I wish I had more time to update this thing, but unfortunately I can't see that happening until at least July 2004! I haven't even had time to restart the sabb weblogs on ussu.co.uk since they mysteriously died a few months ago.

I seem to be getting into work between 9 and 10am each day, and then leaving any time between 6pm (very rare) and 4am (slightly less rare) - crazy stuff. We only have 3 more weeks left on barefacts before Christmas, and at last we seem to be settling into a routine that works quite well. I have Chris, Ben, Neil and Pete all trained in laying up, and they're gradually taking more and more pages off my back. All I need to do now is phase in the new Friday 5pm article deadline, and all will be sorted... It's getting to be quite a problem when I have 4 willing volunteers all of Monday and no articles cos most of my section editors insist on sending theirs in at, or even after 5pm! It takes on average an hour pwe page (laying up, designing etc), so do the maths, and work out how late we normally stay on a Tuesday night!

Last weekend Ben and I went up to Cambridge to visit my sister at Christ's College, and had a wonderful time going to formal hall, a cocktail bar and then on a nice touristy wander round the town. Since I visited all those many years ago in 1998 I've only been up once, a year ago, so we had a great time. Ben had never been there before, and was suitably impressed by its other worldliness! ;o)

Today we've returned from a weekend at Ben's home home near Salisbury, which was grrrrrreat. His family are absolutely wonderful, and we had a great time going into Salisbury, watching an amazing fireworks display and making the most amazing coconut/vanilla/banana/cream cocktail in the world. T'was pretty cool.

So, we're now almost into week 10.... phew! 3 more weeks of barefacts, 3 more weeks of lectures for Ben, and then we can go and do all sorts of exciting things (like see LotR RotK when it comes out - whoopee)! Ah yes, and there's the small matter of Ben's final year exams, but I'm sure he'll do wonderfully.

Ben - I love you. X x X x X