Just a quick one...

... I think it's a mystery that will never be solved. Why, exactly, do people just decide not to come to training courses we hold to show them how to forecast their budgets, and then think that we'll drop everything a couple of weeks later to hand hold them through it all when they realise they haven't got a frick'n clue what they're doing?

No, seriously! Does anyone know why?

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Have I told you guys how much love my Uni class this semester? I haven't had this much fun in ages! So far we've done practicals on classifying ceramics, glass and photographs. Last night was the photographs section and we had a ball! They broke us up into pairs and had us describe the photo and estimate a date given the evidence. Thank god they didn't make us draw it this time.

For the first one, the ceramics, we each did our own classification and it involved drawing a picture of our artefact. Lets just say I'm not going to be winning any awards for my stunning illustrations! The next week with the bottles we were in groups of six and we just got the best drawer in the lot to do the sketch. But this time we just had to describe it. Lucky too, given the amount of detail we ended up with.

It was a photo of three teenage girls, all standing around in their best winter outfits and leaning on papier mache logs set up to look like a fence. Very tacky! We ended up christening them Beryl, Myrtle and Harriet. Quite the scary bunch, I must say! But we dated it easily enough to the 1880's so that was fine.

Next week is "miscellaneous items", so that should be interesting to see what he puts in that category...