Feels like I’m living in my car !It’s funny, I grew up in a very countrified place and lots of romantic ideas about how nice and eco friendly it would be to live in a rural area again.
However, now after living in the deepest darkest depths of deepest darkest Kent for six weeks, I have an entirely different point of view ! The majority of things I need for the masters, work and my daughter’s school are in Medway and the Enquiry Unit is at Avery Hill. The upshot of this is that currently I seem to spend a huge amount of time in my car to-ing and fro-ing... I’ve been keeping so many things in my car that it is starting to feel like a second home, and my daughter and I have eaten at least three meals in the car this week. I’m not sure to believe it myself, but in the last seven days I spent over £80 on petrol – so much for my carbon footprint, and I’m supposed to be a climate scientist ! We’ve now got a moving date for the beginning of February to a house on the rural /urban fringe, so hopefully we’ll have the best of both worlds and be able to use public transport occasionally...
The Ashes 3-1 victory :
Do I need to say anything else really ??!! Fabulous, so few England line-ups have proved their mettle by winning the Ashes both at home and away. I am only sorry that I missed most of it by
1) Moving house just as the Ashes started.
2) Getting only four channels on the TV at my rented cottage.
3) Having an incredible academic workload just before Christmas.
I missed so much of this series that it pains me to think of it ! Still, I did experience extreme elation on hearing news of each result. It was lovely to hear Alastair Cook described as a ‘one man record machine’ by the BBC... He has now entered the realms of the legendary, is an extremely nice bloke (have spoken to him once at Lord’s) and as my friend ‘A’ says ‘no one has a right to be that good looking , except Alastair!’
Andrew Strauss is only of three England captains (Len Hutton and Mike Brearley are the other two) to win Ashes series both home and away.
1) Moving house just as the Ashes started.
2) Getting only four channels on the TV at my rented cottage.
3) Having an incredible academic workload just before Christmas.
I missed so much of this series that it pains me to think of it ! Still, I did experience extreme elation on hearing news of each result. It was lovely to hear Alastair Cook described as a ‘one man record machine’ by the BBC... He has now entered the realms of the legendary, is an extremely nice bloke (have spoken to him once at Lord’s) and as my friend ‘A’ says ‘no one has a right to be that good looking , except Alastair!’
Andrew Strauss is only of three England captains (Len Hutton and Mike Brearley are the other two) to win Ashes series both home and away.
J’s Record of the week : 
‘Radio Africa’
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Latin QuarterIf you’ve read the subsequent part of my blog, you’ll know that I’ve been almost living in my car this week, and depending on my iPod as the main source of entertainment. This morning I shuffled my songs list and this was the song that came up. Perfect !
I first remember ‘Radio Africa’ when it was a hit in 1985. It reached number 19 in the UK charts. I was 11 at the time and had a sneaky habit of listening to a radio (which I used to sneakily tuck under my pillow) late into the night... Glad my mum never found out, as I would have been in big trouble ! Jerushah x
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