Oh the student life.

The sun is shining on merry old England and all I want is to be lay amongst the daisies, reading Nancy Mitford novels and drinking shandy. Instead I am faced a frantic week with a total of five essays to complete. It tires me out to even think of it. It seems as a student that you have nothing to do when the weather is awful and nothing is going on. As soon as there is a whiff of fun or adventures to be had, you cannot see above a three foot tall stack of library books and deadlines enough to make one weep.

Books, Glorious Books!

My eternal desire for book buying has, once again, been satisified for the moment. I think it was the ‘3 books for £1’ which broke me… Anyway, here’s my somewhat eclectic haul this week:

• Dylan Thomas Collected Poems 1934-1952.
• Flowers on the Grass by Monica Dickens.
• The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford. (the only one that strictly speaking I needed to buy…)
• The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham.
• The Princess and the Politicians: Sex, Intrigue and Diplomacy in Regency England, by John Charmley. (a cheeky bit of history for good measure, and who can resist such a title?!)