Day 299: Sunday Productivity

“Relax…it’s Sunday…”

It has been a fairly productive day for a Sunday – which generally should involve relaxing, reading and not doing much else! Whilst William and Buddy made up the shelving for the shed..

I rearranged the kitchen to make it a bit more spacious – and clean! I then messed it all up by doing roast lamb for dinner and baking lots of cookies which turned out as slabs instead of cookie sized biscuits – but it was worth it.

The only trouble is when you bake something you soon get sick of it – we’re left with around 30 cookies and everyone is either too far away to come get them or out the country! Any takers…?

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Day 205: News Day

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston Churchill

Such an exciting day!  I popped onto facebook mid-morning to see if there was any talk of uni results and lo and behold, they were out! Hands shaking so much , I logged into the Uni website which took forever and scrolled down to my results… I got the Level Two and Level Three passes for this double year that I needed to get my 2.1… Officially, I now own a Bachelor of Science Honours Degree in Social Policy and Criminology 2.1!!!!!!!

So after that amazing news, we then battled a bit more with the house builders to finally get them to announce dates for completion and they confirmed that we should be able to have our ‘new home demonstration’ next Thursday and collect the keys!  We couldn’t resist a very quick peek…

We had a celebratory dinner at The Harvester in honour of exam results and the end of four long years of self study and self motiviation. Sadly on the way we passed a car fire, hoping that everyone got out okay and it seems they did, but the below was snapped by William!

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