Was woken this morning by a noisy Class-37 double-ender train going past my window not long after 8am. I hate trains.

We're almost at the end of lectures for this term. Large animal lectures finished last week, and we only have one more week of small animal lectures before we get a week's study leave for the exams coming up.

This week saw us sitting through lectures on horse reproduction and foal care (a bit like the horsey part of the vet TV series on BBC1 at the moment) and a three-hour seminar on tortoises and snakes (with some excellent anecdotes, none of which I am going to repeat here!). I find reptiles and amphibians challenging - more and more, people are expecting vets to be experts on everything, and as we only get three hours on reptiles and nothing on amphibians, it's hard to know where to start!

I've also been helping post-mortem more otters this week - it's nice to have somewhere to go to during the week, that isn't in any way associated with studying or course work - although it does make for good revision!

Off now for a driving lesson. Somehow not looking forward to it this morning!