The past few weeks in the life of the world's most sporadic blogger..

It's been a while since I updated this, I admit, but that's life, I'm a busy person (even though an English student).
So, to very quickly summarize, my last few weeks have involved the following...

1) Childhood Death in Victorian Literature - the dissertation is coming along fairly well, I've written just under half in a first draft and I have planned in fair detail all of it, so now its just a case of getting on with it.
2) Nearly being eaten by Dartmoor ponies - one of a couple of little trips while I was in Exeter for the first bit of the hols, involved a walk with Luce and James on Dartmoor including incredibly violent Dartmoor ponies and very steep gorse infested slopes.
3) A 22 mile cycle ride - which might not sound a lot but James and I really are quite unfit and besides, I actually cycled about 26 due to a moment just before lunch when I went sailing past James and didn't realise for some time that he had stopped a while back.
4) The world's greatest homemade dessert - several weeks in the making apparently and created for me by Hazel (Oi, you at the back, stop aah-ing)
5) Returning to my homeland - Farnborough is as exciting as ever, and I am sorry to report that all my mates are still gripped by the craze that is the card game 'Killer Bunnies and the Quest for the Golden Carrot', even Tom who is supposed to be defending the country. What can I say?
6) A new tie, and other new items of clothing - it's a long story, but suffice it to say these were formly the unwanted garments of Hazel's parents and grandparents, whom I visited yesterday.