3BT: old friends, and a new friend, and magazines

1. Two emails from ex-students -both very excited to hear from me - and with them memories: of Costa Coffee on Thursday mornings with one, of posh meeting rooms with beautiful views over the river in Canary Wharf with the other, and of good times together, learning, laughing, being friends.

2. Clare from the original 3BT website follows me on twitter. She's inspired me, made my life better in a small but not insignificant way. Plus, with the name thing, I feel a kinship.

3. My back issues of the Writer Magazine arrive from America. A writing magazine. From America. Really, that should be two beautiful things.