So.
Henry VII.
Let me tell you, he was pretty good at finance.
But - and here's the crucial thing - he was NOT original in his methods.
Not in the slightest.
You want some serious financial and administrative reforms? Check out Edward IV, or even that much maligned monarch (alliteration is a wonderful thing), Richard III.
Henry VII was not an innovator.
So WHY WHY AND THRICE WHY do I have to be able to argue that he was? Why? Why hasn't the exam board realised that actually, Henry VII was LAME?!
Ok, so now I am beginning to exaggerate slightly. Henry VII was not entirely lame. He was pretty good at controlling the nobility, after all. But, you know, there's only so much of him you can take, and I did spend quite a lot of last year learning about him too.
But anyway.
Enough about Henry VII.
I read something today that made me very sad, and made me also realise two important truths:
1) you won't get a boyfriend if you can't wear heels
2) you can't wear heels if you haven't got someone to hold you up in them, ie a boyfriend.
This vicious circle seems to me to be unbelievably cruel, pointless, and totally relevant to real life. It is also probably the reason I can neither wear heels nor get a boyfriend.
I sometimes wonder if there is more to life than moping about being single, feeling chubby, and worrying about work/studying.
