A Journeys End.

The past three weeks or so have been truely mad! My travels to visit our very own burbage, were great fun and a very relaxing few days (see her blog for detail - she writes so much better than I do!) We visited London, Eastbourne and Bath and went rowing, shopping and spent a day on a beach.
After my 10 days with helen I went down to cornwall on the train to join my family on the Lizard, in a lush place called heford! (i mentioned it in my last post) here are a few pics of the beautiful place..




After, me and my younger brother Rhys were travelling up to Wales (Newport first, then on upto the North) for camp, which I told u about I think in my last post.
Camp was awesome fun, and such a spirtual encouragment. The kids were all great to be around, even the "difficult" ones. I forgot sometimes that I was actually an officer and my cousin (who was leading the camp) joked once that I was having as much, if not more, fun than the campers - which is probably true as I didnt have to obey anyone or get to bed by any specific time! the whole week was great fun and I'll definatly be doing it again, hopefully with the same team!

Now I'm back and I have to find myself new employment as the old Manager of Caffe Nero has left and the new one (according to my friend) is not at all nice to work for (to paraphrase!)
So it has been CVs and Applications all the way for me the last few days, and im getting quite bored with no employment so I have started on my project (the thing I did the 3 weeks of digging for) and I am planning on another week of archaeologising next week (if a job doesnt crop up first) to keep me busy...thats how bored I am!

I found out yesterday (I wrote all of the above a few days ago) that a good friend of mine was found dead two months ago in his flat. He had been dead around three weeks before he was found and the circumstances are thought to be suspisious. This was a massive shock for me, as u can imagine, as the last I had heard he was off to Italy and then to Southampton Uni. How I didnt know about this sooner has been the worst thing. My friend matt said he had tried to get hold of me in everyway possible but didnt have my number, and as Petes mobile is still missing he couldnt get it there! As this had been the first I had seen of him since getting back from Uni he could finally tell me.
I missed the funeral and inquest and everything, the inquest has been postponed untill further investigations can be made.
He was only 22, not a christian and having to read about the circumstances on the internet (arhives of the papers) just made it all worse. I cant stop myself imagining te circumstance, or asking how and why? he was such a great guy, always loving and friendly so why?

I dont know why I'm telling you all this but its just something that has been on my mind constantly since yesterday, i couldnt sleep and I needed to splurge my thoughts somewhere! So anyway...thanks for listening!
I love u all, take care guys
xxx Ffi xxx