Thanks to CD And DVD Bargains I got an email last week alerting me to the fact that Amazon had listed the 7-disc Nightmare on Elm St DVD set for just £6.97. Shortly after snapping up said title they changed their misprinted price to £16.97, but they’re honouring the orders anyway. Lovely!

In unrelated news, an old friend from my schooldays is visiting London in October to perform at the Royal Albert Hall as part of a championship brass band ensemble. How posh! We then remarked how Carmarthen (one of our local towns) seems stuck in a time warp, as those who didn’t move away haven’t moved on. So true.

Yesterday I met a friend from my first year of halls at lunch. She divulged in some quite explicit detail her recent bout of food poisoning, and the drunken toilet habits of her former flatmate. I was glad I wasn’t eating at the time; my lunch - much like the most shocking part of the anecdote - was liquid.

Today I met Henry briefly to shock him with my £3k win and to ask how St. Paddy’s day went. I had bailed on going out with him and some old friends that evening thanks to my tardiness in leaving the event at King’s College.

Said event (a National Science Week event to promote medical physics at university level) was so-so. It was a bit mismanaged and my ineptitude at public speaking was apparent. But I did meet a Nobel prize winner and in terms of making me look good it did the trick.

My Missus (who is a King’s student) was hanging around all day to score brownie points from her tutor for looking like an enthusiastic student, along with poaching the free food on offer and swooning over me in my suit like a ravenous schoolgirl.

Yeah, it was terrible.

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