It's been a while...

Apologies for the delay; the uni work is quite full-on at the moment.
So - New Year's Eve. Lisa and I went up to Edinburgh to join Holly and Chris for Hogmanay. We got tickets for the street party in Princes Street. We saw Salsa Celtica, an amazing mix of , well, salsa and celtic music. It did my head in a bit to hear small pipes and fiddle playing MacArthur Road with maracas and bongos underlaying the salsa beat! I couldn't merge them in my head.
At midnight we watched the fireworks over Edinburgh Castle. WOW! very pretty. But there were SO MANY PEOPLE. It was a bit scarey, because we couldn't move, and being somewhat on the short side, I felt very overwhelmed by all the people. Lisa took photos, so when we've worked out how to get them onto my computer I'll post them.
And on the topic of photos, thanks Wilhelmina for the great photo of Sunas. What a star is Bridget?! Looks like Woodford was pretty muddy. Good to get the rain though.
I've been working really hard as it's the 1st semester assessment at the moment. I did a presentation last week that went quite well. Matthew, you would have been proud of my technological advancement! I worked out how to use Powerpoint (even embedding music tracks and hyperlinks to websites, and having text fly and fade and coloured circles appearing on examples in the score!!!!!), AND problem solved all the tech issues on the day. Big pat on the back. As I'm sure you can all imagine, I had loads of information but kept to time by being (surprise) very organised with a script. I also had 2 extra versions just in case of tech failures. And once I remembered that Powerpoint does not yet read minds, I even got the slides working in sync!
I followed that with a tutorial (meeting) about the literature review due in March. (It's sneaking up on us you know.)
This week I have another presentation to give on the progress of my dissertation. And then the 5000 word essay is due the week after. Then it's Semester 2. That's halfway I guess.
Lisa , Maeva and I went to see the final night of A Christmas Carol. It was a very good production. We all enjoyed it, although Maeva did have a little doze. She arrived today from Canada and was somewhat jetlagged.
Better get back to the presentation preparation... (Next time there'll be photos I promise.)
PS Davydd's tune is great!