Today, I have had my faith in people restored (Not that it had ever really gone, being an eternal optimist and romantic and all). I was (once again) locked out of my house and attempting to break in when two people from across the road came over to check I was ok. They ended up taking me back to theirs for tea and chats for quite a while until someone was available to let me back in. How lovely. So many people went past while I was frantically trying to get in and just laughed or ignored me. I think I shall take them some flowers later.

Random acts of kindness really make my day. Even someone smiling or saying hi in the street works. An elderly gentleman tipped his hat at me the other day, that was enough to make me happy for weeks really. I strongly encourage other people to do the same (not the hat thing, more the just being nice)

In other news, in Ilkeston yesterday I got a huge amount of lovely wool for very cheap from the market and am now deciding what it will be made into after my dissertation is handed in. I still don't have much of a sense of panic about that, but it IS getting somewhere. I also got Terry Pratchett books for cheap, a long pink silk dress that I'm going to take up for 50p(!) and some green high heels that are very, very hot. When I have free time again, I'm fully intending to use this blog to document my sewing/knitting adventures. Aren't you all lucky.
Also, a slightly hillarious book called 'The Case for Creationism' (proof there is a God for a whole 30p) which basically says life is too complex for there not to be a creator, and provides reasons for the earth not being as old as science says it is. It's also slagging off scientific methods it clearly doesn't quite get, and any book which is claiming to be scientific and then cites Genesis as a reference has some faults, in my eyes. Anyway, it's a present for Alex so we'll see what he makes of it. I've only scanned it so far.
I feel I should also add I am actually a Christian...but a scientist as well.
And onwards with the proteasome!