[mayday]

After the hectic reference writing for Steve and all that thesis submitting malarkey, we then had to house-hunt as his post-doc (yay!) means he'll need a base closer to Egham (boo!). Pity, but Leicester isn't really within commuting distance. That means I'll be partly up here and partly down there. Anyhoo, during all that flat hunting over the past 4 days we managed to take in some Mayday celebrations. Mum has been (hrm, what's the word...no, not nagging....suggesting?) that I attend the Oxford singing at dawn for about 6 years (basically since I moved to England) but all that house-hunting in the South meant we couldn't fit that in. What we did see though, were great Maypole dances in Hamsphire and Surrey. We also enjoyed some lovely farmer's market porchetta-style (for those Italians out there) pannini. Yum! We even managed to find an absolutely gorgeous place down there so all's well that ends well...now, just to figure out the base in Leicester...