Good morning. I am in Portland, Oregon for the Press Publish Conference. I have my itinerary, name tag and my goodies bag. I am thinking I might wear my “I Love Sheila My Big Fat Pig” T shirt. I will try it on with my skirt right now. I think it might work with this colourful crowd.
Last night, by the time I arrived, Portland was turning the lights out. So the only shots I could bring you were from my lovely, lovely hotel room at The Embassy Suites, downtown.
But I was so tired I could barely keep my eyes open so off to bed I went.
Once I have sent you this I will go off down to have breakfast (I am starving) and very soon this day will unfold. It might be just another day for many people, but I am the kind of person who is easily entertained and excited by ordinary events so I am sure to find some new and interesting things to tell you tomorrow.
And because of the live streaming you can be there too, if you want to. My talk ( 1.45 Pacific Time) including question time is 30 minutes. But I am thinking – what if people don’t ask me questions. Do you have any questions for me? That is a useful thought. I could put a few of your questions up my sleeve in case of uncomfortable silences.
It will be fun though. Now I had better go, iron my skirt and wrestle my hair into some semblance of order and find some food. Now that is not my usual morning is it?!
I shall report back tomorrow.
Lots of love,
Your travelling friend
celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
72 responses to “Portland”
Celi, you were great. Lovely to have a voice to the face at last 🙂 Laura
The complete Celi! That was wonderful!
i thought you were great. you could see the teacher come out in you again as if it had never left. it is nice too put a face and voice to a read. everything reads a little different now and better. i agree with the others you were wonderful.
Applause! So nice to see you actually move and speak! (Considering we only see animals in scenery – it was great fun as you showed us how large the farmy livestock if they stood next to you!) Such great fun. You charmed them all!
(You’re pretty small to be muscling all that farm work – and with a lovely hairstyle!)
Congratulations on a ‘job’ obviously well done!!! Am peagreen with envy! My test result worked just fine but your session refused to stream : probably too ancient software! No use being told to switch computers: only have the one 🙂 ! Shall try to get the panel show but . . .
Best lines of the day from Portland: ‘I don’t have piles and piles of readers’ . . . that from our Celi: huh????? Yes, somehow got thru’ for most of the panel discussion before being cut off again a few minutes back: Eureka!!! Fantastic, even if the others had individual book offerings and you presented ‘The Fellowhip’!! Loved your hair [what a very feminine observation!] . . . found you not so much Miss C but more a gorgeously feminine Celi . . . . what a privilege, even if but a short one in my case! God bless: have a happy trip home!!!!
Loved your segment. Your pictures were stunning and your farm and pursuits sounds awesome. Thank you for sharing.
What a wonderful talk. You rocked!! They loved you! Have a safe trip back!
I missed just the beginning of your presentation (my computer is slow to crank up) and your intro on the forum (ditto) but was fascinated with seeing you live. What fun and I loved it.
I saw you and heard your voice! You are lovely, and it was so much fun hearing you describe us and the Farmy, and the Fellowship. You did great! I loved the photos you chose. I didn’t realize how similar your NZ landscape was to your current landscape. Cool! Alas, I lost the feed maybe a little more than halfway through, disappointing! But it was so much fun to catch what I was able to!
I am so disappointed that I had to work through your livestream. I was looking forward to hearing your voice. I do hope it went well, and I know just where you were in downtown Portland, and I so hope you enjoyed all the green and that you got tons of questions.
It was so much fun to listen to you talk about the animals! You did a great job – Sheila has no idea what a superstar she is!
Congratulations Celi, your presentation was fabulous. You looked great! and came across very real, warm & engaging like you’d just met up with a group of people and were having a chat about your passion, which of course you were but it was also apparent you had prepared and structured the discussion to cover it logically and fully.
As for me, well, that tells you I did it 🙂 Managed to livestream via phone with the G.O. driving the car along the NSW, Australia M1 freeway in between family appointments early Sunday morning, with phone held between us in one hand and coffee in the other!
PS I thought you looked fabulous! in the Big Fat Pig t-shirt
I’m sorry that I missed your time in Portland. 😦 I signed up for the live-streaming….then my day fell apart and I could not watch. Will there be a way to see it elsewhere…..after the fact?
yes darling, they are talking about releasing the tapes sometime in April.. late april probably.. so all is not lost! c
That’s good news about there being tapes! I’m so excited you are able to go and have this experience.