Maybe I really do care about globs...

Afternoon all.

First off, a couple of comments about "Globular Clusters Systems and Elliptical Galaxies", which was the title of one of the Friday lunchtime talks. Norris (Durham) convinced us that the colour-metallicity link in globs is not straight-forward (are these things ever) with the former essentially being bi-modal, the latter not. Thus when you study a sample of ~100s of globular clusters from around 8 or so nearby elliptical galaxies, you conclude the globs formed *very* early on, in situ with the galaxy itself. The glob-spiral link is still up for debate though. Very nice stuff. Maybe we all should care about globs after all...

Gao (Durham) gave the other FLT, which can basically be summed up by saying "we have no clue when, how or where the very first generation of starts formed".

On the paper front, after a horrible Wednesday but really good Thursday and Friday, the referees comments and subsequent corrections have been finished. The paper has gone back to the 2SLAQ collaboration for one (*final*) time and may well appear on astro-ph before the end of term. Yay!!