tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2444069458422024208.post1252528318802162087..comments2024-01-28T06:18:45.909-08:00Comments on The Curzon Group: In The Bookshops.curzon grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00593876062208166082noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2444069458422024208.post-68622267138091531462011-01-17T12:55:31.405-08:002011-01-17T12:55:31.405-08:00By Peter Stuart Smith
I'm very definitely ove...By Peter Stuart Smith<br /><br />I'm very definitely over 20!curzon grouphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00593876062208166082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2444069458422024208.post-16875287992801535702011-01-17T12:31:52.677-08:002011-01-17T12:31:52.677-08:00"not sure you got it right" Peter?
If yo..."not sure you got it right" Peter?<br />If you is over 20, I think what you is saying is wrong, innit?Leigh Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15080517449825380527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2444069458422024208.post-55958268539233652582011-01-17T05:30:57.357-08:002011-01-17T05:30:57.357-08:00By Peter Stuart Smith
I have to echo what Leigh s...By Peter Stuart Smith<br /><br />I have to echo what Leigh said above. I would infinitely rather talk to several hundred people than a class of schoolchildren. I've only so far done one talk at a school, and it was far more nerve-wracking than anything I did before or since. The reality was that the combined classes were incredibly well-behaved and very polite, and the problem was really all me.<br /><br />I found that pitching my talk to an age-group ranging from about 10 to 14 was extremely difficult. I knew I would have to dumb down the talk to some extent, simply because the vocabulary of a ten-year-old will inevitably be somewhat limited, and I was also conscious that I couldn't go too deeply into the agreed subject matter (computer hacking) because the purely technical aspects were quite complex.<br /><br />In the end, I'm not sure I got it right, but it did seem to go down reasonably well. And I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised at the very first question they asked: 'How much money do you make?'<br /><br />Was it rewarding? Yes, of course. Would I do it again? Er, maybe, but give me the jeering crowd any time.curzon grouphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00593876062208166082noreply@blogger.com