In this place, you do need a loyal subtribe of your own where you can take shelter from the storms. An essential part of my survival strategy has been the weekly get-together with my class of 2011 intake year group. Thank you all for those hundreds of Wednesday nights in trusted company, trying to make some sense of it all. It's still work in progress, of course. I value the honesty and the camaraderie, if not always the food. Goldie's coleslaw toasted sandwiches—they are not height of the cuisine that I've been used to, but good on you, Goldie. That's how he keeps so thin, I suppose. 