Ok, so July was pretty much a fail on the blogging front.  In my defence, the last two weeks have been the first two of my placement at Leicester University.  And bloody hell, a 9-5 job, 5 days a week is knackering, I spent most of the first week getting in and then taking about 3 hours to recover enough to get myself to cook.  But two weeks in ( Read more... )

 I really should have learned this lesson last year but Edinburgh during August is a crowded, unpleasant place to be.  The population doubles, with most of the 500 000 extra people being crammed onto two roads, the Royal Mile and Princes Street.  Only a week into the Fringe and I am already having to resist the urge to scream at the tourists and ( Read more... )