Seachain an duine a bhíonn ina thost

This finished-my-degree thing is fun.

Today I went to the beach with Spencer and Tom in the morning. Spencer made a picnic, so we ate that, washed down with ginger beer. Lashings of it. It wasn't sunny or warm or anything, but it was a really pleasant walk. Very relaxing. I do like a bracing walk by the sea.

I went home and slept for several hours, then I cooked a lovely big roast for Sam and Spencer. And Robbie and Chris. And Simon ate some chicken too. Sam made a most delicious fruit salad, it was quite wonderful (and he left the leftovers for me!). The whole meal turned out very well: the chicken was spot on (it was a good-sized free range chicken: I rubbed butter over it, squeezed some lemon onto it, stuffed some garlic cloves into the breasts and put lemon and garlic inside) and the vichyed (I'm not sure I can turn that into a verb ..) carrots were scrumptious. Oh, and because it's asparagus season we had some lovely fresh asparagus with a lemony butter sauce. Mmmmmm. I do love sharing meals: today I had Spencer's picnic, Sam's fruit salad and shared my roast with them.

Yesterday was also rather exciting: I went to Chester to see the azoo. I saw the lions but not the kangaroo. There was he-males and she-males of every hue. Up in the zoological gardens. I also bought an awful lot of stuff in Lush. It's just so wonderful. My room smells marvellous. I got Mum the bath ballistics she wanted (isn't it nice to see my family leaving nice comments for me?), and I went to the cheese shop to get lots of Cheshire cheese for Dad.

Tomorrow it's off to Carmarthen (if that's how it's spelt) for an NUS Wales thingamy telling us about the new NUS Extra card. We nearly didn't make it because poor Rob (who was going to drive us) has had to have his appendix taken out (get well soon Rob). But Steve's going to take us instead. I do love days out.

Right, it's time to do more sleeping. Up at the crack of dawn tomorrow to set off on our grand adventure, and as soon as we get back I'll have to get scrubbed up to go to the societies awards.