Had a long bastard day today. Had to get up early, well, 7ish, which is early for me (as I am a lazy shite), then go to Nottingham for a day’s work at a school there. The work was OK (once I put aside my loathing of children, a trait not generally considered good for someone working in the education sector) and the teachers very friendly to us, but we had to make a long journey, and I managed to lose my phone in the cab from the station. Luckily the very nice people at the cab firm (Bells Taxis of Hucknall, Nottingham, highly recommended) kept hold of it and I managed to get it back on the way home, but it was still a major stress, especially as it was brand new. I’ve had to block and then unblock the phone, and Orange keep on sending me dozens of SIM updates via SMS which is annoying and possibly not right.

The train journey home was hellish, missing the 1740 train home by a couple of minutes and the one an hour later got delayed further and further, we ended up detouring to Leicester to get a train from there, and didn’t get back to Cambridge until half nine.

Now chilling, having enjoyed the new Black Books (missed the first one last week), warding off the stress demons with a Staropramen, and listening to a Warp remix CD that Andy lent me - first track’s the catchy tune to those VW Polo ads, which is nice.