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