An update, since i've been so rubbish at regualr posting...

Ok... not doing so good with the whole, keeping up-to-date thing... but a quick resume of what i've been doing recently...

well, working figures quite a lot, but that's good, i need money.

then there's driving - now that was interesting...

Decided that now i have time after exams, i'd do pass plus, then insure mum's car for a week and go places... so i did pass plus and went on the scary scary motorways :) and insured mums car. The first thing we did was for me to drive mum up to stratford, so that i could get used to the car and because we'd got cheap seats for The Comedy of Errors (which i might post a review of at some point, if i get around to it). The drive there was fine - i could actually drive!! I was quite pleasantly surprised really :D We got there in great time and saw the play, and it too was excellent - it has confirmed my thoughts that it's a really good season - so hopefully i'll persuade dad to take me to see the other two at some point.
Anywayz, driving back home and we'd nearly got to mum's flat (about 10 minutes away) and then discover that the raod's closed because of an accident - so on my first time driving a car without my intructor i got to do a turn in the road on the A46, which i don't think is something many can claim... Anywayz, we turned down some single track country lane (in the dark, at midnight, on my first long drive...) which mum hoped went in the right general direction. Got to the end of the lane fine, but it was a really really steep hill start onto the next road - so i put the hand break on - and guess what - it had snapped!!! *eek* so, um... then we wondered what do do... but eventually i reversed it down the hill a bit and rested it on the verge so it couldn't keep rolling downwards... To cut a long story short, the frindly police man that was there (because it was the other end of the road closure) stopped the traffic for us so we could just not stopped at the top of the hill junction and keep going - we did get home eventually...

Next day, we got the hand brake fixed, so i was going to drive back to cheltenham. Got half way up the hill and the power started cutting out... so i changed down a gear into first and still had no power, which was more than slightly worrying - so i stopped and swapped with mum, and it happened to her too, so i was reassured that it wasn't simply my driving... but it did mean that the car was really ****ed... so we called the break down people and i got the bus home - woohoo! this was not quite how i meant the week to turn out - although i am now well practiced in 'what to do when your car breaks down'/'you have no handbreak and are stopped on a steep hill'...

1 week later...

cars fixed!! so i insured it again and took jaunts to bath, bristol (M5, M4 and M32!!!), tewksbury and oxford, with various people, and thus, it was fun :)

apart from all the car excitement, i've been working, quitting my job and writing my CV, oh and looking up trusts that'll give me money for my gap year - there's sooo much money out there if you fit all the right catagories (which i mostly don't...)

hohum... edinburgh soon - yay!!!!