I've now finished my degree,as I had my last exam yesterday. It still hasn't sunk in yet that I don't have to study now. It's a strange feeling!

So much so that I'm going to go and continue to learn to drive that is!

Judith
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Tom and I decided quite recently that as we both like walking that it was time that we'd do something that would raise our game so to speak. So we decided that by October we'd try and walk the Hadrian's Wall Path all the way from Wallsend to Bowness on Solway. Yesterday we started it! We walked about 9 miles from Wallsend to Scotswood Bridge(which ( Read more... )

They might be pre recorded but tonight I've had the chance to listen to Radiohead live on Radio 2. I'd forgotten how good live concerts are to listen to ( Read more... )

This weekend has been very good indeed. I was at the Walkers on Saturday evening and saw Argyle tread all over Leicester. Our away support was magnificent and outsung what felt like the entire city of Leicester ( Read more... )

Durham has been like a weather forecaster's dream today, we've had blue skies, gales, rain, sleet, a blizzard of snow and moments of calm ( Read more... )

For those who want to see the speech I was mentioning in my last post ( Read more... )

I'm currently doing some research on Militant Tendency for a presentation and have just watched an old BBC News report on Neil Kinnock's speech to the Labour Party Conference in 1985. What a speech! They certainly don't do them like that anymore! I wasn't even born when that speech was made(but I wasn't far away as I was born in late October ( Read more... )

In my German politics seminar earlier we were discussing Die Linke("The Left Party") and how their colour is purple. Our lecturer found it so funny and asked what purple meant to us. I suggested Spanish Republicanism which was patted down with "well I suppose you've got the excuse of being in Spain for a year". The actual answer was Feminism, which ( Read more... )

Yes it's Burns Night tonight and therefore all those of a Scottish persuasion or those who like Haggis can rejoice ( Read more... )

In comparison moving abroad and speaking a completely different language to your own native language is a piece of cake eh ( Read more... )