Lots of little things I've been wanting to add here, and it just hasn't happened. Off to Germany tomorrow to visit Deborah (!!!!), so have been packing, watering the plants (with a bit of help from the rain:)) etc in my usual scatty fashion. Yesterday I cycled up to Blenheim as there was an art/design/food festival there this weekend. What a glorious day it was! Lots of sunshine and an immaculate sky. Happy people everywhere: families of all sizes and descriptions, elderly ladies and gentlemen, lovers and somewhere behind the hundreds of windows and pillars, a wedding party. Had to leave a little earlier than I would have liked to go to 'textiles for peace' at the community centre - felting this week! I've never tried it before, really good fun. Came away with sterile hands from all the soapy rubbing. Today a good friend had her first finals exam - odd how mine finished a year ago tomorrow. It feels both immediate and so remote, and I find myself both eager to move on and looking back nostalgically to the days of endless reading and essay writing with a sense that I never quite finished anything. Four essays perhaps, maybe five. The puppets are almost done. I think I'll miss them - will have to find a new project to keep my busy:)