The Sound of Winter

Tonight I've seen three things that could change my life forever:

http://www.horsedeathwatch.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvGHMTJLmYQ

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/oct/01/horseracing.sport

Truly shocking stuff. I hate myself for being so ignorant. The Winter has been a bad one, but I've been trying! The help has been there too - I must reignite that when Mum and Dad return from Portugal.

The Sun shone so brightly today. Maybe I can finally land the fatal blow on this addiction. That is all I can write for now as I've been at a similar place before. We shall see.

Old

Two funny things from today:

I was out last night at Walkabout with Sam Ward. I had been reading for Franc's Gambia essay (due today) for what seemed like weeks (I think it was about 2 hours) and had done 300 words out of 2000. So Sam convinced me I needed a break. That break soon turned messy when Sam insisted we do 12 shots each, in quick succession. Anyway, Pip was out - I "danced" with her for a bit. Well, that's how she tells it. I thought I was just talking. So I saw her today outside Keddie's and she said that after I left this dancing conversation, her friends came up to her and asked "who that old guy was" that she was dancing with. Holy macaroni.

Secondly, I had to deliver some census forms around Nunnery tonight. Felt like a little bit of history, it's going to be the last one. Wow, I HAVE learnt something at uni. The point is I had to slide one under ever door and in one of the flats, I slid one under and heard a loud "ouch!". I just burst and laughing and legged it.

I hope he's okay, I really do.

History

So yesterday I watched Neil Oliver's "A History of Ancient Britain", which was fucking great. When I went to bed, I continued to read Graham Stewart's excellent "Britannia" and learnt about the great King Alfred. This book is teaching me so much and makes me want to learn so much more!

I really enjoyed last year's history module "European Cultural Identities and Ethnic Minorities" with Robert Hudson. I actually found myself looking at the Open University website about 2 weeks ago to see about a part-time history degree. I was thinking about it this morning, just as "History" by Bush came on my playlist- a 1 in 1792 chance.

Could this be a sign?

I got up early this morning to do some productive crap, but ending up watching as many TedCrusty videos as possible, featuring one that made me cry with laughter. To finish, I can't believe this is my first Bush referenced post.