What the hell possessed me to sign up for this course. Am far to old to be sitting in lecture theatres. Spent 3 years at university managing to avoid it, why am I doing it again? Shit! Have just had awful thought....supposing there’s an exam. Aaagh! Have also realised that I will be in Italy for one weekend and don’t get back until the Monday evening so will miss one session. Wonder if they will take dim view of this. Should I tell HP? He can’t say much because trip to Italy is to finalise arrangements for my students going for optional weekend in Rome to look at Italian cuisine. Had a ball last year - took 10 students who came back astonished that there was more to Italian grub than spag bol and Chianti bottles existed outside of table lamps.