anyhow, whatever it was, maybe  a little, as jan says, he also had a f a bad flu bug at a bad time  anyhow he crashed out of the computer science course  and he announced that he was  only regarding the computer science course as being a stepping stone to being a teacher so the sensible thing to do would be to go on to the teacher training course at lancashire, an education course, cos that's what he wanted to do.