Mark recently wrote a few posts about his experience at uni, and I thought I’d do my take on not going to uni and what I did. Around this time 6 years ago, I found out I hadn’t gotten into the university I’d chosen. I was in Magaluf at the …
Learning to learn I’ve always been bad at learning new things. I’m awful in exam situations, and I struggle to take in new things when people are explaining them to me. I would speak to my tutors, ask for help, go to the library, but nothing really worked for me. …
It IS a shock to the system As much as I enjoyed being away from home, University life is a real shock to the system. I soon realised that the people who were my “life long” friends from back home, were no longer part of my life. I tried to …
“Any plans on having anymore kids?” “Oh wouldn’t Grayson be a wonderful big brother” “You’re married now, shouldn’t you think about having kids?” “You won’t be young forever, now’s the best time” I’ve had some of the these comments (as well as others) and heard a number of people receive …
Ashleigh, This letter is coming to you from someone a whole 10 years older. Which is insane to think I was 14 that long ago. By 24 you will have gotten married and had a child, which isn’t far behind what you’d hoped would happen. Life has definitely had some …
I’ll be turning 24 this year, and so I thought an interesting post would be 24 things I’ve learnt by 24. So here we go! Being a parent is hard. I don’t think you’re ever truly prepared for how hard life can be as a parent. Having down days and …
The first few weeks… Two words. Freshers. Week. I had no idea what to expect. Of course, when you have settled in your room and got your internet up and running, you start to get information about events that are taking place. Registrations, welcome seminars, module choices, Societies, clubs, teams …
I’d never considered the fact that I was ‘estranged’ from one of my parents. I knew that we were no longer on speaking terms, and that I didn’t consider them a parent anymore. It wasn’t until I read this post that I went, “holy shit I’m estranged from one of …
The build up… It seems like only yesterday that I was preparing to go to University (something I never, ever, ever thought I would do). The truth is, it was, errr, 17 years ago. SEVENTEEN YEARS AGO! I applied for 3 Universities whilst at College. All of them to do …
It’s become a bit of a tradition for us now to go to Latitude every year, whether it’s for a day or the whole weekend. Mark and I went for the whole weekend in 2017, which is when we got engaged (and little did we know, Grayson was also chilling …