Well, that was an eventful weekend. Hopefully it will pass into legend among the rest of the school, just like last year’s ‘a little too much drink’ incident. The gossip I know you want is that 2 people got sent home on Friday for smoking*, and 2 more were dispatched on Saturday for the same offence! Honestly – surrounded by a dense forest and you still managed to get caught.
Other highlights include the late-night corn field experience, which I’m geekily proud to have brought to you *live*, as it were! We got back around 1am and by 3 I was nice and snug in bed… until the fire alarm went off (guess why) and I had to drag myself out again.
Talking of sleeping arrangements – I found myself in the ultra-l33t room in the girl’s building. While the rest of the males were slumming it in the dorms (sorry guys) us lucky six were enjoying accommodation complete with a direct door to the neighbouring inhabitants and another fire escape for quick exit at the back. It’s not hard to see why I only got 2-3 hours sleep the first night!
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I’m currently in the middle of a corn field on a night trek. We’re slightly lost!
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I forgot to mention earlier, cause with all the Sixth Form stuff and homework swirling around my mind I kinda forgot as well, but I’m spending the weekend on the Sixth Form Residential at the Gordon Brown Centre. Back on Sunday. Cya!
Is Gordon Brown a mirage in the desert? The more I hear of him the more anxious I get that it’ll all go horribly wrong.
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When writing this week’s (late!) DomSez, I considered doing something about petrol. The fact is, however, that there isn’t a lot to say. If there’s high demand, and low supply, the price will be high. Just like anything else. It may be ‘ridiculous’ to you that you have to pay £1 a litre, or whatever, but that’s the price the market will reach.
“But what about petrol duty?”
Yes – of course that’s true. But the underlying problem is that the cost of oil is rising because we’re going to run out of oil. And there’s nothing anyone can do about that in the long term. Apart from maybe buying a bicycle. We’ve got it easy at the moment, the government can reduce duty as a temporary reprieve. See you in 30 years…
(Oh, and hoarding petrol is, of course, counter productive. But if anyone is hoarding a perpetual motion generator, that’d be very nice to have.)
Edit – does road charging, instead of fuel duty, look so stupid now?
Helen on It’s (waiting) time.: “Fabulous news, congratulations to you both! X” Jun 8, 21:51
