That's it for my Christmas holiday this year. Home for 21 days, 9 of which were spent working at the Council to give me some much wanted cash for the term ahead; easy money for easy work, can't ask for more from a holiday job.

Busy schedule ahead as far as my course is concerned: I'm giving a presentation on gamma ray spectroscopy next week; the week after I have to give in a paper on an experiment of my choice from this term; then three exams in three days starting on the...