Last night saw my second public speaking engagement as part of the Charlton and Woolwich Free Film Festival. A few months ago, the guys I work with at school asked me to do the introductory address to their screening of Shorn the Sheep. It took me a while to get hold of a copy of the film, but eventually I penned it and delivered it last night. I think it went really well: it wasn’t a very long speech, but I think I made some quite salient points, noting the link between the contrast between urban and rural in the film to the work of Walter Benjamin, and also suggesting that that could be read as a metaphor for autism. Tracey and Kathryn, the teachers I work with at school, seemed really pleased. As with my talk on Saturday, hopefully a video will appear online soon. My second public talk went as well as the first, and I must admit, I’m now hooked.