Well...Im about out of money. No luck finding a job yet and with no income coming in, feeding myself is going to be interesting to say the least. Though, I have to say, Im quite looking forward to it. There must be a way of eating in a big city without spending money. So Ill find it.
My studies are going very well. Have to write a few essays. One on Henry VII which Im enjoying because hes my favourite Tudor monarch as hes intelligent, mostly Welsh, devious and above all successful. The other is on Kaiser Wilhelm II which Im enjoying because...if I can be honest...the man was a thug. Its hard to imagine a more crude and brutish creature as a head of state in the Twentieth Century.
I also have two projects Im investigating off my own back as well. Mary Kelly...she is bugging the shit out of me. There is something very wrong with Jack the Rippers last victim. I mean nothing, and I mean nothing, can be proved about her. His other victims, you can reconstruct their lives pretty well. Mary Kelly is all hearsay. She was Irish apparently, move to Wales, lived in Cardiff (and maybe married) and spoke Welsh, moved to London, moved to France where she was kept in a brothel and forced to work, escaped, moved back to London (possibly with a child) moved in with Joe Barnett (about the only thing we have some evidence for) and was (maybe) killed by Jack the Ripper. All by the age of 25, and all without any real documentary evidence that she did any of this. Argh! As I said, she really bugs me. The other is the history of Fascism in Britain. Which I am finding more disturbing than tracking down the life of a Jack the Ripper victim. And its taking me onto some very nasty websites. But it does beat working in a bank.
The next two weekends Im in London. The first is on business to check out the archives in the British Library and to try to con Scotland Yard to let me look and the official Ripper case notes. The second is all about pleasure though. Pendulum, Torture Garden and a lot of drinks and *ahem* adult stuff. Good Times.
So that is me at the moment.
My studies are going very well. Have to write a few essays. One on Henry VII which Im enjoying because hes my favourite Tudor monarch as hes intelligent, mostly Welsh, devious and above all successful. The other is on Kaiser Wilhelm II which Im enjoying because...if I can be honest...the man was a thug. Its hard to imagine a more crude and brutish creature as a head of state in the Twentieth Century.
I also have two projects Im investigating off my own back as well. Mary Kelly...she is bugging the shit out of me. There is something very wrong with Jack the Rippers last victim. I mean nothing, and I mean nothing, can be proved about her. His other victims, you can reconstruct their lives pretty well. Mary Kelly is all hearsay. She was Irish apparently, move to Wales, lived in Cardiff (and maybe married) and spoke Welsh, moved to London, moved to France where she was kept in a brothel and forced to work, escaped, moved back to London (possibly with a child) moved in with Joe Barnett (about the only thing we have some evidence for) and was (maybe) killed by Jack the Ripper. All by the age of 25, and all without any real documentary evidence that she did any of this. Argh! As I said, she really bugs me. The other is the history of Fascism in Britain. Which I am finding more disturbing than tracking down the life of a Jack the Ripper victim. And its taking me onto some very nasty websites. But it does beat working in a bank.
The next two weekends Im in London. The first is on business to check out the archives in the British Library and to try to con Scotland Yard to let me look and the official Ripper case notes. The second is all about pleasure though. Pendulum, Torture Garden and a lot of drinks and *ahem* adult stuff. Good Times.
So that is me at the moment.
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Let me know when that oxford trip is and i`ll make sure im about