Waiting

A doleful Victorian lady sits on the side of a beached boat with a troubled expression, her voluminous white dress draped around her like seafoam. She's been there a very long time. She wrote her letter to Student Finance back in 1854, and soon a new century will dawn. The telephone has been invented in the meantime. She's spent a total of 11 years, 5 months, 8 days, 4 hours and 35 minutes on hold since then. She just wants £1.2/6 to study millinery. And politics. It's an open degree...