{"id":795,"date":"2006-09-18T14:01:21","date_gmt":"2006-09-18T13:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/09\/18\/back-on-the-beach\/"},"modified":"2006-09-18T14:12:31","modified_gmt":"2006-09-18T13:12:31","slug":"back-on-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/09\/18\/back-on-the-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Back on the beach&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;this time via wi-fi on a swanky laptop (not mine, alas).<\/p>\n<p>To the much-trailed bloggers&#8217; reception last night, which was as enjoyable as promised. The headline story, of course, is that Oxford councillor and Nice Chap <a href=\"http:\/\/oxfordliberal.blogspot.com\/\">Stephen Tll<\/a> won the Blog of the Year award, and well-deserved it was. <a href=\"http:\/\/loveandliberty.blogspot.com\">Alex Wilcock<\/a> gave a very good speech and I also met a number of bloggers for the first time, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexfoster.me.uk\">Alex<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/iaindale.blogspot.com\">Iain Dale<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/millenniumelephant.blogspot.com\">Millennium<\/a>. (To the right, Iain and Mark Pack.) <br clear=\"all\"\/><a class=\"imgleft\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willhowells\/246459769\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/80\/246459769_bd9b6bcf0a.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Iain Dale and Mark Pack\" \/><\/a><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<p>After the reception, I pottered between bars, ending up in the ALG disco. 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