Monday morning is spent preparing for the meeting I'm organising at lunchtime; once that's over I'll be able to relax a little more.

In the hall, there are more speeches, a question and answer session with Charles Kennedy, and motions for debate on Europe, small arms, the Millennium Development Goals, dentistry and mental health.

In the evening, I decide to go to a meeting about mobile phone masts, as it's been a lively issue in my own council ward following the location of the O2 masts on the Latton Bush Centre.

The speakers include Liberal Democrat MPs Evan Harris and Sandra Gidley - before they became MPs, a doctor and a pharmacist respectively - as well as Vivienne Nathanson from the British Medical Association and Mike Dolan from the Mobile Operators Association. It's an interesting debate, with most people agreeing that safety fears have been very much overstated by newspapers which either don't understand, or don't want to understand, the science behind mobile phones. But scientists and the mobile phone industry do have a responsibility to communicate better with local councils, and with local residents.

Tonight the Consumers Association is holding its Champagne Tasting. I don't see why I should resist free champagne, so I go along - and very good it is too. The Consumers Association is there with a serious purpose, however, to promote the work that it's been doing in parliament to secure reform for consumers.

When I get back to my hotel, I find that the silicon sealant is still in the bathroom, exactly where I left it. I pick it up and put it outside in the corridor.