The Irish Sea // Interview // Trains

Up early, showered and breakfasted in record time. It helps to have a huge canteen downstairs and the smell of bacon and coffee to help you downstairs.

Interview day, and appropriately dressed in hiking boots and muddy jeans. It is a field centre, after all... though I hope they didn't look too closely!

I was in last after the other applicants. It turns out they're going for a different position than I am, as they are coming from next august for a whole year, where as if I was to work I'd be starting soon, and only up until September. Still, nerves: and forgot words and to shake hands, though apart from that, all went as well as I'd hoped. Although, speaking to the current placement students, I may need to think about what the role is actually offering, as they weren't too keen on it, although the grey weather may have been contributing to their apparently grey moods. I might ask some more questions before I give a 'yes', if I was going to be invited to join them...

Another long journey home, and longer for the fact that I only did it yesterday. Nice to have a chance to talk to one of the placement students as she gave me a lift to the local station (not the branch line, again, as the trains still were at awkward times).

Again, lots of podcasts, music, and a bit of iPlayer to get me through. But 3 changes later, a busy train from Bristol Parkway to Temple meads with the catering assistant talking non-stop (and in graphic detail) about how bad her flu and gammy eyes were, and a walk up the hill from Bath Spa and I was just about ready to curl up in a ball and go to sleep. There goes the plan to play badminton with Doug tonight... Sleeeeeeeeeeeeep.