So far, so good on the work front. I have all three courses running next week. I do, I admit, need to see how many people turn up at this first lessons before I receive absolute confirmation that I can continue on beyond week one, but its better than them being cancelled outright before they even get off the ground. Fingers crossed, all three will ( Read more... )

It's awhile since I wrote here, which wasn't actually intentional, but was probably a reflection of there being little to write about. Since last time, I taught the classes I mentioned before, had a nicely quiet Christmas holiday, and am now back to finishing off my preparation for next term. I'm hopefully doing three courses, subject to a ( Read more... )

It's that time of year again. Yes, christmas pudding making season is upon us. I spent this morning mixing up the ingredients and putting them into pudding bowls. The first batch is in the steamer now. Christmas cake is pencilled in for tomorrow after I soak the fruit overnight in the booze. We're not making mincemeat this year since, after ( Read more... )

Happy Easter to everyone! I hope you have a nice weekend. At the moment it's sunny here. I'm just keeping my fingers crossed and hope this continues because it's been ever so cold the last couple of weeks with even more snow flurries ( Read more... )

We have had the weirdest weather over the last few days. It's March. It should be Spring. And truthfully, today we have blue skies and sunshine. But Monday we had to dig the cars out of the snow for folks to go to work in the morning, and then all day it alternated between blizzards and brilliant sunshine. Mum described it as looking like we were ( Read more... )

I'm happy to report that both WEA classes came off in the end. Neither were cancelled because of snow and they have carried on past the first week, so that's good from a work perspective. The coming week will be the third and fourth class respectively of each course. One group will be looking at absolute dating methods (i.e. things like radiocarbon ( Read more... )

Jack Frost has visited with a vengeance. It's mid afternoon and the ground is still white out. There's a load of freezing fog too, so I'm very glad I haven't had to go out today ( Read more... )

It's currently tipping it down with rain, which is just ugh! It's so black outside, I've actually had to put the light on and it's only lunchtime. Mad. However, on the plus side, I don't need to go out, so it could be worse ( Read more... )

A couple of small animal bone assemblage has made my half-term a little busier than I had originally planned for over the last couple of days, but in a good way. I'm always happy to get offered that sort of work. So, yeah, had to look at those and write reports on them. As a result, I haven't had a chance to get to the session plans yet that I ( Read more... )

I think we can safely say that autumn has arrived with a vengeance. This weekend has been at best bright but cold, at worst - as it continues to be today - wet, windy and generally cold. Fortunately we got what bits and pieces we needed to done in the garden yesterday morning whilst it was still dry. I picked what remained of the tomatoes. They're ( Read more... )