Commissioning 2011

Its not quite the red eye train, its 10 o'clock at night, but after a couple of glasses of wine I'm feeling relaxed and distinctly sleepy. I'm on the 21.40 form Euston to Manchester Piccadilly and travelling in first class. Cost - £35 and all the wine you can drink. Ben Jones happens to be on the train too and has sat opposite to me. He's a good guy from church and I'm pleased to be journeying with him.
We've both got up early for a meeting in London and obviously both book the cheap first class ticket back. I've been here on one of my talks at the 'Commissioning 2011' conference at Kensington Olympia. Pretty cool and on the day the government have made major announcements on the future of the NHS, the place was buzzing with excitement.
The last event was a 'panel discussion' by the good and the great, A knight and a dame of the realm, a professor, and a retired senior nurse. None of them have done a single day's commissioning, but there they were pontificating and trotting out the government line.
Anyway, I was there talking too, rather earlier, on increasing capacity and capability of primary care. They were queueing up to get into the room and I got some good questions. Several people came up afterwards and asked further questions, so they must have been interested.
Perhaps I'm quite good at this, do you think?