Late this afternoon it started snowing heavily. Great big, fat floaty flakes, doing crazy dances in the wind as they whirled around frantically, as if trying to escape the inevitable touchdown and oblivion as they melted into a watery slush. My flatmates and I all bundled out and played Frisbee in the snow, and I […]
Don’t I look smart? Or at least, that’s the intention, though I don’t know whether I will be able to complete obscure the innate student scruffiness! I’ve always wanted a bow tie, and having to dress smartly for the dinner and final in the Welsh National Debating Tournament on Saturday gave me a good excuse, […]
The search for a house for next year is on! Yesterday Steve, Ben, Ian and myself went to look at our first potential house (Tom, the fifth housemate, couldn’t make it then). We decided it was too small – the living room was barely big enough for five people to comfortably be in there, let […]
Unfortunately, my article for Gair Rhydd on whether Britain should have a monarchy was torpedoed somewhat by the news that Prince Charles and Camilla are going to marry, which was announced on Thursday just around the time of the deadlines for the paper, though I didn’t hear about it until later and since I’ve lost […]
You wait for one instance of the fire alarm going off in the middle of the night, and then two come along at once. Yes, it happened again – argh!
Yesterday evening I went with some friends from CU to the cinema, and we watched A Very Long Engagement, the French film starring Audrey Tautou as Mathilde. She lives in hope that her fiancé Manech, who was sent to fight in the trenches of the First World War and has been reported dead, is alive. […]
Grrr… the fire alarm went off at around 3:15am in the morning in my halls of residence, apparently due to someone’s cooking(!) There were lots of students who were not happy bunnies, I can tell you, especially those who have exams today. I felt rather like Arthur Dent, wandering around bewildered while in my dressing […]
Someone very kindly made some comments on my idea for a new student society, so I’m going to discuss some of the points that they raised. I don’t know who they are – I initially thought they were called Robert Frost before realising that was the name of the writer of the poem he quoted […]
Let’s see, what am I planning to get up to? This afternoon I’m going to help with some open air evangelism on Queen’s Street, which should be interesting! I’m also planning to go to Soundcheck, the annual conference of SPEAK, a Christian group concerned about trade justice and other such issues. It’s at the weekend […]
Ah, freedom from the stress of revision and essay writing, for a short time at least! It was great to get out of that examination hall and stroll back in the sunshine along the path by the Taff, the water lapping and the ducks quacking. Becky (my sister) will probably be very annoyed to hear […]