Truly international; last night I had a meeting with one of my research students and got home around 9.30pm, a light supper, shower and early bed to get up at 5.45am for an Australian Skype call this morning, another meeting with a research student and her Australian supervisor. Exhausting but interesting and its great to see ideas forming themselves in projects then the basis for a Doctoral thesis - even if I do sometimes wonder how I got here and being able to do this. But the technology is great. I can supervise someone 10,000 miles away, last night Abbi sent me a funny video of her having a wobbly on court only ten minutes after it happened and earlier I received a card full of water accompanying a box full of water and poems by mail, in conventional paper, hand crafted by Jen Webb. I love how it all rubs together and this week is graduation and the song I wrote with the wonderful Hannah Curtain is being sung in Winchester Cathedral, which was built in 1093, I mean how cool is that, over a thousand years of contemplation and my song will be part of it, traces will be left in the bricks and in the echoes of centuries. I am so blooming tired but one day it will all make sense. But tomorrow night I am going to see this lady:
