It is not often that successfully defending one's MA thesis counts as only the number two highlight of one's month, but given that Liz Scott was married earlier in October, I suppose we here at What's Up can grant that her thesis defense earlier today must rank second. How close a second is not for us to say. What we can say is that Liz's defense of "Cockney Plots: Working Class Politics and Garden Allotments in London's East End, 1890-1918" went swimmingly. Congratulations, Liz.