The cat is still alive!

Man, housesitting is awesome. As much as I love living at home, there's definetly something to be said for independence. Going to Morrisons and wandering round the shop with my trolley thinking 'what do I need to survive?' (answer: orange juice, yoghurt, milk and chicken drumsticks, with the odd bit of salad thrown in.) Apart from sometimes forgetting to look after the cat properly, I'm doing a pretty good job! I've managed to eat almost every day, I've remembered to do my washing so I haven't run out of clothes, I've been washing the dishes...well the dishwasher has...but still, I've remembered to do them! I'm quite enjoying myself.

I stayed up till about 3am last night, watching my new favourite propgramme Lost, this very bizarre film called Empire Records, then (slightly sad, I know) watching the cast commentary for Lord of the Rings. Great fun. Shame we had no beer in the house, that would have topped it all off nicely.

I had a marvelous day in Scotland yesterday, visiting my newly married friends Helen and Michael who live on a campsite. Not in a tent - that would get cold! Micahel's parents own the campsite, Michael runs it. It is quite handy to have your friends house labelled on the national map and from the motorway - makes for easy finding! We got a tour of the campsite, then walked to the tiny village shop to discover they dont sell charcoal, so drove the 20 minute drive to the nearest town where we did find charcoal (and marshmallows...can you guess what we had for tea?) Ofcourse, as it does most of the time when we have a barbeque, it rained during the cooking of so the men were huddled around the BBQ with their jackets and umbrellas. Unfortunatly because it was a few hours drive home, we missed the bonfire, which was an old stattic caravan they were gonna burn - how fab would that have been?!? Huge! But we did get lovely BBQ food, marshmallows, guateaux and guinness with a gorgeous view of some gorgeous mountains - can it get much better than that?!?

So, its only 7 weeks till I leave for Colombia. Still no visa, gonna go down to London in 2 weeks with my Dad, then stay on for a few days and visit my friend, come home and apply to uni! Thats what I need to do this afternoon, is look on the UCAS website, find websites of unis and see when they can have me for a visit before I depart from the UK. So I guess I better be off!