The Thirteenth Biannual Winter Workshop on Schizophrenia was held in Davos. I went to the conference with other colleagues from the SANE building at Oxford. It was quite a lively bunch and included Clare, Tom, Adam, Steve. They were all experienced skiers and for me this was my first taste of skiing, embarrassing but exhilarating experience. Unfortunately have not done it since then and in all probability the meagre skills that I gained from the lessons have gone with the wind.