Autumn Fast approaching

Just yesterday,  I stood in Marks and Spencer and took this quick snapshot on my phone.  

With views of browns and blacks,  sensible shoes with a sensible grip, it can only mean one thing.  Buckle up everyone,  autumn is fast approaching!

You don't often find me blogging about fashion. It's not so much my thing.  Yet we all know what we like and don't like.  The colours this year have left me wondering.  There are so many odd greens which I find very unflattering.  Yet I'm thinking with so many Long boots*

out there (expensive but worth it!) it might be time to try on long skirts again, or even shorter ones with thick black tights and long boots.  Either way,  I do feel just a little bit sad that our summer seems to be over.

My summer has been amazing.  How was yours?  

If you followed my youtube posts and the blogs on here you will see we have had an amazing time! The weather I feel has been kind to us and definitely while we were on our camping trip.

So what lies ahead?

In a little under two weeks I start back at university (blog post to follow) and I'm both excited and extremely nervous.  Not about finding my way around or meeting new people, but the level of work that I know it takes to accomplish great results.  I definitely do not have the same opinion as many that students have an awesome life of drunkeness and sleeping in.  I will get there I'm sure but to spend such quality time with my reassuring family this summer has been really so precious.

You will find blog posts coming thick and fast (thank you to all the new readers here - you have put a massive smile on my face as the view counts just go up and up!) and I am also going to create a new blog where folks can share their own blog posts for a little extra exposure! Awesome.  Let me know if you want to be involved.

Back to the words of Autumn

Hoping that the weather will be nice (maybe a couple of days of snow - for the children you understand!) over the winter months, we all find ourselves trying to keep things going that we can look forward to.  I booked a holiday this week (blog post coming soon!) and I'm crazy excited about that! I also have a double 16th birthday celebration this coming winter! That will be fab.  

Evenings of darkness, lit by Yankee candles* and television.  Curled up under fluffy throws watching Xfactor and Eastenders.  A cute dog snoring loudly in the background....it's all to look forward to.  The best bit?  Christmas! Just around the corner, I might well get out and do all my Christmas shopping next week!

Get in touch and let me know what excites you about the changing seasons?  Or does it make you feel blue?

Much love

Louise xoxo

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First week at university-how was it?

Was the first week at university how I imagined?  To be honest, yes. Although I've a few surprises which I will share with you here as words of wisdom. 

Are you at uni? Are you a fresher?  

How has your experience been so far?  

I would love to hear from you. 

I'm so pleased to say I've met some really amazing people and the tutors/lecturers are amazing!

Wow do these guys know their stuff. 

There's not one of them who would allow bad school boy behaviour and woe betide anyone who tempts to challenge that!

Feeling as though I'm a fairly confident person (people often tell me) I have had to find some inner strength this past week and it's certainly not for the faint hearted. 

Challenges?  

Yes there have been many. From finding a long queue out of the door to try and purchase a train ticket and then actually catch the train on time right through to realising I don't have enough bottles of water with me! 

I'm not sure yet if it's the 260 bodies in a lecture theatre or the air con but something is making me very thirsty. 

The difference between a lecture and a tutorial:

I think I'm right in saying that during a lecture, you generally sit tight and listen.  For, like, a couple of hours. 

After that, we seem to go off into smaller groups of about 20 and have a tutorial session.  This is where we go over the lecture and write up a summary. 

I'm still to get 100% clear on what is a summary..... Yet right now it's points to remember (not with examples, just reminders) and condensed down onto 2xA4 sheets. 

Side note: as I sit writing on the train, I notice so many ladies doing their make up! So many people with the new iphone6 and someone smelling gorgeous - I wonder what that perfume is?

Back to the uni stuff!  The subjects covered have been HARD.  I'm finding I really need to focus. There are some subjects I've not covered at all before. I would suggest you get a good night sleep beforehand (even the most brilliant people have been seen napping) and try hard to listen as opposed to taking too many notes.  

My uni has all of the slides online for every lecture. Plus practise quizzes and other stuff to help you and give you a chance to get up to speed. During lectures I have been writing down odd little notes or questions that I need to go and get answers to.  For example, in biochemistry we were talking about "ground state" of items found on the periodic table. I'm not sure what that is, yet I'm pretty sure many others know what this is so I'll use google :)

After a lecture, I've been leaving slightly baffled. I guess it would have been helpful to know that you aren't always going to "get it" at every lecture on the first attempt. Yet after going away and re-studying everything and looking things up independently, it will come. 

Great tip:  we were told of "the Khan academy". This is an excellent learning tool for you which is online based. Check it out. 

The shock factor came when we were informed on my course that we have to pass this first year at distinction level, without this, we cannot progress to the second year. It has put lots of my fellow students off. They are now deciding to transfer to another course for the second year.  I slept on it, questioning my ability. Yet I would never know unless I tried. So I'm going to give it everything I've got and work hard enough to know I've done my best. 

All the while still nurturing my blog, YouTube, clients and family. 

I can do it. It's just using lots of focus (which I love) and super powers of organisation- such as putting out the rubbish a little early......

Much love

Louise xoxo