Just a brief note to say that, after about seven years, today I received word that my revisions had been approved and I have therefore passed my master’s. Now I know it should have only taken me a year, and I feel bad that it took so long; but I take it as a lesson to myself never to give up – I will get there in the end. Mind you, so much has happened in the last seven years, especially meeting Lyn and moving to London, that accounting for it all would take another forty thousand words: it, like the whole of my life since going to uni in 2004, has been amazing. I count myself as very lucky indeed, not least to have so many great friends, like Lyn, Esther, Charlie, our PAs and my parents, to help and support me. Now, though, enough naval-gazing – time to celebrate!