These photographs

Yesterday I finally got my photos back of my holiday in Australia - cost me 35 stinking pounds and they still look like digital prints. Anyway, I'm happy. I need to decide which ones to scan and stick up here, but first I just wanted to show a few of my 'using the film up' pix. They're all taken about the home, and I'm quietly pleased with them.

Today has been a surprisingly good day. By that I mean I woke up wondering what I'm doing even thinking about leaving Capernwray and the special friendships I have here. The thing that brought this panic bubbling to the surface (albeit in my stumbling into the shower stupor) was the thought that today I had made an appointment with Les (my boss) to tell him all the stuff that's been going on in my head about leaving/changing my hours/doing a course/etc. etc. not to mention the fact that I was also seeing Mark (the director) to tell him the same. The art school in Edinburgh had told me that I had to apply and have an interview before the end of March if I want to attend next year, which made everything seem sort of serious and immediate and no longer just a nice idea. I also had my first session with my new student art group which I wasn't prepared for. Then tonight I have the staff boys' bible study, followed by a serious conversation with one of the boys I mentor, then some returning students for a cuppa and in the middle of it all I'm trying to write a blog. But like I said, today has been good, good in the sense of none of my own doing, the panic has drifted away. encouraging. peaceful.