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Busy, Busy, Busy

04/25/09 02:29:55 | 5 Comments

This week has been a really strange one as I have been pottering back and forth between home, my Nieces and my Daughters. Not really knowing which house I will decide to sleep in each day until virtually the last minute.

My Sarah is moving on or around next weekend and of course there is a lot to do getting her all organised for that. On top of that she had to have a visit to the hospital for x-rays and MRI scans. This is for her knee. Many of us have hereditary "squidgy"...

British Sign Lanuage Test (102)

04/01/09 12:06:46 | 11 Comments

I have just arrived back after taking my 2nd of 3 sign language tests that I must take this year. I have to say that it was pretty horrific.

As with the other test it was in front of a video and the video is then sent off to the examiners. It will be several weeks before we get the results back.

The 3 subjects we were allowed to choose from were.

The weather
About where we live
And about our hobbies and interests

I chose hobbies and interests. I...

Let's Play Catch Up

03/08/09 04:22:33 | 4 Comments

I haven't had time to sit and write a blog for a few days. I've had plenty of thoughts of bits I could have written about but never did get around to sitting down and blogging them. Maybe that was for the best as this blog is getting decidedly grumpy. So much so that I thought about changing it's name to Grumpy Old Woman, lol.

But now while I sit here with my very late breakfast of marmite toast and a cup of tea, and before I go jump in the shower and start my day for real...

I Passed the 101 for Sign Language

02/01/09 09:31:50 | 6 Comments

This is just a quicky to let all that were interested, know that I received a letter yesterday from the Education Department to say I had passed my first Sign Language test with top marks.

The highest score one could get was 18 and that's exactly what I got. Both my Daughter Sarah and GG Daughter Aimee also got the highest marks.

I would have been very disappointed if I had even dropped by one mark.

The next test, 102, will be during the second week of March. ...

New Year Resolutions.

12/29/08 07:17:48 | 10 Comments

For what it's worth here are my New Year Resolutions for 2009. I wonder just how many I will stick to.

1) Instead of getting straight out of bed and on to the computer to have my first cup of tea in the mornings I am going to turn the news on the TV and sit in front of that instead. That way I will actually get up and do something as soon as I have had my tea instead of ending up for a couple of hours still playing on the web. I will then not get on the comp until I have at least...

Sign Language Test 101

12/10/08 13:09:29 | 18 Comments

I had my first Sign Language test this evening. It's called the 101 because in the first year we have 3 tests. The 102 will be in end February/beginning of March and the 103 in May. Then we will break up for the Summer.

I am rather scared that not continuing it during the summer break I will forget all that I have learned but.........

This evening for the test there arrived a representative from the Dorset Education Authority to over see that the tests were being carried...

Mock Sign Language Test Next Week

11/26/08 17:33:18 | 0 Comments

Next week we have our mock test ready for the real thing the week after.� This will be the first of three tests that we will have in this first year.

Our tutor has made a video for us running through what the test will consist of.� He is acting out the part of both himself and one of us.

Looking one way he is himself and he swings around when is acting as one of us students.

To pass the test we have to have 15 points out of 18.

A Test in 3 Weeks

11/19/08 15:54:17 | 2 Comments

Wow, only 3 weeks away from my first British Sign Language test. We have a total of 3 tests during the first year.

The first test covers as follows

How to meet and greet someone, asking how they are and telling them how you are. How ask for someones name and give yours. Discuss the weather, now, today, yesterday, maybe tomorrow, next week, etc, etc. Discuss journeys, where you were going, how long it took, how you traveled, was the journey good or bad. Ask and...

Making Friends

10/29/08 04:43:04 | 0 Comments

Well, I'm making a good start on rule 6 of "Things to do now that you're retired". Making friends.

In actual fact I am killing two birds with one stone, or maybe even three when one comes to think of it.

Getting out and about
Learning a new language
Making friends

For many years now my family have been my sole...

Maybe Getting a New Cycle

10/29/08 04:39:28 | 0 Comments

I'm not sure yet whether to spend money on a new cycle.

I have my electric tricycle but I only use that for toodling back and forth visiting the family and for shopping. When visiting the family it's so easy just to put my little dog in his basket on the back and he can come everywhere with me. For shopping it means that I can fill up the dog's basket, the basket on the front and if I am going to get quite a bit with an extra napsack on my back I can carry a full weeks...

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