I know this is really late; the worst thing is I’m actually writing this a week late, I don’t know where the time has gone, one minute things were dragging and then two weeks have gone by.

Despite the fact they’ve gone quick I don’t remember them being particularly exciting, obviously after Disneyland life had a lot to live up to, and by lunch time on Monday our adventure felt like it had happened weeks ago. That’s the problem with labs, interesting work or no, time seems to loose all meaning as you go through the day. I don’t know what was wrong with me that week; I turned into such a wimp! I got the results back from an experiment and they were really good and I knew I had to ask for more work, usually something no one worries about, but me, no I panicked and couldn’t bring myself to go ask, I know it’s stupid, who tells someone off for wanting more work and as usual instead of something bad happening- not that I can think of anything that would have been bad- I was given a new experiment.

I annoy myself sometimes.

On Wednesday we went over to Rob and Sarah’s, Rob is working on a new internet game- he’s very good at it- but the game stumped me, but then I’m not renowned for my game playing skills… We only went over to watch Serenity, I hadn’t seen the TV series firefly but now I want to, the film was pretty good.

Rachel and Andrew had a presentation to do this week, on Friday, so Thursday night they were doing ‘run throughs’ and for once I was glad that I had lots of assignments instead of a presentation, but by the time they’d done theirs I realised that, actually, a presentation wouldn’t be half as bad. It’s not as if the assignments are hard it’s just difficult to fit them in, I don’t like working on them in the lab because I reserve that for lab work (obviously) an my literature review but by the weekend I always just want to sleep and have fun!

That wasn’t really an option this weekend my parents were arriving Saturday lunch time but then they were delayed until about three, they were bringing over lots of nice tasty things. It’s not because I miss them (except sweet chilli sensations) it’s just we have to carry all of our shopping home and it’s heavy so it’s nice to have parents to help. They took me to Auchan so that meant I could get lots of milk and heavy things like fruit and not worry about carrying it all home.

We went to the flammekeuche place on Saturday night with Andrew and Rachel- I know we go there all the time but it’s really good and reasonably priced and right at the Gare-Lille Flandres metro stop. I spent the night at my parents hotel so, I was sharing a room with my brother which hasn’t happened in a while and he decided to talk until two AM which although nice to talk to him, meant I was shattered the next day which didn’t help the fact it was freezing.

Edinburgh is cold, but this, I don’t think I’ve ever been that cold! We went back to Ypres to show m brother the cloth hall and cathedral and my Mum wanted to go to Passendale, we went to a museum about the Battle of Passendale which was interesting and in a lovely old house/ chateau in the Belgian style. We tried to stay in doors because it was so cold, the river around Lille had frozen over! It really was cold, we decided to finish at the Tyne Cot Cemetery, it was a bit cold though and we just walked through quickly with our faces hurting- we’d like to go back in the warmer weather- it really is something to see. Going to Ypres and any of the war sites is interesting but more than that humbling, and if like me your imagination gets the better of you, it’s horrifying.

I was glad to get back- to my room full of food and nice things, I sad goodbye to my parents and we had our Sunday meal, Andrew cooked pastry in the microwave, then we settled in to watch ‘Chocolat’ – the one with Johnny Depp, Rachel had never seen it.

Well I wasn’t sure I could remember all of that but I’ve rambled on for a bit haven’t I? Sorry, I won’t be so late next week!

Until next time…