and it’s been a happy househould these past few days. It doesn’t escape me that I’m soon going to have to worry about university fees (other than my own). After seeing the scramble the A level students went through last week in a bid to secure their place at uni (any uni) before the new fees kick in next year. I’m not relishing when our time comes.
The Open University has just announced that they also plan to put up their fees from next September in keeping with all the other universities, and that those who registered this year will only have to pay the old fees for the next five years, as long as they’ve registered their degree of choice, so at the very least I’m glad I got in there early. I’ll just have to make sure and finish mine within that time frame, although by my calculations an OU degree will still be cheaper than a regular university; approx £5,000 for a year instead of £9,000. Great timing on my part, at the moment it’s only £1,500 for a year.
As far as work goes, just a couple of bookings this week, including one scrumptious Frenchman here on business, otherwise the phone has been quiet, as it usually is during the month of August. Not unless you count the text I received this morning; “Hello darlin’” That’s it, nothing else. Not sure what I’m supposed to do with that.
It’ll be a quiet bank holiday weekend as I make a start on my next assignment. I’m glad that the Notting Hill Carnival is going ahead, despite calls to cancel it after the recent riots. I can’t see what good that would’ve done, to effectively shut down a tradition that’s been going since before I was born, just because of some cretinous idiots. It’s been a while since I last went. You really need the stamina of a horse to last the day, the kind of stamina I no longer possess. But it’ll be fun watching it on the telly. Hope Mayor Boris has a grand time.
Happy Bank Holiday.

Wednesday’s training wasn’t so bad, but then tiredness swept over me again by Thursday. I did have a cancellation and I sent silent thanks to whichever diety might be listening that day. I did my weekend shop…and that was it the whole day. I had a three hour booking the next day with a regular client, so I used the Thursday as an excuse to conserve my energy and I finally felt better by Friday, in time for my long booking. I had another booking on Saturday afternoon for an hour and it was all I could manage. 
I think I may go ahead and start it a bit earlier than anticipated.