Its been a long day. It was going well until four, when my last seminar finished. I have my lessons in Crewe on Monday, and get a taxi to Crewe in the morning and the mmu bus back to alsager. However, the public transport busses are currently on strike, so the university busses have their work cut out ferrying students between campuses. And guess who was forgotten in this hubbub?

We – that is, myself and Esther – must have waited half an hour in the cold. I was starting to shiver, so we went back to the canteen, where est said I should have a warm drink. We waited until five, when we ‘phoned Bill. Quite what I would have done without bill tonight I do not know: he was there in twenty minutes, saying that he’d asked the kitchen to save me some dinner and was lamb Rogan josh ok? It was, and by six I was tucking into it with a huge slab of crusty, fresh, delicious bread. I could really hug bill – never was I so pleased to see his jeep!