Hey Dave,
Thanks for the quick response. I've got quite a bit of good material here to get through in ebook, audio and video formats. I have been through quite a lot of stuff already, though advice on the best material to look at is always helpful as I'm pretty new to it all and may have missed something key. I'll be glad when I've finally handed in this dissertation in 2 weeks when I will have the time to be able to concentrate on it all properly. Once that is out the way I'll be making a big push to try to get myself involved in various things.

The voluntary work is a good idea, I had considered doing something like that early next year. Any thoughts on what might be a good area to volunteer in to make some friends? I'm not sure what clubs I should consider joining, I see a lot of advice on martial arts classes (from Carlos Xuma in particular) and maybe even some sort of hip hop dance class (not ballroom ) if they even exist could be fun. Is that the kind of club you meant?

Thanks,
James