So continuing with the adventure and the lessons learnt we now reach Uni Land and life settles down somewhat, at least for a while. The first year is ok, I don’t do spectacularly well but I don’t do particularly badly either. My struggles with Economics continue, but with alot of revision for the re-sit I [...]
Winter had turned into spring and I had gotten fed up living in hell and so decided to start clambering out of the hole I was in. It was at this point I discovered that whilst “smiley professionals” are apparently good to talk to the person who really changes things is you. To do this [...]
This is the Life by Amy MacDonald is one of the best things I have heard in a long time. It’s generally a real summer feel good album with a celtic feel to it, one of those which just by its very nature invites you to sit and chill a while. Personal favourite tracks [...]
It is fitting that as the 80’s moved into the 90’s Appetite for Destruction was a key part of the soundtrack. Whilst the plan seemed to be going well, with a job I enjoyed and seemed reasonably suited to in insurance, an engagement and marriage, flat and mortgage (but note no co-habitation) and a return [...]
If, in that non-descript summer of ‘88 somebody had handed me a blank sheet of paper and asked me to map out where I saw my life going it would have been quite simple. A Levels lead to university which leads to a career; relationship leads to co-habitation and possibly marriage and children; buy a [...]
I’ve talked before on here a bit about my story: average school kid drops out of 6th form, gets married too young, decides to go to uni, has kid whilst @ uni, gets average office job, husband legs it, becomes single mum on benefit and happy pills, moves across country and goes back to uni, [...]
We are currently in that twilight time when people take holidays and are about and not about, sometimes overlapping and sometimes not, meaning on occasion you find yourself left in splendid isolation.
So it is that I have been working in splendid isolation this week, just passing other lone figures on the corridor as they man [...]
Sensible people get a guide book when they do the whole tourist thing, unsensible people buy a history stretching to about 450 pages which they wade through as they admire the results of that history.
Of course whilst I may be many things sensible is not one of them and so it was that I [...]
It is an acknowledged fact that the history we learn is the history that people choose to remember, record and make available. This week I stumbled upon A Forgotten Revival by Stanley C. Griffin in the back of a Glasgow bookshop.
As I sat and read this book which bills itself as “recollections of [...]