COLLEGE COURSES

Posted by Debbie Atkinson on May 27, 2008 8:04 AM

Today I start a maths course at Southport college. I hated maths at school but now that I have mastered (almost) the most killerish of the killer sudokus I feel ready to forget the past and move on. While lying on the Arcadia’s sundeck I listened (in between falling asleep) to ‘In Our Time’ podcasts - one was all about antimatter and how maths equations can tell us more about nature than we already know - deep stuff when all around me were sipping cocktails and playing quoits. So this morning I begin to re-learn maths. I wonder if I’ve got enough years left to get onto antimatter. I told the artist son that the course lasts for six weeks and he’s told me to take plenty to eat and drink.

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COLLEGE COURSES

Posted by Debbie Atkinson on May 27, 2008 8:04 AM

Today I start a maths course at Southport college. I hated maths at school but now that I have mastered (almost) the most killerish of the killer sudokus I feel ready to forget the past and move on. While lying on the Arcadia’s sundeck I listened (in between falling asleep) to ‘In Our Time’ podcasts - one was all about antimatter and how maths equations can tell us more about nature than we already know - deep stuff when all around me were sipping cocktails and playing quoits. So this morning I begin to re-learn maths. I wonder if I’ve got enough years left to get onto antimatter. I told the artist son that the course lasts for six weeks and he’s told me to take plenty to eat and drink.

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HANGING BASKETS

Posted by Debbie Atkinson on May 27, 2008 7:57 AM

Keep this to yourself but I have discovered the most beautiful hanging baskets ever - at 1970s' prices! £25 (some at £15, £17 and £20 too) for a big wire basket packed to the brim with healthy plants, all in bud and ready to give a glorious summer display. Nip down quickly if you're looking for a basket, to Scarisbrick Nurseries - Jacksmere Lane. Now all I've got to do is wait for the gales to die down and the torrential rain to ease off and then I can put them up.

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HANGING BASKETS

Posted by Debbie Atkinson on May 27, 2008 7:57 AM

Keep this to yourself but I have discovered the most beautiful hanging baskets ever - at 1970s' prices! £25 (some at £15, £17 and £20 too) for a big wire basket packed to the brim with healthy plants, all in bud and ready to give a glorious summer display. Nip down quickly if you're looking for a basket, to Scarisbrick Nurseries - Jacksmere Lane. Now all I've got to do is wait for the gales to die down and the torrential rain to ease off and then I can put them up.

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HANGING BASKETS

Posted by Debbie Atkinson on May 27, 2008 7:57 AM

Keep this to yourself but I have discovered the most beautiful hanging baskets ever - at 1970s' prices! £25 (some at £15, £17 and £20 too) for a big wire basket packed to the brim with healthy plants, all in bud and ready to give a glorious summer display. Nip down quickly if you're looking for a basket, to Scarisbrick Nurseries - Jacksmere Lane. Now all I've got to do is wait for the gales to die down and the torrential rain to ease off and then I can put them up.

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THE CRUISE

Posted by Debbie Atkinson on May 23, 2008 7:24 AM

16 days is definitely too long to be away from home - especially when you’re a control freak. During our cruise the artist son and his wife discovered that they’re having a baby boy (Oscar); our daughter celebrated her birthday and the London son started a new job. Anyway, we’re back now - to grass a foot high and mounds and mounds of washing and ironing.

The cruise was good although as we were swaying through grey mist, grey skies and grey sea for two solid days we were not amused by Sky News reports that the UK was basking in the hottest May weather on record. Our fellow cruisers were not in the first flush of youth - or the second or third come to that - in fact I believe there were at least two deaths on board during the 16 days we were away. On our car journey home we stopped at a motorway service station and my husband just kept repeating ” doesn’t everyone look young”. Institutionalised is the word that springs to mind.

We did see some lovely places though

Split

Gibraltar

venice

we had some lovely meals

saw some beautiful sunsets

and posed for lots of photos

and we saw the QE2 so many times that I was getting confused about which ship I should be boarding

The ports of call were Cadiz, Cephalonia, Dubrovnik, Venice, Split, Corfu and Gibraltar and if you're off on a cruise and want any info on any of those ports leave a comment and if I can help you I will. As for the cruise - if you're going on a P&O cruise for the first time make sure you take a decent mirror with you - all the mirrors on the boats are smokey grey and so are the windows so you could be walking round with eyebrows that should have been plucked weeks ago and you'd never know! Our boat was the Arcadia and again, if you'd like any info on that let me know.

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