Dear African Archaeobots, I have received your card with such enormous pleasure. It is wonderful of you to have remembered me at your 5th International Workshop - very very many thanks. I so much wished I could have joined you all. The meeting obviously went extremely well, and, judging by the abstracts, must have been so very interesting as usual - many congrats to Mary Anne and Dorian for organising such a brilliant programme.  With all my very best wishes, Ann.