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 …
Category archives: Living
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 – …
There is a tiger in my fridge
What have I been doing for the past nine days, you may well ask. Last Wednesday we took off after work and loaded Brunhilde on to the evening ferry for Kirkwall. It was a fairly late sailing, going via Stronsay, meaning that had we been on time we would land at 8 pm. We were …
A new cycle
The post today brought my annual allocation of free ferry tickets. I immediately began to think “Let’s go to Shetland!” Of course, they are not effective until April 1st, so we shan’t be heading North any time soon. Also delivered today was my new rolling pin. It is not as posh as my last one, …
Somebody pop the kettle on
It has been a funny old day, and a busy one. Mr L roused me from my slumbers this morning with the news that Brunhilde was booked on the ferry. He also mentioned that the support call for our Broadband fault had been updated to reflect the fact that there had been no update. It …
Already?
Our Broadband was still crippled this morning. It does seem to be affecting only a few people on the island but we are surprised all the same that it had not yet been logged. Mr L was back at work this morning and so he called his Help Desk. They ran some line tests and …