Sunday, 19 April 2015

The Waiting Game.



The Waiting Game.

All that pain of having people traipse in and out of my house for almost two years is just slightly more painful than the waiting game. Paperwork, lawyers and no guarantee makes life mildly less painful. The slow pack is much more inconvenient than the pack the whole house in three days.  Too much time to sort, to group, to catalog, to unclutter – when will it end?

Here is a few websites to help you through the pain.




My preferred packing method is up and out in less than a week.  Of course the charity shops love it when I slow pack because I always squeeze in a bit more decluttering (than when I fast pack) along the way (although I could do a lot more – I have a lot of stuff). 

But this is not a straight move.  This is a move into temporary (very small) accommodations while continuing to work and look for a new house a few hundred miles north. It means there will be a lot of tiring weekends to look forward too.

Even more wearing on the nerves, is trying to keep out that which is, may or might be needed during our gypsy days (ahem I mean months) between homes.  It would be so much easier to just move from one house to another but as it is it is not going to happen. So, on we tread into a future that is as full of opportunities as I can stuff it.

 And I will survive this too.


 
 
 

Friday, 3 April 2015

MOOCS, MOOCS, MOOCS, Hurray for MOOCS!


 

Having lived in England for the past ten years my brain has been starved for learning. Oh I have been learning the culture and the new language but I mean real in class learning.  They have excellent education here but nothing affordable for the people interested in a class here or a class there. My job is mind numbingly boring which doesn’t help either.

What I discovered to fill this space is MOOCs – Massive Open Online Courses and they are FREE! You can take them free or pay a nominal fee to receive the credits toward your degree if they are applicable to it.  Either way I am learning again and I can not express how delightful it is to be doing that again.
Here are just a few places to find Massive Open Online Courses - Free!