Hello, it’s been a while hasn’t it?! Stuff has happened and been decided and new things have occurred.
We’re heading off of Rum, at least for the winter, maybe for longer. Off to Glastonbury to stay at Middlewick from mid November til Christmas. Not sure just yet quite what we’ll be doing but I do know where we’ll be staying and it will be lovely and bigger than a caravan with a bath and a washing machine and stuff.
Christmas with Mum and Dad, and Frazer, Kat & Robin which will also be lovely. And challenging. But hopefully mostly lovely.
Access to all the joys and delights and trappings of the mainland – shops, cinema, junk food, people, opportunities, friends….
We’ll either come back running and screaming for our lives here on Rum or stay forever. Either will involve readjustment and compromise and much discussion. Interesting times are ahead.
Meanwhile Davies has signed up for and started an access course with the OU. People, work and Society. I’ve also started it – partially so I can assist, partially cos I thought I might be envious if he did it as it’s also *my* subject area and partially to see if I might want to embark on further education myself. So far (and it is very, very early days) it’s going really well. We’ve finished the introduction and unit one and are stuck into unit two already. We’re ahead as actually it doesn’f officially start until this weekend and we are already well into the second week’s worth of study but it’s been good to get a flavour and a head start and think / talk about how it might all pan out. We have different tutors for it which should be good and we’re currently working through it together with me guiding Davies and helping him interpret the material and understand what is being asked of him. We paused at the end of the first unit to reflect on how it was going and he said that he felt he would have struggled without me but can see already that he is starting to better grasp what is being asked of him which is what I’ve been helping to de-code. If it carries on like this then I think it will go well and he may well continue with further study.
I’m sure I have much more to say to catch up, but this is a start and I’ll try hard to come back soon.