This week the XMM-Newton workshop is taking place in Madrid XMM is still going strong 17 years after its launch to space! Although I couldn’t attend the meeting myself  some of my group’s work got showcased in the invited talks  specifically Jürgen Schmitt’s talk on “Exoplanets and their Host Stars”  where some of my tidal spin-up work was shown  and Beate Stelzer’s talk on “Cool Star X-ray Variability”  where the work of my PhD student Rachel Booth on age-activity relationships for old main-sequence stars was mentioned