Actually, boring "General Professional Studies" lectures and seminars aside, I'm feeling remarkably cheerful and fulfilled. This is usually unheard of for me when Winter is fast approaching, and especially so now, when I have to get up at 6.45am while it's still as dark as midnight.

On a totally unrelated topic, I have to confess that I am already addicted to Strictly Come Dancing, again. My comic attempts at jiving are driving Ian round the bend . . . My money's on Mark Ramprakash, though that's subject to change.