Swanage! And other news...

Hello again, readers! Earlier this week, I was at YHA Swanage in Dorset: which is an excellent county, and I urge you to go there at once. For one thing, Swanage has a steam railway that runs to the delightful village of Corfe Castle; for another, it has a pier and some lovely beaches; but mostly, you should pay it a visit because it is a town that is just about the right size. And if that wasn't enough, the Red Lion pub appears to have a very generous quiz machine: we won four pounds on a pub quiz game that never really threatened to become difficult.

Also in this week's update:

1. I didn't get the Cambridge job. Bah. Apparently they decided to go with someone who lived locally, which does make a lot of sense from their point of view: and I would have had difficulty finding somewhere to live in Cambridge.

2. I am moving from YHA Salcombe in Devon to YHA Stow-on-the-Wold in Gloucestershire. Yay! This puts me within about an hour's reach of Stroud, and only 100 minutes from London; which is nowhere near as long as it takes to get from Salcombe to ANYWHERE.

3. I will therefore be leaving Salcombe behind on Monday, sniff. I will almost certainly miss the place, though being in a remote location without a car has had me yearning for somewhere closer to home.

4. I may be starting an internship with the Lib Dem MP Andrew George (St Ives) in the not-too-distant future. I shall keep you posted!

Thanks for reading, and do not under any circumstances burn the Koran. I recommend burning your old school books instead: much more satisfying, I would imagine.

The Evening Stanners

The Quest For Work With MPs: Partial Success!

In a surprise new move, it appears I may well get an internship this August with Andrew George, the MP for St Ives (Cornwall). Which will be very exciting indeed, I should wager.

Am also currently trying to get

a) Bar work, or playing the piano in a nearby pub once a week to raise cash
b) Work experience with an MP in July
c) Some sort of employment in Cambridge, ideally office work

But it's not easy! Am having to work very hard to actually get work. Who knew?

Still, that internship (which is going to be finalised within the next week) is definitely a good start. Now to find work elsewhere! This will (probably) involve ringing up Stephen Gilbert's office, and then Neil Carmichael's, to see if they have any work going then.

Oxford on Wednesday as well: exciting stuff! Well, at least I'm excited...

The Evening Stanners

A Message to South Africa and Mexico

GET IT ON TARGET!

Muppets.

South Africa appear to have misunderstood the importance of being the hosts. Hosts! You are not allowed to be horrendous. So ideally, keep doing what you did for the last five minutes of the half, and keep firing it towards the Mexican goalie. Because, quite frankly, he's not quite tall enough to stop everything.

But yes, at the moment, the Labour Party leadership contest looks more interesting than this: and that, as I recently found out, is a contest between five people who ALL went to Oxbridge. Oxford and Cambridge are awesome, yes: but bizarrely, neither are Labour strongholds. Paradoxical stuff!

Ah, they've re-started. And when this match is over sirs, I shall be orf to Cambridge. Cheerio!

The Evening Stanners