It’s been a busy, busy month. Excuse me while I resist my omnipresent desire to talk about the weather/seasons/general wind-factor…….okay, okay, I can’t! How mild is it? In my mind I want it to be winter wardrobe territory, but after a minutes outdoor walking the layers are quickly stripped off and by the time I reach my destination I am back in summer attire. On went the heating last week….and promptly off again; quick, open the balcony door – too hot, too stuffy! But in a way, I’m glad, because I still haven’t managed to find a new pair of boots. They’re all too long, too short, too studded, too suede, too leopard-print-lined, too trendy. The cold needs to hold off until I find a pair that don’t shrink my little legs to nothingness. And also, how dark is it? By like 5pm, I mean. This blog post wouldn’t be a blog post if I didn’t talk about this old chestnut; the darkness has snapped in so fast that I can’t quite find my way home past 5 o’clock. It’s disorientating and kind of sad but also very exciting, in a let’s get on the sofa and wrap up warm with something cosy and wintery kind of way. Ok, that’s it about the weather, promise.

In this fine month of October, two important things have happened. One: I got a Glastonbury 2010 ticket. Two: I got an iPhone. Where to start? Each year the importance of getting a Glastonbury ticket heightens. Glastonbury-ticket-getting-eve = cocoa and an early night. Glastonbury-ticket-getting-morning = up early, multiple phones at the ready, on the ticket website, refresh refresh refresh refresh. I’m not going to drag this out, but basically it’s the most massive stress because basically Glastonbury is the most amazing weekend (5 days, actually) ever, so it is massively important that I go. I could think of no other way I could bear to spend my last weekend in June (every June ever) and, quite frankly, if I didn’t get a ticket I would have to leave the country (probably for the whole of June and a bit of July, just to make sure I don’t feel any reverberations). So anyway, I got a Glastonbury ticket, as did the boy, my Mum, Dad, brother, and friends plural, which has led to much Glastonbury-hysteria in this month of, yes, October. Only 8 months to go! I hate to wish away the year, but come on, it’s Glastonbury!

And with my new iPhone, I now know how the next 8 months will be spent: daily Glastonbury watching on Twitterific. It’s a dangerous tool, that iPhone. The rumours are already abound and with my new phone, I’m the first to know about them. Other important things I can do on my phone include making phone calls and sending text messages (and facebooking, listening to music, reading all my favourite blogs on the go, watching youtube videos, checking wikipedia, studying the tube map just for fun, checking dictionary.com, locating cash machines in a flash, checking the weather in whatever cities I fancy(!!!), reading Shakespeare, and tossing virtual paper into a virtual bin). I could go on, but I won’t. I will, however, just draw your attention to the Shakespeare application; I couldn’t believe it. It’s literally the entire Shakespeare catalogue on my phone, at the click of a button, voila/hey presto, I’m deep in Othello: Act V, reading “Of one that lov’d not wisely but too well.” I love it. There’s even a search function: type in any word and it brings up every Shakespeare usage of it in every act of every play. If I was doing a Shakespeare essay (which, unfortunately, I am not) it’d be a dream.

One more thing about October. Last weekend, I did a 10k run. Yes, that’s right! And no, not just for fun, for charity! It was one of those Cancer Research Run 10k thingies…there was a group of about 30 of us in total, we ran in the grounds of Hatfield House in Hertfordshire, and collectively raised over £14,000. Impressive stuff, eh? I ran 10k without stopping and then ate lots of cake and pizza. T’was a lovely day.

So yeah, Glastonbury tickets, iPhones (plural because the boy got one too, a few days after me, so we are officially a right pair of geeks – albeit trendy geeks) and a casual 10k run. That all constitutes a busy month, right? I apologise in advance for my future Glastonbury/iPhone related blogs, but it can’t be helped – I’m obsessed.

Andy Williams rumoured for Glastonbury; my friends and I have discussed learning the following routine so we can strut our stuff in the fields of Somerset…