This morning I got up in London, and by 11 am was breezing off the train, strolling across the road and into my first lecture of the day back here in Cardiff. Isn’t our transport system wonderful?

I went across to London for the weekend to see some very wonderful and lovely people from Contagious – Luke Williams, Steve Sims, Stephen Kinnard, Sarah Field, Sarah Grimm, Alicia and Susanne, and I had a really great time with them all. A very special thank you to Sarah Field and family for letting me stay overnight Saturday and Sunday! Sarah makes very delicious chocolate cookies, by the way. Luke was even more eccentrically dressed than ever (though it emerged that while he likes being eccentric, he is sadly not fond of being silly). Stephen looked like he was on the path to greatness in this card game we played. Steve became irate at the excessive numbers of Bridget Jones adverts on the sides of buses. Sarah Grimm disappeared on Saturday afternoon with her uncannily similar looking sister. Alicia got her mum a Mother’s Day present from Harrods, and Susanne and Stephen spent all afternoon on Sunday in a restauraunt having a dinner due to the mad rush of people taking their mums out for a meal.

On the way, I left Cardiff Central at around 8am on the two hour journey to London. Unfortunately, what should have been the last twenty-five minutes of the journey from just after Reading into London Paddington took at least three times that, so I arrived almost an hour late. Isn’t our transport system annoying?

Anyway, I’ll talk more of our adventures when I get time, and tell of how we deduced the existence of the secret pool tables that women’s toilets must contain and unravelled the conspiracy of mermaids planning to take over the world using Starbucks. Plus we chatted loads, so I’m sure I’ll find stuff to say on other worlds, The Da Vinci Code and Conservative politics sometime soon!