After my second trip to Sheffield at the beginning of the week, I found myself in Aberystwyth this weekend, and look set to be in Loughborough midweek.

Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday were pretty heavyweight affairs but I think everyone at Rattle was more than pleased with the result (me included). There’s nothing that can’t be fixed up with a craft knife, a roll of masking tape and a power drill (though I get the impression my ‘safety socks’ wouldn’t normally pass as workshop gear. They aren’t steel toe-capped or anything.

While up there I spent one evening trying to locate Tongy’s new flat. He’s been commuting to Barnsley from Loughborough everyday for the past few months and finally decided to get a place a little closer to work as a two-to-four hour commute twice a day is a little on the nasty side of sadistic. Apart from the issues with a lack of postcode (the place is brand spanking new) and most of the roads now part of a fantastic one way system (turns out no one had informed the GPS) we managed to catch up for an hour or so.

Being Sister One’s twenty first this week, I took the train out to Welsh Wales on Saturday and spent a festive night out in Aberystwyth town Despite being three years into her course, this is the first time I’ve managed to make it over there, but it was a good night and very, very cheap. Raj showed his face as well and I sampled the local speciality drink, an ‘Admiral’ which was more pleasant than I had been expecting.

I seem to remember there were quite a lot of hot looking elfish girls wandering around too; always a bonus.