Now that I've come across the overall results for ED209 I'm finding that they're quite fascinating reading.For a start, despite everyone knowing about one of the questions in advance, 7 people didn't answer it!As expected, most people did the questions

The exam result wasn't supposed to be in until Friday but the scary message "course result" was there this evening. Somehow, no matter how confident you are, course results are always something of an unknown quantity and therefore scary.As it

We've been trying to get a new roof on the kitchen extension since way back in April but finally we seem close to having it done.What took so long was that for reasons which completely escape us, we'd a terrible

Leaving aside the religious approach, supposing that someday it becomes possible for people to live forever, would you actually want to? In principle I would have always said that my answer would surely be "yes" but one of the odder

When you're trying to run a life in two different countries like we are at the moment there's something of a nightmare in terms of administration load that can backup really fast.This morning has been one of the days when

It hardly seems any time at all since we were packing up last January and making a start to moving back to the UK and now Christmas is only a matter of weeks away.As usual, we've not yet really gotten

Most people are still in search of their ideal holiday spot I'm sure. But what is "ideal" anyway?Obviously it should take into account your interests and those of the group which you're travelling with. But is it enough to consider

You probably associate binoculars almost exclusively with birdwatching and indeed there are loads of people running around with "bird watching binoculars".What you probably don't consider is that binoculars are ideal for a whole lot of different types of astronomy too.

It's hard to believe that Hogmanay is just around the corner. Obviously for such a popular event much of the accommodation has already been booked months ago but there's still a chance of finding somewhere decent if you don't hang

Although they can be annoying, it does seem to be a good sign that the people trying to sell you credit cards are back in the shopping centres again and those annoying teatime calls trying to do the same have

In normal universities you expect to meet loads of other students but the perception is that it's a different matter in the OU.However, if you're following one of the recognised paths to a specific qualification you'll often find that you're

Thanks to the funding issues that the Open University are being hit with I find that I, among many others, am having to rejig my planned schedule of courses into something that can seem slightly crazy sometimes.For instance, to pick

Starting a degree at level two causes me the minor problem that I'll be short 60 points by the time I finish what would have ordinarily been the final course had I started at level one.In the course of looking

Although we were working pretty hard in the hotel this time last year, I don't know how we'd manage to fit it into our lives these days.Monday to Friday it sometimes seems like we're operating an almost full-time taxi service.

One of the great things about the Open University is that you can sign up for pretty much any course that takes your fancy yet that's also one of the problems with it too from the student point of view.It's

One of the biggest problems in getting out of France is the sheer quantity of post and email that continues to generate.This wasn't so bad when we were actually working in the hotel as we were online daily and keeping

One of the greatest hassles in our lives at the moment is that we've to try to sort out some administration with the French tax and social security people whilst we're in the UK.You'd think that it would be relatively

Compared to the Child Development course, the Human Biology one is moving along at what almost seems like a snails pace in comparison which probably is indicative of how over the top the workload was on the Child Development course.The

Whilst I'm getting into the swing of the human biology course, the cardiovascular diseases one is something else together.In principle, the human biology course as a level 2, 30 point course should clearly be harder than the cardiovascular diseases courses

The Vanessa George affair showed the major weakness of the CRB system ie that you'll get an "all clear" if you haven't been caught yet.However, the various schools are required to have the CRB check done on anyone who comes