were each awared up to \u00a34 million each to develop new technologies and techniques aimed at upscaling the production and processing of biomass crops in the UK. Our part of the project is the creation of an information and knowledge sharing hub where the results of this research and the innovations associated with it are presented to the biomass industry. The idea is to contribute to agricultural, environmental and bioenergy policy development by contributing robust evidence and facilitating interactions between policy, academia and industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As you can imagine, with so many Hub Sites, Univeristies, Research Centres and Commercial Innovation porjects involved, there are a lot of people involved too. Many of whom were at the Low Carbon Agriculture Show. Thankfully not all of them were staying in our hotel so it was a staged introduction to them for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Run in the Dark<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After a poor nights sleep in the hotel I headed out for a quick run first thing in the morning. I’d failed to bring a head torch with me though so it wasn’t that much of a run thanks to the fact that it was very dark and difficult to see where I was going. I also failed to start my watch so the Strava record was somewhat limited. It was a lovely morning though with temperatures around minus 3\u00baC and frost covering all surfaces. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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