79% German and a baby bird

New Life at this w0nderful time of year, yes say hello to one of the babies in my garden currently, we shall know him as Ernie, there is naturally another baby of this species and he'll be known as Eric, so it shall be!

Yes last result is in and it was 79% for my Rundblicks German course, and I have to state considering all the pressure and disruption at the time I am genuinely over the moon at this result I anticipated around the 40% mark given the (in my opinion) standard of work I submitted.

All then feels good, I am also just one exam away from completion of the German G.C.S.E. in which I also hope to have attained a reasonable mark.

Roll on August / September for that result.

As usual onwards and upwards though I must confess at a slightly (and again in my honest opinion) slower pace.

More illness, 2008 year of ill health at least for me

Gordy Brown the Stalinist and there is so much truth in this it worries me for the future of our non stalinist nation

What a strange start to this year, two months in and twice I have been ill, I cannot begin to explain that I no longer have time for illness, but my studies are still going ahead to some degree despite all this coughing, hacking and general feeling of sickness.

I have missed yet another Online Lyceum German because simply I was just too ill.

But tonight I have managed to catch up all German GCSE homework (hausaufgaben) and also am two thirds through the Personal development which is due in soon

However I do have to catch up the Rundblicks and get on top of the Maths and I have to do it soon, so fingers crossed I am rid of this damned flu in time for it all.

Nothing else to report but will update as an when......

Maths Done, German Gcse caught up with, Rundblicks up to date

Old Harry Rocks, stunning by all accounts if captured with the sun striking off of it, I shall know maybe this year if I can visit Dorset, and if I do Pictures better than this I hope to capture.

Durdle Door, another place listed to see on my future holiday to Dorset, such amazing beauty created by the elements and rock conditions, is not life just amazing in every single sense?

A simply stunning camera is the S8000, not disimilar from my already beloved S5600 which has stood me in great stead and I shall never be parted from, but what a great upgrade this would make.

With impressive 18X zoom out, Seriously Phallic but seriously quality for wildlife photography for a low end budget, this is definitely the next camera for me.

Is there nothing I cannot do?

Well in all honesty it has been flat out at least four hours a night to play catch up and I feel like it has been a struggle.

So lesson learned is to never let things get so behind again (though not really my fault being ill etc)

But importantly I am now back on track so to speak and shall continue.

Well my youngest returns to her Uni tomorrow and My eldest is finally coming round to maybe doing her own degree in child care or such like, even My Wife is contemplating some form of education to enhance the future prospects of us all.

Thus all is ok (I never say right in case I jinx it all)

Onwards and upwards......the future looks great

Ps. The next camera aimed for is the Fuji S8000 with 18X zoom capabilities (Savings already being reassigned for it)

Simply put it is fantastic and I enclose a picture above to show that aspect of it.

Catch up why don't you and so I shall

Todays picture is somebody else's puppy Yorkie Terrier, and it's up because this breed make me smile, be it mine or somebody else's and after the christmas I had I honestly need to smile a bit..................Onwards and Upwards, but look hard at the face of the clown and you may see he is very, very tired!

Tonight heralds my completion after catching up on all my German G.C.S.E. homework.

Was I stressed about falling so far behind? Answer is a resounding yes I was.

However another job completed, Maths to follow on with now, specifically completion of the T.M.A. for MST121. I have till the 25th at the latest allowing for submission to the as of yet undefined Tutor for marking.

Other news is I have my Eczema back, however this is different (Winter itch from the sounds of it) in being I usually have it return under the arm or quite typically on the elbows. This however is something new, an almost straight line of various thickness (ranging from about 2 cm to 20cm) running from the very bottom of my ankle, to about four inches from the groin.

It is also incredibly itchy and so far has been around for three whole days in which I have scratched it red raw and to bleed.

I purchased some anti itching cream from a bemused looking pharmacist who went on to bleat my anti histamines should have prevented such an outbreak and it should not itch so much. Was it really my place to tell him I had head to toe Eczema as a kid and this was just a small glitch given no allergy I have ever had quite fits the norm.

So ok I now have this red raw line of itchy painful blisters which I honestly hate with a passion, however if this is the worst then I can not complain, just keep applying the lotions and hopefully it will go soon god willing!

No other educational updates at this moment but as they come in so shall I update this blog

German G.C.S.E. a go go

Deutschland, Deutschland über alles, Über alles in der Welt....................

Well today I received a booklet with what is expected we all should know by the time of the exams .....a mere 20 weeks away now


And yup there is a whole heap of words & Grammar I confess to knowing nothing about


Am I panicked ?

Yes and No, Yes because I have yet to actually do such an exam since I was at school, No because what is the worst that can happen.......I fail......if thats what happens I resit next year


I believe I can do well at this and I hope I succeed but obviously I will not know till I reach that point of testing, I think the booklet just scared me a tad


oh well Onwards and onwards and onwards and then upwards.........so it must be.

And so it begins anew

First time for my Shemagh wearing in a long time, watch out Osama, we may be a coming.

Seriously though, another day passes and yet I trundle into another course, thus begins Rundblick's German

which should run happily and contentedly alongside My German G.C.S.E. Hey who ever said running two horses in the same race wasn't the best way forward?

I do not know, but I'd wager he'd/she'd be a feeling a fool now huh

anyway thats the state of affairs to date, tomorrow comes the actual posting of my final T.M.A.

it all happens soon I think

till then

updates as they happen...............

Forum Headaches, T.M.A. submission and German

One of Two Badgers I saw whilst at a hide for watching them, simply brilliant creatures and I love them to bits, hence the photo.

It is all go, about two weeks and I abseil down that building

just sat here and hopefully finished my T.M.A. 04 (yup last one) to a degree that lets me pass M.U.120 FINALLY

got yet another 'last' I.T.Q. to complete tomorrow and also tomorrow is my second G.C.S.E.German and the first one last week was spot on, I remembered something at long last

And then onto my forum, what does one do when one is so completely sick to death of witnessing the demise of your land, people and culture to alien and left wing forces that it drains the soul from one

then have those who do not know tell you how it is according to the party line????!!! well for one thing its entrenched me to simply go ahead and join the Conservative party lock stock and barrel and if I can work my way through so I can change something within the framework of politics

thus begins a plan of action fermenting itself in my head even as I type and why not, if smiley toss pot Blair and fat useless turd Prescott plus non entity wishing he was Blair Brown can get into power it only takes the willingness and who knows

Maybe I can see England and Britain returned to the English and British respectively

anyway enough of it all, onwards and decidedly upwards

Nearly done I.T.Q. possibly..;-D

I should have a badge just like this sewn into my T-shirt

Well here I sit at college in the I.T.Q. suite and like all good super hero's I stand (well ok I'm sitting) cape wafting in the breeze (erm.......) and I in a deep heroic type of voice utter the monumental words......."MY WORK HERE IS DONE!!!!"

And it very very very nearly is just awaiting a 'professional talk' and honestly beyond getting a job as a cleaner of keyboards here I cannot see any more to be done.



Which in reality is good, I have achieved another 'thing' and tomorrow starts my German G.C.S.E which I have to devote this I.T.Q. part of my brain to.



So what for the future using I.T. skills, well I consider the educational path I am on as being somewhat one which will need I.T. as a standard, but how far should I take it? That is the question?



And one I will update as and when......................just like everything else I guess



*raises imaginary glass in salute at self achievement



This is all good and hopefully it will remain this way for a long time, Education..........it most definitely is a huge deal in life, I just cannot shake the question out of my head "why did I not do this before?"



But as the believer in 'fate' I was clearly not meant to. And we will leave it there for now.

Tommorow, it arrived

Start Point Lighthouse
which was worth the visit

Me just catching a breather on the way to Start Point Lighthouse, it was a beautiful day out

And lo said the highest of the high, it is good and it was............................


Seriously all is sweet, the blues are past me, the memories of those gone now sated for another year, I step boldly forward and I'm ready for the next chapter of My life


and so here is the update so far

1) Attended Tutorial for Maths now head fully round the things I found hard, I am rolling baby yeah.

2) Second to last I.T.Q. today, all results brilliant and I am just now await my project assessment and we are done, finite, now sit and wait a few months for the cert which I have earned.

3) Not long now till the German G.C.S.E. I can not wait to start using Ich verstehe nicht till the exam....;-D


Anyway the bold move forward and so I am slowly returning to my former self (mentally at least) thus it is no shock that I will be throwing myself with rope off a 120 foot building in the name of charity, abseiling for charity, I could think of nothing else I would have doctors telling me I should not be doing

No fear, except maybe there is just a little, which just equates to me feeling so alive again

Update done, next one as an when C.M.A. 44 due in on the 13th

Next Tutorial for Maths is the 19th

oh yeah positive a go go

Nothing Happened

Me at the Flamstead Scarecrow Festival, Doing my bit for predictability in photos

Well after getting over the shock of the last T.M.A. I am now sat waiting Tutor help for the up and coming C.M.A. and beyond that also awaiting the start of the German G.C.S.E.

and thats it


still I am enjoying a reasonable holiday period which is chilling me, and that can only be good

Updates as and when

T.M.A.03 Result

A picture I took a while back, but it reminds me whilst things are way off in the distance, it is only ever really a few steps before they are suddenly upon you.

Well 45% which I assumed was simply tragic!!!!!


But then I read the Tutors accompanying notes, which basically said I'd done actually ok in line with others given the difficulty of this specific T.M.A.

So whilst I am honestly kicking myself for not doing far far better

At least I did what I could and scored ok enough to still pass this course (with a substitution of T.m.a.s I can still achieve a decent score overall)

So in summary, a little disappointed, alot to be rediscussed at the next tutorial so what I failed on actually gets inside my brain

But I am still on course to pass and shall hopefully fly through the next (And last) T.M.A. and remaining two C.M.A's

All thus is still sweet, Updates as usual when I know

p.s. Will be paying for my German G.C.S.E. on Monday, so another course ready to go

New Course, am I mad or just going for it

Here is a 'borrowed' picture of a baby Badger and Fox, it just took my eye so I hope I have not broken copyright laws etc, but this is too cute to be missed, it also brings me to mind that it will soon be time to head back to watch badgers at TEWIN ORCHARD, I cannot wait.

Well just because it is cool he is a cheeky furry little creature from the other day that I just managed to capture with the camera

Well sat here the other day reflecting on the fact it is but five weeks worth of Intermediate German left before thats it, done and dusted and then it will be the German G.C.S.E. which is honestly very daunting but I have to believe very do-able.

And so what did I also do, well I signed up for the OU Languages Course too, hey might as well go for another degree, take One degree into the shower, NO not me try Two for size!

Anyway thats is where we are, I.T.Q. still proceeding, a small break from German at college because of the half term, and finally the Maths I am still waiting to hear about BUT hopefully it is ok.

No Garden project as of yet, weather and finances have stopped it fully sadly.

And Sailing is booked for Wednesday, but again dependent upon the weather

So that is all for now, next update should be the TMA 02 results

Till then then.

Last begginers German course ......

Next Tuesday the beginners course is over and done with

and so what have I achieved through it?

Well honestly 9 weeks into it I can read 99% of what we have covered and totally understand it

I can possibly repeat back without an aid such as a note 50% of what we have covered

I admit to struggling a bit with some of the verbs and in what grammatical context they are used, but i am getting it slowly

and after all do not let it get beyond anybody ITS JUST 9 WEEKS FFS

So ok, what is next?

Well currently awaiting a cheque to clear in my wondrous bank and then I will pay up for my next German course, German Intermediate level

after that possibly a GCSE...and then who knows

should do ok, just got to get in more practice and have a little more faith

AS PER USUAL ONWARDS AND UPWARDS it is then