Well, my life has pretty much stagnated recently- being at home with lots of time on one's hands is great initially, but after a while I feel that I'm not getting as much out of life as I could do.

The weather meanwhile has been ridiculously cloudy here; hardly a glimmer of sunshine. There have been a few showers and storms this month, but it has been difficult to see what's going on as there's always been North Sea "haar" in the way.

It makes my blood boil on days when the rest of the country is having sunshine and showers/storms, Cleadon is dry but dull with coastal low cloud and temperatures several degrees lower, and I hear that my area is being very lucky with the weather, because at least it isn't raining. Looks like my birthday on the 22nd could turn out to be one of those days, if the low pressure ends up as far south as the GFS is currently showing.

Have two weeks in France coming up in July, which should be good as I enjoyed my last three summer holidays there. As for the PhD, currently sorting out accommodation; so far things are going okay. Whatever the pros and cons of the Norwich climate, it's bound to be much more interesting than the weather we get up here. And of course, if I'm doing a PhD my life should be a lot busier.