Aren't the trains on strike in Cambridge?

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Not all trains in Cambridge are National Express : the train I usually use to get there is run by First Capital Connect

Ah right, I see

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Maybe, I wouldn't know as we got off the stop before. The train from Cambridge to Ely was fine yesterday though, so it must just not be National Express.

Oh my - did it disturb the piece you were playing or did you keep going regardless ;-) Did it add light and shade to your performance?

I was sitting with friends in the beautiful town of Kecskemét tonight, eating ice-creams in 29 degrees at 11pm, when two men walked past, both with a ferret on a lead...

How could you put a ferret on a lead, and what is a lead?

Hope i dont have nightmares after the tour tonight

I often see people doing the same, although, in my town.

Doing what?

It depends how tame the ferret is. A lead is a leash.

Sorry, I should have said leash!

I didn't realise ferret-walking was such a common occurrence - it was certainly a new experience for me!!

I got woken from my drunken sleep this morning by bell ringers going crazy... I reckon h_c tracked me down out of spite You weren't in Saffron Walden this morning were you, h_c?

What an amazing night I had at the concert

Oh it was a leash.

I wish I could get my hands on the person who wrote the virus which infected my laptop, causing me to have to wipe the hard drive and reinstall the operating system and all my programs and data, wasting hours and hours of time....

Grrr.

<- One HG being possessed of exceeding great miffment!

What do you call a dog with no tongue?

"Smelly Balls"

Night night forum

Time for tea.

Looks like the Test will end as a draw...

I get the feeling my lesson will go badly tonight seeing as I went to two parties last week and ended up completely wasted Saturday night... The brain cells containing everything I learned the week before have probably been decimated by alcohol...

tut tut

I'm having a month of healthy living now... primarily to actually get some work/study done and secondly to save some cash!

*wonders how long it will last*

I've done 3 months of no alcohol before (a few times actually) It can be quite difficult if there are lots of work functions going on though; free drink + food is always hard to turn down!

You're probably right, but I'll at least give it a go. I even had salad and fruit juice for lunch and I haven't touched the vending machines once today!

My darling girlfriend gave me two endearlingly diminutive things of aftershave last weekend. One is about half the size of the other, yet the bigger one is called xxxx Weekend. I cannot fathom; there are more weekdays than weekend days, and thus is it unorthodox of me to think that the weekend variety might be less generous in quantity?

It's just a name, twonk.

Off to my lesson in a bit... my brain isn't working.. oh dear I'm supposed to have got better, not worse since last week!

i'm sure it won't be too bad

Why am I suddenly exhausted?!?

I got 10 hours sleep last night and haven't exactly been doing anything tiring today!

5 pages done

The ladybirds have gone for the day, but will probably return again tomorrow

Certainly had less of them today than at the weekend...

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hello-cello's signature says that he likes geography coursework.

That's not SO bad. A little strange, but hey ho.

What would be weird, is someone liking IT coursework. If any of my friends admitted to that, I'd query about it over and over, then eventually disown them.

It's a good job I don't teach IT, then, isn't it.

You teach geography?!

Oops

Geography's great!!!!!

Like a lot of subjects, Geography isn't really the same at degree level as it is in school, and I teach in the university sector.

I can remember teasing geography friends at uni that it was a degree in colouring in - but it did sound a lot more interesting at uni level than school teachers managed to make it!

Probably a lot more interesting at degree level...

Sorry, I wrote a whole section about how we don't do our work.

But then I decided that was rude, and defacing the subject, so deleted it

I just hope it gets more interesting next year.

The thing is though, we have it right have music most of the time, so we come from music buzzing after a performance, or learning something new, or a brain teaser with naming notes/transposing/key signatures etc.

Then we come to geography (funnily enough, my friend groups are the same in geography and music) and we sit down. The teacher comes in, and says "Today we're going to learn about the different types of erosion!!!!"

And step by step, we go through the same things we did in year 8, hydraulic action, attrition, abrasion etc. We do the hand gestures to describe the way a rock erodes "Crack, cave, arch, stack, stump, wave-cut-platform"

Awww! I loved geography at GCSE, and I wish I'd taken it to A-Level, but it clashed with maths But anyway, we spent the whole time doing projects and presentations, and I won a prize once for the best presentation about Italy because I brought in loads of Italian food that my mum had made for the class to sample Obviously the prize had nothing to do with my presentation skills...

I love Geography! I'm not doing it for A level though, I wanted to take loads of subjects, but we can only do five maximum! I had a really good teacher for GCSE, although he did pressure me slightly just before the exam saying "remember Jacob, nothing less than an A please, you should be getting an A*!" He was saying this to everyone as they went in, reminding them of their target grades! My favourite part of geography was the physical stuff eg. stuff about waterfalls, cliffs, wave cut platforms, caves, spits etc!

Projects and presentations? Wow, that sounds like heaven compared to what we do.

The only thing is though, A level geography DOES sound fun! And it has nothing whatsoever at all to do with the fact that there's a trip to Ghana, and a trip to Iceland...

Oooh Iceland That sounds fab! Hmmph - the only school trip I went on this year was a biology field trip to a national park, where we stood thigh-deep in a river to collect...well...stuff and we had to stay in tents (hate camping ) Ahh! Avoid field trips at all costs!
(But unoffical school trips are perfectly acceptable - eg. when it snowed, no-one in my village could get to school, so we all went sledging in our games kits Then we went back to school the next week, and realised it probably wasn't the smartest move to advertise the fact that we hadn't gone to school for 4 days!

*Fondly remembers coloring in lots of stuff in Geography whilst at School...*

Do you get more coloring pens at uni then?

They honestly can't be as bad as our geography trips...

In year 7, we went to Bluewater and our local town. We recorded each type of shop, and then had to think of a questionaire to ask the shoppers at each place. The thing is though, there were about 200 of us there, on the same day, at the same time, swarming around the shoppers asking them pointless, instrusive questions "why do you shop here? how did you get here?" and each shopper had probably been approached at least 5 times, so just glared at us.

Then in year 8, we went to a country park, and walked over fields filled with sheep ######, for miles and miles, before eventually coming to rest on a rainy day on a beach for an hour to eat lunch, then walking back.

But the year 9 trip was an art trip, so we went to the National Portrait Gallery, which was AMAZZINGG!

That has given me a flashback to doing my geography coursework in the (very) late 80s. A comparison of the central business districts of a 1st and 2nd order settlement (Worcester and Kidderminster). Everyone had to do the Worcester part, little miss obsessive decided to expand it. I was going to do my 2nd project on the water flow of the stream in the village I lived in but was persuaded that I'd already done enough (you could submit 1 long or 2 short pieces of coursework). My main conclusion was that the CBD in both towns was centred on Marks & Sparks - I never managed to get enough data to establish whether they sited their shops in the centre or the centre shifted towards their shops.

My geography teacher did try to convince me to do A level saying that I could save myself a lot of work by submitting the same project. I think he got this wrong - the coursework was the thing that appealed to me most about geography.

If hello_cello wishes to win me in the forum raffle, his ticket must have a '0' or a '5' on the end...

What are the chances of him getting a '0' or a '5' anyway noodle?...

andante_in_c's signature :

My Uncle made me feel wanted earlier... he rang and i told him only i was in... he said 'thats ok, i dont mind talking to you'

The forum is being a bit slow this morning...

Never mind, I can print off a pile of clarinet trios while waiting for this reply to make it online!