I'd forgotten about this blog.  I think I'll pick it up again and see where it goes.

The end of my photography course looms and I can't deny I'm not looking forward to being without the challenge of homework and meeting up with the rest of the class every week.

All their work has been inspirational, it's interesting to see the different interpretations of the tasks.

We are just over half way through the course, Easter approaches and homework is to get our final projects well underway. I' think I've finally decided on the form of the project, old photos and my own combined and blended to create a map of Liskeard.

Nine days! then I shallbe driving up to the airport and flying across the Atlantic... I'm nervous and excited.

I spent the morning shopping for little Cornish things to take over for Jana and her family. The inevitable weight allowance limits what I can take, but I was pleasantly surprised by how many little things I was able to find!

As soon as we get back from the States, after easter we will be arranging to see lawyers about the possibility of visas, now I'm free of uni pressures we can start to get this ship under way!

Ends tied up and chapter closed.

Everyone liked the cakes, carrot with orange frosting, and ginger and cinnamon with caramel fudge frosting. The theses have been delivered along with all images and films of snails, so that's it...I'm done.

It feels ... strange....

The trees in my garden have been pruned and look soooo bare, but they will be better in the summer, and we won;t get nasty letters from the council about the hedge needing trimming! The gardeners did the bulk of the tidying so I can get out there and do the fine stuff ...The weather forecast is good for the weekend so looks like a couple of days in the garden :D

Tying up loose ends

The last of my ties to the University are being stretched, and today I have to bake a couple of cakes as a final farewell to everyone. The bound copies of the thesis should be ready for collection either today or tomorrow and I promised Sam that I would bring in cakes when I deliver copies to Simon and John as well as the main office for the library. At the same time I will have all the images and film 'inch-age' in files for Simon to download to his computer, and that will be it.

I cleared out my desk and area a couple of weeks ago, Sam is taking over my little corner, it's kind of nice knowing who's going to be working there.

I need to try and get the description chapters in a form to be forwarded for publication, but that's going to involve a lot of editing of the images, and there's really no huge urgency.

So tomorrow I will take in the cakes, and the computer file and say goodbye.... it feels very strange.

Time for change

I have been very bad at keeping diaries and blogs, and reading other peoples too I might add, much to my shame. However I'm going to try again, and even though I will get stick from some people who would ratehr I use LiveJournal, I'm going to try and keep this Blog. Why? you may ask, because I don;t like the adverts that appear in my Lj! and I didn;t even realise until very recently when I was thinking of making an entry, it put me right off! and to be honest, I didn't feel inclined to pay even the paltry sum of $24 a year.

So I'm going to try and keep this blog, at least fairly regularly if not frequently.

This week I collect the bound edition of my thesis, and hand a copy to the main office for the library, as well as a copy of the title page and the abstract to go to the British Library for all eternity... wow! Both John and Simon want a copy, and I have had two bound for me. All copies except on are black with gold text. I know this may seem very conservative for me! but I like the classic sleekness of that look, it gives the work gravitas. The final copy however, is bound in peacock blue ! Hey! this is me, and one really should have a back up copy of ones serious work.

It's the middle of March and in three weeks time I will be visiting Jana in NY State. it's sort of scary and exciting all at once since I shall be going alone and Chris and the rest of the family are skiing at Whistler in Canada. As always at times like this I wish I'd been able to loose some weight, I feel pathetic about this bane of my life! But it is as it is, I shall be working on it for D*C in September, I just hope that now I don;t have to sit in front of a computer writing a thesis I will manage to get somewhere!

It's nice to be asked to things!

We 'table top rp' game twice a week with the same GM but different groups of people... very different groups of people! On Thursdays we go to Julie and Ainsley's they are a wonderful couple in their thirties with three fabulous, and I really mean ~fabulous~ daughters, aged abot 7,4 and 1. All three are well behaved happy, friendly and outgoing, one can't help but enjoy being with them, and I'm always a little disappointed when we arrive late and they've gone to bed. Anyway, we have been invited to the youngests' christening on Sunday, it's been a very long time since we went to a christening, and the invitation was so unexpected... it's nice to be invited!

Random thoughts

Why is it when you're sitting in the car driving somewhere you can perfectly word that paragraph you've been struggling over for hours prior to sitting behind the wheel, and even more frustrating why can't you remember that perfect wording when you are once more sat in front of the computer!

Whatever makes me think it's a good idea to drive faster to get to the petrol station quicker before the tank is empty?

Oh and I was living in the house when the damned seaguls built their nest! They picked the spot, si they have no right to be dive bombing me everytime I walk down the path... they knew I was there!(grumble mumble)

I don't care why you so urgently needed the kettleful of hot water I hilled and boiled for my cup of tea, I want to know why you didn't refill it and boil it again!

Are zebras white with black stripes or black with white stripes?

.... and just finally what's with fishermen treating the ocean as an endless resource... and then being surprised that the size and numbers of fish are diminishing, but it's not their fault and they have a right to continue to take tons of fish?