I didn’t actually go anywhere really, but over the past fortnight, I’ve had two colds followed by food poisoning, with a side order of essay and conference organising induced stress. Probably all interconnected (except the food poisoning, that was just bad luck), but it explains why I haven’t carried on with my new years resolution to blog more.

But I’m well again, and getting back on track with lectures and other stuff, so blogging and my attempts to learn Dutch will be resumed, along with a couple of late entry resolutions to eat more healthy food, and get more exercise. They’re such basic resolutions that most people just have them by default, but the last two weeks have proven their usefulness to me.

Who’d have though organising a little thing like an international political youth conference with no budget would be difficult! This has been the dominant activity of the past week. To be honest, while it is hard work, it’s also quite a lot of fun. I wouldn’t do it otherwise. Anyway, next weekend I’ll be welcoming young greens to Edinburgh to take part in the third Inter Isles Young Greens ‘get-together’ (yes, I do insist on using ‘get-together’ in place of conference).

The coming week will be doubly hectic. On top of the get-together, I have a couple of essays due on the 14th and 20th, and a postgraduate study application due on the 23rd. Hopefully I won’t burn out before everything is done. Anyway, today has been my last full day in Edinburgh. Tomorrow I’m driving down to Manc. to get stuck into a to-do list almost as long as my scarf.

I’ve been very much enjoying my Christmas holidays here in Edinburgh, and it just struck me that I only have one week left before I have to go back to Manchester and start Term 2 of uni. The problem with holidays is that they always come to an end, and I’m never quite ready to leave Edinburgh and return to Manc. Anyway, I’m going to have to start the studying tomorrow. Annoyingly, I have an essay on the Spanish Civil War due in the first week back, and another on the EU which I need to get done before the 20th, so it’s the library for me for most of the rest of the week. None of this is helped by the fact that I’m trying to co-ordinate an Inter Isles Young Greens ‘get-together’ back here in Edinburgh just one week into term. ‘Get-together’ gives the impression that its a nice little informal thing which practically organises itself. It is far from that.

Anyway, I’m continuing to execute my resolution to blog more this year, even if it is just little random moans like this post has been. Lets see how it keeps up next week.

Well, I’m slightly late with this post, it being the 3rd and all. I’ve been busy attempting to fulfil my New Years Resolutions. Some are proving a little tricky (getting up earlier and that sort of thing), but my resolution to blog more seems to be holding up. You probably won’t notice it, but I’ve made a few changes to this blog already, with the removal of all the last remaining dregs of my old site, and a tweak to the theme to produce a wider page. I also tidied up the ‘page’ template and brought the theme for my mini blog (mini.tredford01.co.uk) into line with this one.

My other resolutions range from the long term and just about realisable – such as getting a place to study at Oxford when I graduate from MMU – to the slightly odd desire to learn Dutch and go back to Sofia (yes, I know Dutch isn’t spoken in Bulgaria, they’re separate resolutions).

Anyway, so far, I seem to be doing better with my resolutions than last year, so I guess we’ll see if I’m successful, by my ability to write next year’s end/start of year post in Nederlands.