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I'm not sure it counts as research and enterprise activity (I should be so lucky to get it into ref 2020) but I was last week doing a tiny part to promote tourism in the Isle of Man. Us academics are supposed to be involved in spreading the word. On Sunday, at the annual Festivale InterCeltique, I helped carry a flag and hand out sweets, supporting the Isle of Man dance group Ny Fennee, as they represented the island in the Grand Parade of Celtic nations (my sister was dancing hence how I got in - and she's not even a fancy PhD like myself).

Give me a bit of flag waving over article editing any day. The crowds are much nicer. And their feedback far more positive than my first round reviewers ever are. Why can't my submissions ever just be clapped and cheered? One day, one day...

One devious idea might be to tag some sweets into my appendices. The crowds went mad for them after all...

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