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(Do you all use spotify? It's easier to find songs to share with you)

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Firstly I must apologise to the Pizza Police for stealing their exact challenge for this week. I forgot that’s where I read it.

I am le tired.

This weekend it was my housemate Ellen’s 21^st. She is an incredibly organised and proactive person and therefore had booked a massive house near Glastonbury for us to go celebrate her birthday at. I had a brilliant time so decided to share some photos with you guys.

We got the bus from Bristol to Glastonbury and then walked from Glastonbury town up some country lanes to an old farmhouse play where we were staying. It rained a lot but it was nice because the countryside was like being at home.

We then walked (walking was a pretty major theme of the weekend) up Glastonbury Tor which looks like this:

At the top it looked like this. I couldn’t stop thinking of Skyrim whilst we were up there, it is a very beautiful game and this was a very beautiful place. Unfortunately there was no chest full of gold in the tower:

We then walked back to the house and were split into teams to get dinner ready. I was on the team in charge of lighting the fire because I’m such an alpha male. We bossed the fire making:

All 30 of us squeezed around the table and we had curry. I sat next to a girl I didn’t know and she was talking about how chivalry was dead, I disagreed, but didn’t really think through my argument very well and I have now decided chivalry probably is dead, but this is probably a good thing, its sexist to both men and women.

We then played lots of drinking games. My favourite new game is ibble dibble. We very much need to play this together. You get lots of black marks on your face if you're bad at it:

 We made friends with a cat which seemed to just come and go as it pleased:

5 of us ended up staying up until like 5 this morning which in hindsight was just silly. As I mentioned, I am very tired.

This morning after an incredible breakfast of scrambled eggs and bacon we got to go feed the piglets. They were adorable but pooed an awful lot. The best pig was called Inky, he had spots.

We played some football and my trousers ripped in a very unfortunate and noticeable position. Much like the time everyone saw Tom’s dick but not quite as revealing. I then had to walk, bus and then walk some more to get home and it was quite bad. So that was my weekend and I liked it a lot.

Other than this weekend, the rest of my week was really quite boring. I had lectures about the brain and nervous system and it mostly went over my head, it is super complicated. When I was looking for brain related videos I found this and it was very helpful:

Juliet, I liked your song and it immediately reminded me of this. I expect some of you have seen in, but if not, it is quite funny:

So I guess I should do my challenge, even if I stole the idea. So this week whilst writing my essay I learnt how it was discovered that heart cells divided, for ages people thought that they couldn’t divide at all. So when cells replicate, carbon from the atmosphere is incorporated into the DNA, a proportion of atmospheric carbon is carbon-14. The atmospheric levels of carbon-14 have been really tightly monitored for ages now so we have really good records of its levels. During the cold war in the 60s there was loads of nuclear bomb testing which caused a big influx in carbon-14 in the atmosphere and therefore an increase in its incorporation into cells when they divide. The researcher matched the atmospheric levels with the levels they found in heart cells and could see where the big peak occurred and therefore work out the age of the cells. With this they could show that you had heart cells younger than your age and so they must be dividing. I just thought the method was really clever and interesting.

I am going to be home from next Friday until Monday because its my birthday! Will any of you be around? It would be literally the best thing ever to see you all.

Wow, that was incredibly long. I am sorry.

I love that this is our 2nd perfect week in a row and I love you.