ErUpNorth

Birmingham Symphony Hall On  Friday night I travelled down to my mums with my son, partner and mother in law so that all five of us could squeeze into our Ford Fiesta and travel to Birmingham on Saturday morning. We left at 10 and the roads were clear all the way through, Alan misread the sat nav although me and John heard her right but too late to change lanes. It was just four miles up the road and back down again so no big deal, but roadworks did make navigation to the car park a little more challenging. I'd paid for VIP parking so a place was reserved for us and made life so much easier. When we arrived in the International Conference Centre (ICC) where the Symphony Hall is located John and I went off to get our tickets leaving the other three waiting by the robing area.  When we got back I went to get my robe not realising it was a one-way system through to the photographer, it wasn't really an issue as it was only me booked in for the photo, I just couldn't...

I did it , I have been granted an Upper Second-class Honours. Never did I expect to even gain a degree when I started my Open University journey in 2007. I cannot remember now how I came to be continuing my education with the OU other than I always say mathematics came to me. I started with a 10 credit openings course and said if I got through it I would consider working towards a Certificate in Mathematics, which I did. I am not good at mathematics or any learning really, I think I have a poor working memory. I understand what people are telling me or what I am reading, but what I cannot do is park that information to recall it and use it. At school my maths teacher would sit with me and go over an example and I would be happy I understood it, he'd say "Now you do the rest", but before he got to the front of the classroom I would have forgotten how I was supposed to do the calculations. So these last 7 years beginning with an Openings then moving onto a Certificate the...

So I just wrote a nice little blog about how I am procrastinating and then managed to lose it.  Sometimes I'm not very bright!