The wanderer returns

For those who don’t know, I am coming back to Cambridge in a week or so to undertake an MPhil in Medieval and Renaissance Literature. I have also just heard (well, last Friday, in actual fact) that a college fund has decided to give me full funding, covering my fees and a living allowance. I had heard earlier that I had some funding, but would have had a shortfall to make up somehow. I would very much like to thank the managers of the Levy-Plumb fund for their generosity, since their award was much larger than I expected. I hope it will not seem overly pious to record that the letter came two days after I asked my mum’s church homegroup to pray that I would get more funding. They prayed on the evening of Wednesday 7th September; the letter was dated Thursday 8th and arrived on the morning of Friday 9th. You may regard that as entirely coincidental if you so wish.

I will be living in a basement flat with bedroom, bathroom, kitchen and living room, which sounds like more space than I’ve ever had before (though my bedroom at home is pretty spacious (though I did have to wait 15 years to ‘inherit’ it from successive siblings who moved out to get married)). This year is going to be great!