I'm so glad I don't have to cart all my books back home - I must be close to my lending limit for the library plus all the books I bought plus lecture notes and research aarrgghhhhh
Aston are known for being quite slow, sorry about that. They do have a lot of applicants though so don't worry about it. As I've said a million times, if they haven't rejected you yet then it means they're still considering you.