When Liz started teaching, she remarked to me one day that her groups at one place were really keen but that they had said to her 'Just wait until August'. Well now we can see what they mean.

The last two weeks were the winter holidays here in BA and the attendance at some of the classes has dropped off a little. These are the classes in the morning, the ones that start at 8am. I think that BA is time shifted compared to London. I mean, in London, at 6am there's a fair amount of business, people are heading to work early and so forth... here it feels like that at 8. When we're out in the evening and we say we have to leave early because we have to work in the morning sometimes people say 'so? So do I.' and it's only when they say that what they mean is they have to be at work at 10 that we figure it out.

So you start work at 10, an hour and a half for lunch (in a cafe/bar/restaurant), finish work at 6 or 7. Dinner at 9 or 10, in bed by 1am. Easy. And this is why the peak TV programs start at 10 not 7.

It would be easier to get used to if we didn't have to start at 8... because we don't really have the option of cancelling just because we don't want to get up. I'm not whining, I like walking through the city early in the morning.

The picture by the way, is a cupola (cúpula) opposite one of the institutes where I work. There are hundreds all over the city centre.  ¶ 8:44 PM