Should I audition for Twelfth Night ( Read more... )

I always enjoy the starts of term and new years. It gives me a new sense of purpose and refreshes my drive for whatever I need to do and each year I hope that drive will last out. It hasn't failed me yet ( Read more... )

There is something highly poetic about an english barbecue continuing in the pouring rain ( Read more... )

I just completed my 89km over 4 days. And I'm not kidding, my whole appreciating of life has changed. Toilets, baths, food, a roof, solid ground, clothes, soap all seem like luxuries! Over the 4 days I have fulfilled the roles of ( Read more... )

Tomorrow I embark on a long and painful journey - 90km over 4 days, walking for 9 hours every day (it would be 6, but we have some very slow people in our group!) In one sense it will be great - the walking will be amazing, challenging, stimulating in he physical sense. Even if it pours with rain it will still be character-building and will ( Read more... )

Well I woke up at 6 am this morning, shot up (naturally) with adrenaline, sprinted downstairs, and checked my email - the results have arrived ( Read more... )

So the countdown continues ( Read more... )

Well I'm almost as nervous as last time but I've accepted that there's nothing I can do ( Read more... )

I've been fairly busy over the last few days, ploughing forward with my reading for Oxford. One book took 150 pages to explain the religious (and heretical) views of a 16th century miller and where he got his ideas from. It sounds tedious but it was very revealing about how coherent the peasants of that time were. Communist China and 19th century ( Read more... )

I got tagged by orchidlizard. Save the women and children! (I'm listening to Pirates ( Read more... )