Hi all!
Has it been a busy week!
First of all, I had the field school last week at the repat. Now, I originally put my name down for single 3 hour blocks for each day, but it turned out that you could just rock up, so I ended up there nearly all day every day with many photo's to show the progress (I'll put them up eventually). Lost of manual labour went on and much fun was had in mindless destruction of innocent turf and dirt.
Most would find the first few days pretty boring, we just dug deep trenches (really deep, the top was over my head and for a while my lecturer wouldn't let me in the trench... But he relented after a few days of me not backing off, hehe). But on Thursday, we hit paydirt. Actuality concrete. A concrete path sloping down into some gravel... Not really exciting in itself, but when you think that we found it 2 meters down... That is exciting... We'd found the path to the entrance.
Unfortunately we had to finish on Friday, and back fill some of it, but it was a brilliant, exciting (and dirty) week for a budding archaeologist.
even better was the rest of the weekend!

First of all we all trooped to the Goodwood pub on Friday after we backfilled and many pints were had by all. Although our numbers slowly diminished, by 10:30 there were a few of us left, if slightly tipsey. Many of them rocked on, and I would have been one of them, but I had a 21st the next night so I left by that stage (keep in mind we arrived at the pub at 5pm) so that I could get a decent nights sleep and look reasonable for the next night.
Clares do was fantastic. First of all it was formal, so I got to be all dolled up. I love getting dressed up, but there is no real call for it these days, so I jumped at the chance here. Chris and Carl also looked quite dashing in their suits. I have no photos, so you'll have to trust me. Due to some extenuating circumstances, I felt very uneasy when I first arrived and made a steady bee line for the bar for a nice glass of liquid courage (otherwise known as Champaign and raspberry, which became quite popular by the end of the night). It served me well... A little too well in fact as I was very sloshed by the time I got home at 1pm. That is why you shouldn't put champas on a bar tab ladies and gents.. But the night was great. Saw many of clares friends whom I know too, and got to see Jason (her fella) all suited up. He also looked quite dashing. I even got to swap yarns about an ex, who happened to hit on one of clares friends (unfortunately, this friends was old enough to be his mother, so it was quite amusing, and a good job that he couldn't make it, as he was invited too and would have made my state much worse by the end of the night).

The night ended by me passing out fo an hour but Carl looking after me wonderfully. He even hung my coat up, and took my (extremely tricky) shoes off.

After a recovery day Sunday (I needed it) and a relaxing day today... Tomorrow is the NASC!!! I'll keep you posted on all that happens there (at least, I'll try). Till next time!!

Oh, PS. Tim, I've enabled the comment function for you. Enjoy!