So, what was I saying?

Hello dear readers

I realise that it has been a rather long time since I last blogged, and perhaps some of you have been wondering what has happened to me?

Well, wonder no longer. It is now trinity term in Oxford and my prelims are in about 5 weeks (for those of you who are not Oxford undergraduates, prelims are the exams I have to pass in order to move on to the second year, otherwise it's off to a new university for me). Term has been going well so far, working hard during the week and then toddling off down to London to see Richard each weekend (not that you'd know it from the amount I appear in his blog). It's been very nearly a year (11 days and counting) since we met on that fateful evening at Jess's house. For those of you that are interested, it is described here.

This anniversary has, of course, sent me into a state of nostalgia and so I've spent the morning rereading Richard's blogs from last May. They're brilliant! Full of veiled references to me, such as "met 2 people, 1 of whom scares me intensely, and the other was refered to earlier as 'i've just realised how long it took me to get to the point' " (just in case you're wondering, I was the non-scary one in that sentence). I went out to this Chinese restaurant yesterday and spent the entire meal recounting the story of how Richard and I started going out but, luckily for you guys, that nostalgised me out so much that I'm not going to do it again and instead I'm going to tell you about the Chinese restaurant.

Now, hopefully you all know I am a vegetarian and, I have to say, sometimes I do miss meat. I like meat, I find it a pleasant meal, and it saddens me that it is produced by such a cruel process that it means I can't eat it, but last night I found something amazing. It was.... wait for it.....

VEGETARIAN SOYA MEAT THAT TASTES LIKE MEAT!!!!!!!!!

Believe me vegetarians, this is no tofu, this is no bean curd, it's so much better than Quorn. It tastes like meat, it has the texture of meat, the carnivore I was with said it was excellent and almost exactly like real meat! Did you hear that? A carnivore said it tasted like meat!!!!

Helen will be coming up with Mum and Steph soon, but any other vegetarians who want to taste meat again (seriously, I had a vegetarian aromatic crispy duck with pancakes and it was so good I nearly cried. I had to get my friendly carnivore to try my vegetarian chicken noodles for me just to make sure it wasn't real meat that they'd given me by mistake!) e-mail me! leave comments! Come to Oxford and I will take you to this place! No more will we have to eat mashed potato with added peas and sweetcorn in the shape of a sausage and have to pretend that it is anything other than degoutant! (aren't you proud Sophie! I used French!)

I will post again soon, but for now readers, au revoir (and again Sophie! twice!)