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Here comes the summer
Posted Jun 20, 2005
Well, got my results - passed the year with a very respectable 2:1 over all and finally have spare time to watch some TV without suffering from skipping-study-guilt for the first time in ages.
So what happens?
1. Dr Who finished on Saturday (and *what* a finish - though I will definitely miss CE as The Doctor 
);
2. Smallville finished tonight (with the usual glut of cliff-hangers in the hope that this will keep it's franchise going for another season )
3. Almost everyone I know is discussing reality TV (BB6, et al), including my Mum-in-law who has somehow got hooked on Celebrity Love Island (she's 77 for heaven's sake! 
)
D'oh! 
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Battle won
Posted May 24, 2005
It was so worthwhile doing battle with the translation revision; I got into the exam on Saturday morning, looked at the paper and couldn't help grinning. Everything I saw on the paper was instantly translateable in my head! Finished the exam, complete with explanatory footnotes for some of the translation choices made (I disagreed with some of the recommended translations) with time to spare.
I wish I felt more confident about tomorrow's exam though. It's history - which I love, but I don't feel confident that I can remember enough to actually write 3 essays in the exam; it usually takes me a few days to write an essay that I'm happy with. Guess I'll just have to wait and see... 
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Battle won
Posted May 24, 2005
It was so worthwhile doing battle with the translation revision; I got into the exam on Saturday morning, looked at the paper and couldn't help grinning. Everything I saw on the paper was instantly translateable in my head! Finished the exam, complete with explanatory footnotes for some of the translation choices made (I disagreed with some of the recommended translations) with time to spare.
I wish I felt more confident about tomorrow's exam though. It's history - which I love, but I don't feel confident that I can remember enough to actually write 3 essays in the exam; it usually takes me a few days to write an essay that I'm happy with. Guess I'll just have to wait and see... 
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I so don't need this.
Posted May 18, 2005
Couple of weekends ago hubby noticed a wet patch on the side of the house when he was dragging the lawnmower round to the back garden. (Note - we live on a steep hill, so part of the side of our house is what would be underground on a normal house).
We were worried that there might be a bit of a leak from somewhere and it may have been happening for a few months since we don't use the path at the side of the house very often (hardly at all in winter) so called a housing maintenance company to come and sort it out.
Three blokes arrived at about 8 this morning and cut a 'trap' in my kitchen floor. Bad enough, one might think, but what they found was worse... about 4 inches of standing water in the foundations underneath my kitchen - but at least it's 'fresh' water rather than waste. 
Despite the trap being cut precisely where we heard dripping, they were unable to find the leak. Our kitchen was modified at some point since the house was built and before we bought it, and we discovered there's a sub-floor wall part way along supporting the boards, so it was decided the leak must be behind that. All my dining furniture has been shifted out of the kitchen into various other bits of the ground floor and another trap cut... only to find no leak and yet another supporting wall bisecting the under floor area... which caused the need for yet *another* trap.
The main bloke has just come in and said he can't find the leak at all, has gone to fetch his wellies and will be crawling about in the sub-floor area of my house til he does (don't envy him one bit!) and its likely to be in the part of the kitchen where they cut the first trap. 
My kitchen is in complete turmoil, with holes and torn up floor boards all over the place. I haven't had any breakfast and can't even get in to make a cuppa 
. And my 1st exam is on Saturday morning, and I can't concentrate.
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Doing Battle
Posted May 12, 2005
Nu we sculon herigean heofonrices Weard,
Meotodes meahte ond his modgeþanc,
weorc Wuldorfæder, swa he wundra gehwæs,
ece Drihten, or onstealde.
He ærest sceop eorðan bearnum
heofon to hrofe, halig Scyppend.
þa middangeard monncynnes Weard,
ece Drihten, æfter teode
firum foldan, Frea ælmihtig.
Bl**dy Bede; bl**dy Cædmon. S*dding Old English translation exam practice.
I give up!!!
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