The day of reckoning arrived and my precious daughter is now starting her first year at university. The 160 mile drive back alone after dropping her off was the saddest, loneliest drive I have ever made. It started off okay, we arrived by midday, unpacked the car, moved her belongings into her prison-like room … More University
So, exam results are in and sadly, my daughter is going to have to sit a retake after failing to achieve the desired grades to enter the university of choice. We kind of expected bad news after she failed to finish one of the papers…just ran out of time. Must write faster! On a positive … More retakes – another year
Time flies when you’re having fun….but lets see, Christmas has come and gone, New Year and now we’re fast approaching that time of the year when Universities have to be visited in order to be assessed. The problem here is, do I really want to travel hundreds of miles, dragged around university campuses with my … More University dilemmas
Do you ever get the feeling that sometimes the cards are just stacked against you, no matter what you do? You even make sacrifices thinking: ‘ha, that will teach you’, only to have the whole thing backfire quite spectacularly. All I can say; it’s just as well I’m not playing the casinos right now ’cause … More When the chips are down
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