Well, I’ve been here a month and tomorrow I officially enter the world of the university. In many ways it’s been a different month than I’d been expecting so here are a few reflections.
1) The hills aren’t as bad as I’d expected. However, the thought of walking up and down them when slippery does worry [...]
Back in the wilds of last year I had a situation at work which meant I ended up being assessed for dyslexia, basically I had to explain the reasoning behind my wanting to use a particular strategy. I have now had the full report through, which I’ve passed onto the learning support people up here [...]
Ok, I wasn’t going to go to church hopping, I wasn’t going to turn it into a consumer thing…….but I guess it’s turning that way.
When Third Party revealed that one of her friends went to the local Methodist church and she didn’t feel she was settling into the church we’ve been going to for the [...]
I have realised that if I don’t want to end up living the scene in Bridget Jones when the Alsations come in I need to get a life, and meet people. This will inevitably involve stepping outside my comfort zone, but it can be done in a reasonably successful way as last night showed.
The church [...]
Ok, I admit it whilst I had mild sympathy for my students trying to juggle work and full time at college I never quite went beyond you’re on a course, you’re expected to be here to study mentality that a teacher needs.
Suddenly I feel an awful lot of empathy for the people I sat down [...]
Becoming a student for a first, second or umpteenth time isn’t always easy. There are particular challenges which face lone parents, mature students and others. There are sources of support and advice available though.
One Parent Families has financial guides available for students entering both further and higher education.
National Union of Students has general [...]
No, I’m not going to launch into one about politics, as such. I do have a question though, since when have party conferences been in industrial towns rather than sea-side resorts? Manchester does not give the same opportunities for dodgy media shots of senior party figures getting windswept on the beach or interviews in howling [...]
As regular readers will be aware I have recently moved denomination, atleast on a temporary basis. For me it’s been more of a psychological than actual upheaval. In reality there are few differences between the general content in terms of most of the songs / hymns being familiar and having similar “outreach” programmes and types [...]
Yesterday Third Party and I were both feeling the change a bit and so rather than sitting around moping I decided to blow part of the weeks budget by grabbing the Family Railcard, hopping on the train to Newcastle and going to see a film in the “posh cinema”, a.k.a multi-plex. (Note this was also [...]
As regular readers will know I’m currently getting my computer access in the media suite of the local library. It’s an arrangement that is working well until I get a computer up and working at home again and is meaning I can do the important keeping in touch with people. It also has the benefit [...]