Botanical blunderings on a budget - good life starts here.

lucielle

Well done to your DS.
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Pippilongstocking

Thank you all

He's seemingly a bit grumpy (dd told me) but there you go, can't please some folk. Its hard for him, hes convinced hes not as bright as the rest of us - lol - he's very bright, he just doesn't work as much!

Home to answer a call for more work next week, YAY. Although the post I stand in for has been down graded (salary wise) to £6.17 an hour (from £9 something) due to rejigging and cuts, now thats not great, but money is money at the end of the day. I said yup to being available for extra hours next week

Done watering etc at work, got some extra plants the chap had left out for me and picked a bit of salad and some cut flowers (cornflowers) from my polytunnel plant experiment.

Going to do some gardening here inbetween the showers or might clear out the potting shed, which is a pigsty of epic proportions.

Cheri you're right, sometimes we push ourselves quite hard don't we. AND I have to say what a bunch of perfectionists we are, I was the same wasn't I, not pleased to get this qualification because it wasn't as high as I wanted - lol clearly we're all very alike in lots of ways!

KC glad you've got damsons, miniture plums - I like rowan jelly, will do some later in the year when ours get ripe! I'm still making elderflower cordial, although a comment on my blog (?) suggested you can make a similar cordial with meadowsweet - which we've got up both sides of the track abundantly.

Uni, he's wanting to go to uni - to do something sceincey or geography based - but tbh he doesn't know, he's all panicked about his grades as he can't go to either of the big universities with the grades he's currently got, but he could go to other less 'old/posh/hard to get into unis'

TBH I don't know if uni's for him, but he's no idea what else he wants to do, we'll have to figure that out over the next year. His friend is now left and is training to be a blacksmith, but ds has no idea what he wants to do!

Right, I must do some work, well other work anyway.....................................

ps peedie found a bone at work, he's a happy boy! Although he doesn't seem to be a fan of watering or being in the tunnel - once he'd found a bone, from the gardener (who's away) dog - he was most impressed with himself!

lucielle

LOL at Peedie
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boredofbeingathome

Well done to DS, it isn't easy at times is it? I am sure he will see exactly how well he has done and stop beating himself up about it!

Karmacat

Ouch for the hourly rate, Pippi - but as you say, money's money. It might end up being quite a difficult decision as to whether its worthwhile for you to take it

As to sciencey degrees not at the big two - I know Hull University's chemistry department is doing ground-breaking research - it doesn't sound glamourous, but some of the stuff thats going on there could change medical provisions for everyone in another 10 years or so.

Blacksmithing is important too, obviously - its a question of what he wants, isn't it (don't know if your DS is dyslexic too, but the support that Hull gives to dyslexics is amazing - CDs and printed notes of all lectures, which is just what I can remember from about 5 years ago).


ETA - you do rowan jelly! Its just stopped raining here, and I'm off to take a photo of the damson tree and compare it to whats online.

redsquirrel80

Hmm I tried some meadowsweet at a herbal talk I went to the other month.. not too keen personally but I believe it has some great medicinal qualities (can't remember what they are though!)

I don't know how you're meant to know what you want to do when you leave school.. had this conversation with a colleague the other day and we both agreed we still don't know what we want to do when we grow up.. and she's a couple of years from retirement!

Cheery_Daff

I reckon the best careers advice is to figure out what you love doing, and do it as much as possible til someone pays you for it And don't be knocking Hull! Mr Daffs is from there and I'm learning to love it too

(and I love the smell of meadowsweet, never tasted it though!)

Lol at Peedie

Karmacat

Cheery, its the opposite of knocking - the rep isn't great, but the Chemistry department is one of the top in the country, truly!


And it was at Hull that I first tasted Yorkshire curd ..... dreams .....

redsquirrel80

I once had a date with a man from Hull.. he had a sports car and a yacht.. not that that's relevant :rotfl:

Karmacat

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: not awfully relevant, but impressive, somehow :j