Ah, now you see I have actually been quite busy...

Erm - seriously... I've had to read stuff and prepare stuff and well, I'll be honest, I've not been at all bothered about doing anything at the moment.

I went home over last weekend which was excellent but now feels like ages away because it's nearly Friday already!

The two feedback sessions have put me in a weird mixed frame of mind. I failed opinion writing which I half expected and that has depressed me a lot. I got a High Competent on civil advocacy which is good, but not really good enough - I wanted a Very Competent... but I have to keep telling myself that it's only just over two months since I started the course.

However, opinion writing for real is approaching fast - the assessed one will be handed out before Christmas and is due in mid-January. Not fun. Especially if I can't learn how to do it - and fast!

All in all I'm not terribly happy with the course as a whole. I'm pretty sure I could have done far more constructive things with that £12,ooo not to mention the accommodation fees and beer money which is also rapidly going the way of the dodo. But of course if I do make it then it will all seem worthwhile. It's just that the light at the end of the tunnel looks more and more like an Ikea tealight than the 1500 watt halogen I'd hoped for...