I'm Still Alive!

And to prove it, I'm in Falmouth on Monday to see Uni people, wooooo :-D

I'm sorry I'm so terribly slow, I really should update more frequently! But in fairness I've been super busy recently: the hostel takes up a lot of time, and I don't get much internet down here in Salcombe.

So here's what you need to know atm:

1. I have lots of cards: you guys are awesome :-D Except for the blokes. Blokes, you have sent me no post. GET IT SORTED.

2. I was up in London on Monday and Ipswich on Tuesday seeing my girlfriend Rachel. That's right, the poor girl has agreed to go out with me. Heaven help her. You'd think a Cambridge student would know better, wouldn't you? But seriously, she's awesome you guys, and I will stop now before I get too soppy. Eeeee :-)

3. I'm in Falmouth this Monday for one night only! So yes, do feel free to give me a shout and we shall meet up and it will be awesome. I'm thinking of doing the St Mawes ferry, but we'll have to see.

Take care people! Remember, now matter how bad your day is, at least you're not Nick Clegg. His popularity is most bogus, dudes...

The Evening Stanners

If you gallivant around the country...

Then you might not always update your blogs on a regular basis.

Shocking stuff.

So what's happening?

1. The England football team were awesome. Then they failed at life. C'est bizarre.

2. I may have a summer job in Devon. More on that story later!

3. I keep getting e-mails from various parties telling me the budget was right/wrong/necessary (Conservative, Labour, and Lib Dem, in that order). Personally, I think Nick Clegg's e-mail was closest to the truth. He may be in a somewhat unimportant role, but he does talk sense.

4. Holland are beating Slovakia. They're my sweepstake team. This is therefore good news.

5. I had the most awesome time in London on Friday, even if Rachel Hill did beat me at Air Hockey AND Ten Pin Bowling. I will have my vengeance, in this world or the next...

Update later on today, with any luck!

The Evening Stanners

P.S. Oww, sunburn. I am a forgetful wossface.

Recent Bereavement

Hello everyone,

Apologies for the blog being so light over the weekend: sadly my Grandmother, Elizabeth Grey, passed away yesterday morning after suffering a heart attack. I will be up in London for the funeral at some point in the future, but for now would like to thank all those I know who passed on their sympathies to me yesterday: it was greatly appreciated. The news did come as a slight shock, but she had a good innings and she went peacefully, and I am grateful for that.

I would also like to dedicate at least part of this blog to my grandmother, as a great deal of my time during the election campaign was spent in her company. She was exceptionally adept at discussing politics to the last, and a great deal of my knowledge about both past and present governments is largely thanks to her (especially about that "crook" Harold Wilson, and the politics of Northern Ireland). She also made a point of giving me far too much food in the mornings, but grandmothers do have a habit of spoiling their grandchildren, and mine was no exception.

Possibly one of the most amusing incidents during the election campaign was when I brought a copy of the Guardian into her house: my Gran is instinctively Conservative, and she was quite glad when I recycled the offending copy! That said, she never paid much attention to the newspapers: as long as she listened to Desert Island Discs on a Sunday, got the occasional tenner on the lottery, and lived under a strong (and preferably Conservative) Government, she was happy. She will have died safe in the knowledge that the Tories were in power: it's the way she would have wanted it.

R.I.P. Gran. "Hello, 0929?" won't sound quite the same on the phone now.

The Evening Stanners