Botanical blunderings on a budget - good life starts here.

Kittikins

The flights are booked - for the end of May next year!! Feels very exciting to be planning that far ahead with OH, and luckily I put them on an interest-free credit card til the end of the year.

DD has told me that she has a little list of places she'd like to visit in the world....I think the pocket money is going to need to be saved up big-time!

Pippilongstocking

Yay chaps - just disovered I'm on the homepage for my old course (not just me) but it was very wierd seeing myself online................iyswim?

Hope you're all grand

Ithink I might have spied a few almost ripe blackberries up the hill, in the heather and the gorse, I'm going to investigate properly tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Angela68

Gosh, your thread did make me smile, I soooo know the feeling! I was so shattered and broke when I finished my studies, that I was too tired to start work.
You do not say the level or discipline in which you have been studying but the Open Uni are often looking for Tutors...??? Alternately, there are sites which match you up to a student in need of tutoring if that would help - although you said you are in Scotland that should be no barrier to e-learning.
Best of luck with the garden/post-doc/ etc etc.
Angela

vl2588

Been eating blackberries at motorway balancing ponds today, yummy!

CONGRATS on the thesis 'done and dusting' Pippi

Greying_Pilgrim

Hey Pippi - Congratulations re the thesis finalising - and I love the slap up celebrations - absolutely smashing!

I forgot to say, well done also for posting on RJ's blog - I spied your recycling post. The 'geographically specific' angle to the need to RR&R is very important too. I heard an interview with the round the world yachtswoman, Dame Elen McArthur who said that she was going to focus her future on the need for sustainability. She obviously saw lots of good & bad consequences of waste, being alone in the world's oceans, but also she has first hand experience at making sure that everything 'on board' was either absolutely essential, or multifunctional - or better yet both! We could probably learn alot from yachtfolk - and astronauts!

By the way, did you spy Essex Hebridean's recyling blog post - inspired by, and credited to, your good self?

We're gonna get the world wombling - all together now...

"Underground, overground............."

Greying

starnac

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

- all together now...

"Underground, overground............."

Greying

oh greying i'll be singing that all evening now :eek:

gilligansyle

Popping by to add my congrats!

Greying_Pilgrim

Starnac - my apologies, but it is a cheerful little ditty isn't it? Hey, I know we've talked about Hugh F-W on Pippi's thread before (sorry Pippi) I see he has a new book out - and I think a TV series is scheduled for Autumn - subject = vegetables.

Greying

starnac

i loved the wombles when I was a kid. although I always thought the song went "wombles of wimbledon *comma* common are we" so I thought everyone from wimbledon were common. I didn't realise there was actually no break and actually goes "wombles of wimbledon common are we". I didn't know wimbledon had a common

PS I love HF-W

Pippilongstocking

Oh I'm so full of cauli cheese (insert seal picture)

Ok lots on here....I'll try keep up.

Greying I haven't seen EH 's pst I'll off and look :-) yay more womble action

Starnac I thought they recycled 'commoners' I first saw a bad copy/broadcast abroad.....!

Greying, and in fact everyone. This is an MSE commune, no hijacking ever considered :-)

Ace news re h-ferny-whotsit will watch out for that

Gilligan, thank you not cantered about duaries lately coldy, distracted and bit down, hope you are good!!!!

Vl how on earth do you balance ponds on a motorway?.... Thank for congrats, more to you however, your job starts soon! Yy! I'm still only a bit self employed ........xx


Angela- welcome, um I don't feel rich, post grad exhaustion and poverty I know very well, but I've never thought of doing that, I guess I'll give it a google - thanks!

And lt, hangs head in shame we've had heating on from early sept for a bit when needed, it's <8 degrees here .......