Here I am. Glorious, eh?

Wotcha, dear reader. You have found the Starlingford Chronicles, a blog to conjure with. It’s written by me, Gavin, a 26-year-old PhD student from Northern Ireland now doing his degree at Aberdeen University in the north of Scotland. I have learned many things here, but the most important one is the importance of owning warm thick woollen clothing. No Irishman was ever built for temperatures like these, and I have adopted the complexion of the locals – a kind of pale, washed-out blue, like a seasick Smurf…