Today is Sister Two's birthday, so we went out for lunch. I spent most of the meal discussing cars and macs with Rich and then came home to set up the Sister's new DVD player and digibox. Despite the easiness with which any modern device can be installed when you bother to look at the instruction manual, within my family I am the only person who is apparently qualified to touch anything with a plug on it (I got an 'A' at A-Level Electronics). It work's now anyway.

On Friday John hosted a BBQ for a few friends, and along with Becky (John's other half), Jonathan (her brother), Kath (a friend from uni) and Tom and Mike we had an incredibly civilised evening of over-dinner discussion. Being the only non-Oxbridge/Imperial student out of this set of friends makes me feel like a rebel, but I really enjoy the discussions we end up in. Where else could you have an hour long debate on the effect of religious fundamentalism or ruminate on the middle eastern crisis? Well, the Oxbridge student unions apparently, but as I miss out on that type of thing at uni it's probably good to have somewhere else to vent your personal opinion on foreign policy (I can't think of anything that backs that up).

As would be expected at any event hosted by John there was Batham's beer, pink gin and cous-cous. At times we could have been part of a Bremner, Bird and Fortune sketch.

Oh, I'm getting to grips with the Adobe Lightbox beta... I really need to get my Japan & Australia photos online...