Hi Loka, great tip off on The Killing. I've watched all the available episodes on i-player (5 of them) and I'm now waiting like a man addicted to crack for the next episode on Sunday. It's a good job that they are on every day from then and not once/twice a week or I would have had to buy them all tomorrow. Superb TV. Cheers, Neely.
Oh excellent well done, you are sure to do extremely well, it sounds very interesting stuff. I'm fine thanks. I've just got my (undergraduate) dissertation to do "Art and Life in Dorian Gray" and then just two 20 credit modules to do starting in Feb (politics) and then I'm done. It looks very likely then that I'll be going through teacher training at the secondary school I'm at, it seems that it's the course I'm drifting towards anyway - got to make money somehow I suppose... Damn I've just burnt the sausages, there's smoke everywhere got to go...
Hey-ho, Neely! I'm fine - currently in the middle of (slowly) writing my dissertation "On the Character and Function of the Witch-Queen in Old Norse Literature". It's great fun, but as usual I have far too much material... Yes, I'm still at Durham - they've offered me a place to read for a Ph.D, so I shall be around here for a few years yet! How are things in Sheffield?
Hey Loka, how are you, how's the study going on? Are you still at Durham University?
No, not happy of course, not keen at all.
Yes and what a mess it all is really, well uncertainty at least. The people who didn't get to vote and the postal votes that went missing adds to the mess as well. I suppose it is just a case of waiting and seeing what happens next.
Well, that was a mad night, wasn't it? Some real surprises, and some rather horrible implications!
That's true, some "big guy" at the Bank of England said that whoever gets in and has to make the cuts will not see power again for a decade! I live in Blunkett's constituency, Brightside, (or poor side) which is solidly labour so my vote makes little real difference either way in reality. Up until a few weeks ago I wasn’t going to vote at all, but I think I will now. Sheffield has a Liberal council and most people are far from happy with them, so I hope for a change in that regard at least.
As it so happens, I mailed off my postal vote this morning - it makes more sense for me to vote in my Welsh marginal seat that here in the North-East. I'll admit to being a Tory though! To be frank, whoever gets in is going to have one heck of a time of it, and will probably end up tremendously unpopular as a result of the economic fallout.
So who are you punting for in the general election then? Looks like a hung parliament really, with the Conservatives closest to the mark. I personally don't trust the Tories, but then again, I don't trust any of them really! I think maybe a hung parliament then a re-vote some months later.
