h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

It turns out I do have time for one more entry before Christmas. I’m writing this from my parents’ house in West Bromwich. I got here yesterday afternoon after an epic journey from Bath carrying my big rucksack and two equally massive holdalls. I don’t know how much it all weighed, but it must have been quite a lot and I was pretty exhausted when I got here.

But a cup of tea and some dinner soon revived me and I spent yesterday evening down the pub drinking Guinness with an old friend of mine. Then today my brother and his girlfriend and two sons came over to visit and we all went to see my grandparents together. It’s been really great catching up with the people over the last couple of days. I don’t see my family often enough so it was nice to see my grandparents and my nephews both seem to have grown up so much since I last saw them. I hope that being in the area for the next couple of months means that I’ll be able to see a bit more of them.

Tomorrow it’s just going to be my parents and I expect It’s going to be pretty quiet as Christmas goes. But I’m quite looking forward to a relaxing time for a couple of days because I have to get a train back to Bath on the 27th December to meet my girlfriend and bring a carload of my things back here. We’re planning on spending New Year with my parents and then spending the first couple of days of 2006 together before she drives back to Bath. And then it’ll be time for me to get my head down and get on with writing up my PhD.