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Our Travel Checklist So Far: What We’re Preparing Before Leaving Scotland
Right… deep breath. We are leaving Scotland. Not right now obviously (although I wish it was) but it is one of those things that I don’t think I’ll believe until my butt is on the airplane so I am saying it as much as I can in hopes that my brain finally clicks on. We…
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Why I Went Back to School as a Mum — and What I’ve Learned So Far
If you had told 17-year-old me that I would one day be studying for a university degree by choice, as a mum, while home educating, running a business, and preparing to move across the world… I would’ve assumed you’d been hit on the head with something heavy. Because back then?University wasn’t on my radar. Not…
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Degree Progress With The Open University – Round Up
Ok, I know it’s been absolutely forever since I’ve written a post. It hasn’t been that I forgotten (at all!) – just that I’ve been super busy with work, home education, our moving plans, uni, and tbh the more time that passed the more I stared at a blank page, scared of my keyboard and…
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What I’ve Been Up To At The Open University
I was trying to study but it appears to be a fruitless attempt at productivity as my neighbour has decided to either build an ark in their front garden or it could just general DIY, who knows! … At any rate it is not a conducive environment to focus and try write an assignment on…
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my first week as a mature university student
Well technically not the first “official” week, nor the first week really. I’ll explain. On the 11th of September, my Open University module website opened, the course itself doesn’t officially start until the 5th of October but with the module website opening earlier you can pretty much make a start on the learning material to…
“Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle
Scottish Roots, Wandering Boots 