We’ve now moved in to our new place in Hudderfield, where we’ll be staying until we both finish our stints in University: me finishing up my Computing Science degree here in Hudds, and Jess doing a Masters in Politics at York. The house is really nice, with plenty of spacious rooms—we had to get a 5 bedroom house because there are 5 of us, despite there being two couples, so one room has been converted to a computer room, and the other is being coverted to a lounge / guest room.

The University went through quite a few changes last year, and we’re starting to feel the effects of this now. Our School of Computing and Mathematics has merged with the School of Engineering, to become the School of Computing and, surprise surprise, Engineering. In addition to this, many members of staff have left for a variety of reasons (not one sacked, I think), including the university’s scheduling person: that means we still don’t have any idea what time all our lectures are or anything…and we’re starting on Monday!

I’ve already managed to get into this year’s first caving trip, which is just a freshers’ trip to Longchurn (a nice easy horizontal cave) so should get me back into the swing of things. Lovely! On a sourer note, I need to buy a new battery for my lamp since it leaked last year while we were away…

Anyway, I have to get downstairs to move a few sofas from the garage into our lounge…