How many different ways can the weather appear out of the sky today? And why do we have so few useful words for it (ah yes, I remember, because we view weather as an inconvenience (usually) and distance ourselves from it. But for those of us engaging with it today, wow! Squeaky balls of shining white; hard, slippery jaggedy slices; floppy slush; ( Read more... )

Friday evening M and I went wassailing at Scotswood Gardens, a community project in Newcastle. I was interested to learn a little, my understanding being that one of the three wassailing customs involves encouraging apple trees to produce a good harvest by watering the "tree of trees" with cider, hanging cakes in its branches, walking thrice ( Read more... )

Life has been a bit hurried of late, and Im away I'm still "digesting" many happy and positive experiences, which I may expand on in the future ( Read more... )

Bear with me here (or bare with me ;0) as I try to be clever...

I have just spent a weekend at Minsteracres, a monastery set in beautiful woodlands (avenues of giant seqouia trees) close to Hexham, Northumberland. (Hexhamshire, technically, for those who care..) It was a residential weekend with a local choir I have tenous connections with. We sung and sung. Gospels, barbershop, plainsong etc etc ( Read more... )

Well, final exam for this time round anyway. Not that significant as I am only half way through my 2nd year of 4. Exam in question was statistics. As last time I haven't a clue whether I have passed or not. I certainly havent done well, as I didnt exactly answer all the questions, except in a manipulating datya without actually doing stats kind of ( Read more... )

Today has been hectic but productive. Metro broke down today leaving me in the middle of no-where with an exam in less than an hour. Luckily said middle of nowhere is also served by buses, and the one I got on dumped me the wrong side of the city centre but with a bit of a sprint I made it on time. Phew. I would have been most annoyed to have to re ( Read more... )

So I have been spending much of the last month either revising hard or working at the hospital. The latter has been more fulfilling than the former, but the revision has been necessary as I have exams this week and next ( Read more... )