Making hay (or taking pictures) while the sun shines!

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Well if you blinked you missed it! Sunshine was a scarce and precious commodity this weekend, whether you were in the South of France as I was, or the South of England. It might as well have been Scotland as far as I concerned! The wind was certainly as fierce and the rain just as innovative.. i.e. you never knew from which angle it would attack you next! So I made the best of Saturday afternoon (before the drenching began!) to take some pictures of Michael's lovely garden in Ceret. As you can see, the lavender at least is thriving thanks to the weather..

Now I'm back in the UK, starting to put together plans for my upcoming trip to the US. Exams are over so I also have time at last to start planning for the next hurdle, which will be to pass my Biochemistry resit at the end of the summer. Let the struggle begin! M xx

Another Wiltshire scene..

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Well, after another lovely weekend visiting Granny (where Mum rushed around cooking and looking after us all while I hunched over my textbooks trying to absorb zillions of details about symptoms and their significance!), exam week has finally started. I had the written exam for Clinical Diagnosis yesterday and I have the practical component on Thurs with the written Pathology exam on Friday. I then dash straight to Stansted airport for another weekend jaunt in Ceret - hurray!

PS The gig was amazing, though we will probably find out when we get our DVD that we were less perfect than we felt, but hey! No one could have taken the smiles off our faces that night - we rocked - end of story! :)

Life is just a bowl of cherries

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It's cherry season down in Ceret and I got through more than my fair share last weekend as I was blitzing through my Pathology assignment :) Now that's all behind me, I am looking at a week of intense revision before my exams kick off on 19th.. Oh and my merry band of bankers actually has its first gig next Thursday, a charity benefit concert at Cafe de Paris, London. Should be fun! I am singing 'One'. Enjoy the sunshine! M xx