Speaker
the pandemic became my full-time job because at that point, even though that was a good two to three weeks before the government made, you know, nationwide announcements about lockdowns and things, that was when we realised this was going to be a really serious problem for all of the meetings that we were organising. And at that time we had UK but also European um meetings on the schedule for, you know, and Julie will know this, the the booking life cycle of a meeting for an association, you were just talking about you know the the and rotation of the meeting life cycle, but actually we're booking meetings four, five, six years in a advance, primarily to ensure that we can secure the venues that are required because We all know that we have a busy season in the spring and a busy season in the autumn. Nobody meets anybody in July and August and Christmas is a nightmare. So we know that stuff. But actually you were just talking about kind of the impacts of the pandemic. And even now we are still seeing the knock on impact of people having to move their meetings. I am still dealing with the paperwork from moving meetings in 2020 to 21. that then had a ah domino effect, yeah venues that we've got in play even now in 24, 25, 26 and indeed 27. So we're still dealing with that side of it. In terms of the kind of changing trends, we are absolutely 100%. I completely agree with what's been said around