Long Time

Seems like a very long time that I've been away, a week in fact. And I've actually missed writing this. It felt like I'd been getting into a rhythm, daily writing, and it was very strange, and almost rule-breaking not to write it for the last few days. Work had got in the way. Finally though, all is handed in and even now handed back! Portfolios did well, and I was pleased. Relief is definitely there, but a little bit of regret, for now the term is truly finished. A whole term, it has gone so fast. It seems hardly any time that I was making my way down the M5 not quite knowing what to expect. Soon I shall be driving back up knowing a lot more than I did.

So the last few days have felt rather empty. Without a routine I've felt a bit bored and at times lonely. But those of us still hanging around in Falmouth have met up and I'm out for tea tonight, at Jacob's Ladder last night. I took myself off to Trebah gardens yesterday which was beautiful, amazing primeval ferns and giant rhubarb plants, then stacks of bamboo, and trickling streams through fairy glens, and then suddenly the sea! Bitterly cold, but wonderful.

I've kept myself here a bit longer to see some more sights - Mousehole on Sunday to see the Christmas lights, and it's somewhere I've wanted to go for a long time, and I needed to do an extra days tutoring for a little more cash. Money again, always a problem. December has been an expensive month; having to buy a new cooker did not help, plus there was a parking fine, grr, which I tried protesting against, but the constabulary were unmoved by my use of a classically structured argument, so another £30. What a waste.

I will catch up with this over the next couple of days I'm here. Swimming and baking scones beckon, as well as a bowl of lentil soup against the cold.