it had to happen one day...

Dear folks,
I am starting this blog in a desperate attempt to avoid revision and outblog my old friend who goes by the name of Fudgebumpkin in these parts. Also, no-one wants to know about my shopping dilemmas and I need to vent. Also if someone could kindly comment and tell me that I waste too much time and money, and need to get on with my degree that would be useful.

Just realised today that I have to pass my exams (ok, a given) and organise getting a job in London more importantly, a complicated and delicate procedure for an ignorant Mancunian medic who got by for 3 and a half years without picking up a book outside of the exams-coming-up! red zone. ER is quite a useful revision tool, I tell myself. For example, in the last episode I learned about what to do when a marine biologist is bitten by a shark. I'll see if i can work that in during an interview.

Hajj begins tomorrow, so Mr C is off to Mina tonight. Apparently although everyone wears two white sheets and women wear simple clothes as well, everyone has colour coded wristbands to identify which country they're from, and some tour groups have hijabs with the name of the group printed on to identify them! Pilgrim chic. Hope it goes well and that Allah blesses the pilgrims this year and accepts their pilgrimage.