Saturday Morning

This morning I woke up to a brass band playing. It's the start of the cricket season at Lord's and they are having a game/match(?) today. It's the first time that the stadium has been full since I moved here. Cricket is one game that I still don't understand and I don't have much interest in understanding. People don't really cheer at Cricket games. I've been sitting with my window open for about 40 min. and I've only heard one polite 4 sec clap from the crowd. Not like the footy.

The stands are full here. Sorry that the trees take up so much of the picture.




I'm headed up to Cambridge in a couple of hours. I need to return a video before catching the train. We actually watched Borat the other weekend. I know, I know. I spent the morning tidying my flat. I had worked some long hours this week and it got dirty in the process. I'm going to go running in Regents Park in a little bit.

Not much else is happening here. Still no definitive word on the secondment idea. I do have a good lead on a place to live in Cambridge. It's actually in Newnham which is a really green area of Cambridge. It backs up to sporting grounds which back up to the meadows and the river. It would be a 20 min. walk for me to go to work and it's also close for Jeddie to walk to the UL or the Classics Faculty. I've yet to see the inside, but the desciption sounds charming. We'll see. I also likely have a place to live post 6 June in London. I'm not worried about being homeless. I'm also just trying to be really patient about not knowing the outcome of the secondment.

I'm sure that JEd will give you a full rundown of the conference on his blog, but the first day went really well. People kept telling him that his paper was excellent! Yeah!! :)