She moves in her own way

Endless train journeys are somewhere between tedious and totally aggravating. Seven hours seems disproportionately long to travel from Wales to England. (They are next door to each other!)

Wales was marvellous. I forget how good it feels to be so far away from it all, but escapism is pure peachy bliss. Swimming in the Irish Sea in February is like agony and ecstacy at once, something you find in few other activites that don't involve drugs. Apparently. Amazingly enough, my grandad managed to restrain himself from racist Welsh jokes for at least two days. Unfortunately everything went downhill very quickly when my uncle and his army of people/animals arrived. Collectively they are the ultimate case of "LOVE their dog, HATE them". Jimminy (stupid name, but smart dog) is completely sane, affectionate and modest. The rest of them aren't. My uncle spends most of his time talking about things he's bought, and advising me to "keep off drugs, kiddo", "go to Durham, that's where you really want to be", and "buy one of the brilliant pressure cleaners for your patio, they're SO handy." My uncle is the last person I want to take advice from, I might end up failing a degree in Geography, living in horrible middle-class suburbia, and turning into a wanker.

Wow I'm tired. But happy, I actually did some work this holiday, and my Nana gave me some Welsh honey which I shall have on my toast tomorrow (if there's any bread in this hellhole). It's satisfying not to have wasted five whole days.

On the other hand I have killed quite alot of time over the past few days watching trash on TV, including 'Intolerable Cruelty' - fairly amusing garbage consisting of Catherine Zeta-Jones and George Clooney trying to screw money out of each other, various episodes of Desperate Housewives and Hollyoaks, and The Lavender Hill Mob, also ridiculous but entertaining ("by jove Holland, it's a good job we're both honest men" - this had me laughing for far far too long). Also saw Saturday Night And Sunday Morning, which was as good as it's meant to be.