Alot can happpen in 24 hours, more in three weeks.

Haven’t posted for a while so I think I’ll put some of what’s been happening up.
Let’s see, I was down in St Mawgam for a while with work, which was mainly great although having the exhaust fall off my car wasn’t so good. Sounded great but is a touch illegal. Back up via mum and dads, picked up some stuff and then to Scampton to sign the Reserve Forces Agreement, followed by the MMU annual dinner.
Driving back north the next day on the east coast (I prefer the west) and stopped over with T and C (not really sure why I'm not using their names, think it's to give myself "blog-cred").
When I got back up north, started to get settled into the new flat/bungalow, still had only one chair, an airbed and the beer fridge that mum and dad got me for uni. On the weekend T and C came up to visit, bringing bookshelves, storage boxes and (God bless them) a new single mattress! We went snowboarding on the Sunday on what can only be described as frozen concrete and towards the end I got the turns back. C goes boarding lots. Mainly at his local dry slope and once I get my finances sorted I think I’ll do something similar.
On the following Monday Si, who started his met training the same time as I did but spent a year observing (wish I had, would have REALLY helped) went to the bombing range at Tain. That was cool, watching the bombers come in and drop their little 7 kg practice bombs, practice strafing and loft bombing. Got a good feel for the physical layout of the range, which is good because we forecast for it. One of the things I hadn’t thought of was that the range is VERY low lying so storm surges can be a problem. It also cut short our visit as the tide was coming in and we had to leave or we’d be stuck there for another 4 hours or so. As it was we ended up driving through about 6-9 inches of water running at about 8-10 knots. If you’ve never felt that, it’s a strong current. We could feel the car being moved by the water. The road we were on had markers every six feet or so that I’d thought were just for snow but I soon realised that they were all that was keeping us on the right path. Like I said, fun.
And on the Tuesday I drove down to Leuchars, where I’d done some of my early training as an observer. Now I was here to learn the forecasting ropes ready to cover a few shifts for them. On the weekend I was over at T and C’s again, this time we went off to Stirling for a night out with the engineers, Nolan, Lisa, Sherl, Piotr, Stuart and the rest. Very messy, very fun. Needed it after the horrific performance by the England rugby team.
And that pretty much brings me up to date, the advanced driving thing at student rooms seems to be going well, lots of people reading it and a few commenting or asking questions. It’s here, and I’ll be adding to it tonight hopefully.

I was wrong

No matter how you look at it, 700 miles (well, 735 but who's counting) is a long way to drive. I had to stop just by the boarder to have a bit of a kip as I'd moved into the flat on Friday. Which meant I didn't get out of Lossie until almost 4 in the afternoon. I got to my parent's at just around 1. In the morning.
Looking at it, England isn't that big a country really. You're never more than 100 miles away from beautiful countryside and the transport infrastructure is good, if sometimes slow and unreliable, and if using the trains, expensive.
Well, the sun's out in Newquay, a little later than I'd thought it would be. Okay, 9 hours later than I thought it would be but that's not that bad...
No seriously, the front stalled, I'm not making excuses.
Been writing an advanced driving thingy over at the student room, if it doesn't get deleted I'll post a link to it. (hint, it's in the "motoring" section under a title of "advanced driving")