DISCUSSION ABOUT CLASS - SPOILERS...

DISCUSSION ABOUT CLASS - SPOILERS...

@Ichabod– thank you!

Re the boyfriend (actually husband, I somehow forgot that despite having attended the wedding) do you want to know the worst part? He’s army, working in London these days, in anti-terrorism. I can’t even… but yet why does it make a difference that the human rights stuff comes from here?

And with @puroandson– re cars- we…[Read more]

So PIP- personal independence payments haven’t yet seen fit to inform us whether or not they’ve accepted our claim. But the council tax people have. Enhanced rate for both care and mobility.

It just feels good to be believed and taken seriously.

Anyway, onwards and upwards. Got a load of concrete blocks to move from the wall and post in the front garden I knocked down the other weekend. Boyfriend asked me about moving it yesterday, and I looked at them and said it looked like a job for beer to me. So that’s my afternoon today 😉

@puroandson– Thank you and ooh, that sounds nice, and it is the weekend! (sort of).

The good thing with the OU is for the first half- the continuous assessment, we get very detailed comments, both as notes on the submitted assignment and in the summery the tutor sends (it’s to make up for less face to face) which is very useful. For the final…[Read more]

Hi everyone, just had a little good news in this bleak time – I got another distinction, this time for the level three Creative Writing module for the OU. This actually makes it all distinctions save for one 30 credit module where I just missed it, and one module to go, so yeah, I’m happy, but but but!

I have a feeling I’m really boring because…[Read more]

@pedant, @puroandson, @Bluesqueakpip, @missy–

The tutor that was sent to me when I got my Disabled Student Allowance through the OU lent me the book he had self published with a friend through amazon. What got me was that it clearly wasn’t finished. When I pointed out that it was in the form of a novel but wasn’t really a novel- there was some…[Read more]

@Arbutus– I’d love to get one of those little hoover-droids. But mostly to wind up the dogs. They’d probably kill it. When we had carpets and nine dogs, I was forever vacuuming. We switched the Vinyl flooring, I don’t think I could go back to carpets. Sounds like you have quite a sporty family?

Everyone re-backups. I have an external hard drive…[Read more]

@missy– the Nicorette inhaler things work for some- but I take it it hasn’t stopped you from wanting to smoke? A vape feels a lot more like smoking. I actually enjoyed smoking, and with a, e-cigarette, you still inhale and exhale a cloud, only a cloud of something that doesn’t linger, and smells a lot nicer, vapour rather than smoke. I think they…[Read more]

@janetteB,@Arbutus: my housework schedule runs thus: someone is coming to the house (I insist on an hours warning; I resent the assumption that my house is permanently in a visitor ready state). Clear surfaces (random draws are great for that) sweep up sand and dog hair. Mop. Visitor leaves. Things pile up again. I plaintively ask how the kitchen…[Read more]

@missy– apologies- I forgot you weren’t in Britain. I don’t know where you live in Australia but a quick google search showed me there are shops over there- some refer to vaping, some e-cigarette, one called ‘whysmoke’. Incidentally, though I tend to stick to menthol and cherry flavour (I used to smoke cherry menthol tobacco) on the ground of I’m…[Read more]

@Ichabold- what did you think of the latest episode? Apparently ‘the feminists have taken over’  according to the ever understated reactions of some commentators… I do agree it gets too much. Really what I’m responding to is the idea that it’s all about the sadism and watchers are mini sadists, when there is more. And it has lost its way on…[Read more]

@missy, @Ichabod, @winson – there really isn’t that much screaming. Or quite as much violence as some critics claim. The show features a couple of young men who really are like boys pulling wings off flies. But there is a balance. The last episode (though you’d need to watch it from the start to get the impact) was in my opinion GOT at its best.…[Read more]

@missy – A Song of Ice and Fire (which is the book series from which the program is made) is very informed by medieval times. I like it when writers who want to use a medieval setting, but don’t fancy the ton of research an historical series was require to be any good, so they make a fantasy as well. Which also allows dragons and such like. But…[Read more]

@missy – vape shops are found on most highstreets nowadays- its one kind of shop that really benefits from walk in trade rather than internet orders. They tend to have a lot of vinyl’s on the windows and are called things like ‘such and such a place vape’ or ‘such and such a place eciggerettes’. I’ve come to notice them like I used to notice…[Read more]

@missy – yes, I’m very proud of my Ginger cake. I’m actually trying to cut down on carbs and sugar, because they make me tried. And my boyfriend is trying to lose weight because he can’t burn a lot off anymore. So I only make it when we have guests, but it never lasts very long. Yes, there are many distractions in the world, one really doesn’t…[Read more]

@missy– so very much cheaper, around now at least. The ones in the chemists tend to be the ones that look like cigarettes, aren’t refillable and aren’t very good. Most shops that sell cigarettes sell basic kits for about £12, and they’re OK but not great. If you’d brave the vape shops, with all their nerdiness, or I believe the VIP brand is quite…[Read more]

@Arbutus– I have found studying the only way to force me to work, especially the creative writing modules. I’ve just finished one and trying to keep going with the writing until the next module starts. I love writing, but not always while I am doing it. Sometimes people say things like ‘Oh I’d love to be a writer’ and I think, especially when I’m…[Read more]

@missy– ah, but though I don’t deny the blood and gore. There is more to it than that, and it is the other things I watch it for. The Medieval period was itself rather bloody- I wouldn’t want to watch someone being hung drawn and quartered. People used to watch quite gory executions, for entertainment, I suppose the point I want to make is not…[Read more]