Committed (or I should be)

Today has been something of a roller coaster ride. The big news is this – I have committed: The OU replied to my enquiry this morning, basically to say that I needed to phone them. I did just that and was very happy to find myself speaking to the same person who had sent the email. He was …

Further Fairies

Hard on the heels of the Wine Fairy came the Flower Fairy. Am I not  a lucky girl? As expected, I have not heard back from the OU yet so it seems certain that I shall not be starting AA100 in October. I have taken symbolic action though and am now committed by virtue of …

Free education, Free the people

I wrote this post earlier today, actually on Facebook, but pulled it before pressing the Post button. I am still not sure whether to submit it here – not because I in any way retract anything that I have said nor because I fear having my head above the parapet but because I know that …

That old addiction

It is entirely possible that I have overdone the MOOC registrations this week.  All that I really intended to do was to change my registrations on the courses that I failed to get to grips with – having signed up with good intentions, the winter robbed me of my energies and I simply never checked …

The space between

I began a new FutureLearn course today. It’s a bit up itself and I don’t know if I shall stick with it but the high point of this week was discovering this video How did I get to my advanced age without having seen this video before? It is a work of GENIUS. Anyway – …