Universities and all that

OK like many people Ive been hit by this flu virus thingy whatever. Nough said.


Well its hard to believe but its daughter's final year at Uni..June and its all over. OK we've got to get over graduation day yet and no Im not wearing hat or fascinator, which by the way is a stupid word for a stupid item...apologies to those who think they are fantastic items .

Anyway daughter is having to fill in a havent we been fantastic university survey. For my half pen'orth I can disagree,,not going to effect my employment status but apparently undercurrent from Uni lecturers is that if you dont play nicely could effect students prospects. (for her comments http://khinjarsi.blogspot.co.uk/p/about-khinjarsi.htm)


Given the costs of going to University these days I think the universities need to stop hiding behind manipulated information. In fact like other businesses. I think they should be forced to do an itemised bill explaining how they have spent individual students fees. If you have 3 lectures a week how can this be on same level as those that have  6 lectures etc. As for new students having to pay up to £9000 (and it was quite obvious that once one University started charging that much every other one would (apologies to any that havent) I would be interested to see how that is allocated..

Also university accomodation is not always great  ( and not always near campus)...luckily daughter managed to get decent house accomodation for these last two years. Mind you the old saying that personal items accrue to fill space might cause a problem given that we no longer have People Carrier.

If the University is close this is not a problem...my daughter chose to go to one as far away as possible ( OK slight exaggeration).

On another note...his lordship continues exploring his mid life crisis in the guise of 9 hour DVD Old Grey Whistle test. Some of the music I dont mind but others are very depressing..only teenagers could have listened to that..actually if you look back at your teenage music..you suddenly realise its not only your teenagers that can have the label    "from another planet" its not puberty we hit ..its acclimatisation to Earth.

OK Ive given up hope of his lordship actually putting kettle on so thats what Im going to do

Have a good weekend

Liz

Mothers Day

Well thats a non starter, son is still in the depths of Duvet land and doubt if hell reach summit till this afternoon. Daughter is making me card at some point..well thats that.

At minute we are watching some sort of universe programme..looking at stars that are different to years...ago  and let me digress for a minute not that Im digressing really as  I have yet to start a topic. Now talking about constellations..ok I wasnt but I am now so pay attention just in case it makes senses ( at this point I will pause a minute to let those people who know me pick themselves up off floor and stop the hysterics as its very off putting) right if we are ready to carry on.. talking about constellations...what were they called before we gave them all the roman gods/godesses names ( OK some might be Greek but its all greek to me..sorry couldn't resist that) anyway they are called something else by Native Americans and aboriginal people and they probably ave more interesting names and who decided they were shaped like archers , lions etc. The only one I know is Orions belt and the Plough which doesnt look like a plough in this day and age...I mean with technology how it is and the advances in machinery it is better to called it flag although I have a funny feeling its called a pan somewhere though actually looks like an axe to me. And Orions belt could just as easily be traffice lights although I think there is a European country that has traffic lights in a triangle (Might be wrong there).
They are also discussing the meteor hitting Russia. Apparently if it had been a different trajectory and different year it would have hit UK

OK on another subject Ive decided to go contract phone ( dragged his lordship into phone shop so they can technically bamboozle him and he can drool over phones) now Ive a smaller sim card..a nanosim instead of microsim!!!! and need an adapter. Also got new phone number..yeah yeah I know I can keep old one but Ive now got new one...so all Ive got to remember is who I need to give number to apart from friends ( yes I have a couple honest)

We have snow..its wrong kind of snow..it being wet and drizzly so everything looks dirty..I have a feeling that there is some washing on line but as its my sons he can go and fetch it in..I'll lend him torch :-) (nope still havent found emocions.

Right you can all go now and enjoy your Mothers day ( i'll sit in corner sulking and spitting feathers )

 

Ok lets forget this week

This has not been good week. I have had an attack of the meandering mental messages messing up my mouth ( thats alliteration by the by).

Stuttered speech ( alliteration ...getting good at this). Anyway given that I havent had to hold a conversation with anybody today ( son doesnt count..monosyllabic ( which I picture as an octopus)).

Son is disappointed as he went on look round training day and is first reserve ..which you and I know means nothing.

Ofsted has been and gone...nowt to do with me didnt see any of them. Had an interesting week. Learnt a new technique called " Duck".

Oh and whilst I was driving I had a bit of inspiration or cloud cuckoo land ( you dont hear that phrase very much now...is it not PC ..have the cuckoos complained...having said that you dont hear them either)


Which brings me on to another thought.. We asked kids what noise they hate and Drama teacher ( shes fun but dont tell her I said so... Im not supposed to understand fun/smile or have sense of humour...little do they know :-) and   still  havent found emocions. Digress..my daughter would disagree she would say my humour is strange..come to think of it so does his lordship..but hes one who cracks bad jokes ( dont tell him I said so...he thinks hes funny)...anyway back to the noise the kids hate. Drama teacher said Nails on a blackboard  but I stated that if se thought about it the kids probably didnt know what a blackboard was let alone the noise that scraping fingernails made ( I can feel people of a certain age cringing)

Oh back to the original thought a paragraph back

For I have thought of distant stars where dreams dance their pirouettes and bring the hope of morning


make of that what you will


  

Shortest Month

HI Everybody

Well its been an interesting week.. His lordship keeps updating my computer with different Office software. Work has also updated computer software which is quite interesting as majority of us had only just got round to using original software but at least we are safe  for 3 years. 

For some peculiar reason my colleagues think Im quite computer literate..my family on the other hand think Im the IT missing link..ie Im missing it completely. ( here daughter is nodding head in agreement )

Well Im not that bad.....I know how to shut down  ( it only took me half an hour to figure out icon wasnt on screen). I must admit I was whizz with mechanical adding machine except when I was taking it to pieces to see how it added up. ( Im told the "extra" bits are still turning up..wish my vac nozzle would!) 

OK you dont really want to know all that waffle.   

Sorry got distracted  his lordship making chronic jokes..well he thinks they are funny..something about short plank...no I dont get it either but he is watching a science program where they have just stated that all roads in science lead to the plank length but that might be "Planck Length" for those interested try Wikipedia....dont say you'll understand it but might be in quiz question at some  point.

  OK  what else has been happening...well OFSTED...nough said...if you dont have dealings with them they wont mean anything..if you do  drink helps :-) (Im sure there must be a way of putting emocions on here)

As this is pretty boring blog and Im tired of going back and correcting spelling I will stop here..I suggest most of  you stop reading after Hi everybody.

One more work day then his lordship is going to pick up a telescope...not the pretty little shop design ones bu one that has 6 inch mirror so now we have a pair......which will go with seismograph in garden. ( this was vast improvement on 6ft satellite dish)    And he objected to garden gnomes....perhaps if we put one in a space suit or had an Einstein lookalike...............

Signing off


  

Half Term Blues, greens and even yellows

Hi everyone or no-one

Well its half term here and I had this idea that I would finally get a load of stuff sorted and some on ebay ( well my rubbish could be someone else's treasure but wont hold my breath).

His lordship also known as my husband bless his cotton socks ( which by the way are mainly black but never
seem to pair up .).sorry I digress ..talking of digress..I get an image of a figure in flowing black cape whenever I use the word digress ( I expect there is a psychological reason..but I digress ( oops there she is again no idea why its a woman but it is) oops lost track of brackets hang on). Ok back to his lordship. He went for an interview and apparently there were 800 applicants for 80 places to be interviewed in 3 days I think.....can you imagine the logistics of that. Sorry not really relevant but its sort of in the flotsam and jetsam of my thinking.

Any way back to half term. Now if you know me ( I sympathise) you know I have this wonderful condition known as ME or CVF or is it CFS, anyway, whichever one they are using at present time. This means I have limited energy ( for more info track Spoon Theory on the web and no cant find link) so Monday I was mainly in bed,,busy weekend, Tuesday I managed to get down GP and decided that I would apply myself to my storage corner in bedroom ( ok junk corner) found some Christmas cards...dont ask...put 3 black sacks of rubbish in daughters room  ( she being away at uni) and as I know she reads this blog.

STOP STRESSING it'll be gone by time you get back

Well rubbish will but we wont mention other boxes. So having done that..walked to post box and vacced up that was my limit. So I decided to do some shredding instead. My bin is now full..roll on next Friday when it is emptied. I did give some stuff away on freecycle. Anyway thats not interesting to you lot out there so you can just skip that part.
Diet is pants at minute...but I expect will be back on track next week.  Oh whilst I think about it I have been having fun with the post.

My daughters original 21st present from her grandma via me turned up smashed..couldnt replace cos no longer available,..so she chose someting else....bill to me ...deliver to her..nope delivered to me so now I have to forward it to her. But they are sending something to her in place of postage to me ( lets hope they now read delivery address). Another parcel that should have turned up here 3 days ago turned up today.
A form I send out at beginning of last week hasnt arrived at all so now being sent a replacement.Mind you somebody else must be getting our junk mail as we arent getting any...no thank you for your  generous offer but dont want yours.

Right Im off..washer is alarming me ( that is its alarm is going off to say that its finished not that its attacking me) and as its sunny ( that bright thing in the sky) Im attempting to hang some washing out ( stop laughing Im an optimist)

Ok have a great weekend. Oh and for those who know me..just because my spelling is good does not mean my grammar is on par.

Such a non day

HI all those people out there who arent reading this.


Today is a non day..its happening but Im not taking part. Well actually most of it had gone before I even got up the rest disappeared whilst I wasnt looking. You know you look bad when your partner looks at you and says go back to bed just before he says what we got for tea, have you washed my...  etc etc

OK so what have I been thinking about..believe or not Aliens. Its his lordships fault really as he will watch these scientific programmes most of  whom use words I cant pronounce or spell and as my colleagues are aware  ( cos I drive them mad) my spellings pretty good. If I cant spell a word it probably doesnt exist well thats my theory..and no Im no good at scrabble.

Any these aliens  I decided that cats must be aliens and that the government is preparing us by putting all these adverts on about cats with thumbs which immediately brought up a picture of a sloth on a skateboard.

thats another thing about me..you can say something and I can break down in hysterics ( at this point my daughter is putting her heads in her hands pretending not to be related)   because I suddenly have a picture pop up in my head which is probably totally irrelevant or for that matter irreverent. The other thing you need to know is that if I do find something funny I can laugh till I cry and if I remember it during the day I will start again. At which point my son will give me an exasperated look and walk out.

now where was I? oh yes aliens .. actually talking of which... yet another sidetrack...a teacher at work always looks at me as if I come from another planet, a couple of others probably wish I was on one  and those are the ones who dont think Im weird.

See I can digress quite a lot..only as a woman I call it multi-thinking. Multi-tasking however is a little harder.

OK the question was " Is there intelligent life on other planets?" and too be quite honest I cant see why as there is very little on ours.

Thats me done

Have a good night

Goodnight

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