I am now into my last week living in Manchester which is a very strange feeling. I have known for just over 8 weeks that I would be moving back to Coventry, however it has come round very quickly.

The apartment has slowly emptied of my stuff over the past couple of weeks and my bedroom in particular is starting to look very bare! I’m planning to move the rest of my stuff back to Coventry on Friday which means I only have four days to get everything done at work! Fingers crossed!

I have started to realise recently how much I will miss Manchester, especially having a nice flat, lots of brilliant places to eat and drink and of course some great friends, however I can’t wait to get back to Coventry.

The main reason to move back to Coventry was to be closer to most of the family and the majority of my best friends are still in Coventry or are back frequently which will be great. It has been quite lonely in Manchester recently, but that is probably more of a reflection of how much effort I have been putting into life in Manchester; next to none!

On a blog related note, I hope to be keeping this a bit more up-to-date, so check back soon!

I know it is unprecedented that someone who has moved away from Coventry returns, however in under 8 weeks I will be doing exactly that!

It has been a difficult decision to make, moving away from Manchester and leaving a brilliant job at CAP, however I think it should have an extremely positive outcome.

I have a new job lined up at a great open source software development company in Coventry where I will be the project manager. I’m really looking to getting stuck into this role!

Also it will be great to be closer to most of the family as at the moment it takes a two hour journey just to visit. Of course it will be extremely sad moving away from Manchester where I have lived for the past four years, leaving some great friends behind but I feel it is time to do something different!

A while ago, I came up with a new idea for a website which I (obviously) thought would be quite and interesting experiment. Over the past month or so, I have been recruiting a few of my friends to get involved and now I can announce that the project is officially in the pipeline.

So what is this idea I hear you say, well the basic idea is a fictional story told from several different characters perspective written by different authors. I know this isn’t particularly groundbreaking, however where this idea differs it that everything will be written on a series of blogs.

Each blog will be a window into the private diary of one of the characters, and all the diaries will be aggregated together to create one big story! There will be global plots which run through all the diaries, however the individual authors will have the freedom to go wild with their own characters.

Hopefully I will get things going in the next month, so watch this space.

I realized again today that we are all growing older. Well thats obvious I suppose, but I specifically mean the old group of friends from Coventry.

It feels as though we are in a significant milestone in life as we all (mostly) have finished University and are off into the big wide world to explore and work.

Only this week, Matt and Helen headed off to Canada for what seems to be an eternity, but only a year. I’m going to miss the whole going down the pub at major holidays!

However, it’s also a really nice time of life. Having the weekends free to catch up with friends, go down the pub and run around singing thundercats is fun! And having some money is kinda nice!
I also feel a bit older after enjoying the Phil Collins song from the Cadbury’s advert and remembering the last time I heard it… 97 I think! Woah!

Well, I have finished University and have already started work full time! It is very different working 9 to 5 (although I work more like 7.45 - 4.15). It’s really nice having evenings and weekends totally free, no coursework or revision to worry about.

For the next two weeks I’m on holiday! It will be good to have a bit of a break. I’m off to Coventry today then France next week. So everybody in Coventry… pub?