Locked out!

Today's not as planned as the FA business has just gotten more complicated  as resulting from a cyber attack that is alleged to have compromised the security of everyones account  had we not had a lengthy outage it has been decide to have everyone go through a password resetting tool to change it.
Normally this is little more than just changing your password but FA wants you to a tool that is meant to go to the email you are registered at but a fair number of people are finding the request isn't arriving at their inbox. I've tried three times and it hasn't come through even though I have my original activation email there and can't recall changing the email details but it isn't working so I'll have to contact a human if they feel like helping out as I have a lot stuff there.
On the other hand I did study this weekend looking at capacity and volume for rectangles and cubes and doing a practice paper for English on Soccer that I got 85% on.

Down our wood

It's been a week of the streaming eyes thanks to hay fever which is something I do suffer from as much as love being out of doors but the outdoor life is the one I prefer not least when it's so relaxing.

I'm fortunate this part of the North-west Midlands has lovely countryside even woods in walking distance I can just visit and just spent time just watching nature at its own more less hectic timescale.

Pay attention Jo (yet another study weekend)

This was typed between bit of spare time this weekend where it was bright and sunny although not exactly warm here not that it stops his Gingerness from being out for hours at a time.

"Cheer up, Girls, it can't surely be that bad" is the thought that enters my mind looking at that picture and the desks we sat at one by one until my secondary education were similar for those of us brought up with rote learning and the notion the teacher delivering the lesson to the class.
This weekend I've been studying  with an English practice on an extract from Oscar Wilde's The Picture  of Dorian Gray which was more about how to answer questions long answers where there is not a clue in the question as the what in the extract you need to look at and where necessary quote from.
Not wishing to sound like I'm on repeat, but my reading age is barely in double digits so reading it for the gest of the story was very hard going but I managed 90% in this.
The other part of the study is my favourite subject  -NOT- Math looking at working out Areas, Circumferences, Diameters and Radius using formulas for squares, circles, rectangles and triangles (right angled and others) in addition to learning about Solids and Nets which involves having to use ordinary math.
Although part of the formula wasn't properly explained so I had to work it out for myself, I did actually get 100% on this unit which is pretty amazing.
I'd like to thank Papa Bear for his supporting me, he's a lovely, firm but fair guy who believes in me probably more I've done in the  past to be honest and everyone else who does helping me grow.

Top shelf edition! (Very SFW!)

Been a bit busy this week tidying a few things up, sorting  somethings I don't really use but are in great shape for charity and dusting -atchoo! - the top shelf in my room.

 Well when doing that I found something I hadn't mentioned before on here that is I just loved Sesame Street even when you get it with NTSC colour on our tv and 26th letter of the American Language (some of us spell from Eh to Zed!) for the characters and especially the message it put over in what could be  very selfish and commercial set of values found elsewhere.
Big Bird was one of my favourites from the show always taking an interest and a care in the people and situations which kinda rubbed off with me.
A few years ago my folks bought me this Big Bird plushie as they gradually are becoming more accepting of this middle/little side that's central to my life and I thought it deserved an airing.

May study weekend

I don't actually know where to put myself today as the weekends events have left me feeling very different about me (and some of this will go elsewhere), what I can do and really about my life so far in.
As well all know, the one big difference this year with the exception of days when I am truly too unwell to work or away on meets such as Camp, my weekends  are taken up with something deliberately challenging.
Two days of concentrated study where I pretty much have to work on just that, sat at a desk, in uniform with no distractions working from the study guides with just fixed recess periods with no dawdling, back chat or refusing to start being accepted.

Really.
This weekend has seen me work on my English looking at how people who write stories try to draw you into the character, getting you to think you were involved and learning how to compare and contrast different texts on the same subject by style, language, use of humour and summarize any differences effectively.
I had set questions to answer on it and I managed 90%.
Sunday after breakfast saw me start work on the great Basic Math revision test going over the whole of the unit from addition, subtraction, long multiplication and  long division (makes numbers look more like snakes and ladders!), formulars, factors, square, cubed and prime numbers and ratios.
That's because I now have Area to get to grips with as the next unit in my studying and you need to understanding these more everyday concepts first.
It also involved knowing how to use a calculator correctly and paper/mental arthritic!
Now this has been marked at...92%
I even got the formulas and long division right  it's so unlike the me I knew, who flunked Math spectacularly at high school not that there are not good reasons why I struggle with it but more the leap in the argument that starts by saying "She'll struggle" moves though "Won't achieve" and finishes at "It doesn't matter".
It doesn't say "Is struggling", "Will help her to master it" and "We will put our foot down if she doesn't make a honest attempt at doing it" which is really the difference now in my life.

Blossoming pink

Spring has finally sprung here at chez Jo's with what might be a warm mini season this weekend which will be welcomed  after last weekends damp squid so the layers can come off and the gingham dresses go on.
This entry is very much hot of the press as I went out this morning first thing with an idea in mind for this blog entry, put my shoes on and took a few pictures. One I liked was that of our cherry blossoms as I just love the shade of pink they have being a highlight of year when they emerge.
Mr.Marmalade has been out a bit too, rolling about in the grass and sunbathing on the mat.

May Bank Holiday edition

It's a May Bank Holiday and I have things to be doing today not least a few things for the local community which at least keep me fitter than if I didn't  even if the weather as ever is all over the place.
Charming considering this weekend people in part of the North-west Midlands are out celebrating 1000 years of the history of Staffordshire which in its original form is the home two large urban conurbations at its far ends and was ranked as the fifth most populous County in England.
From Flash to Enville and from Gnosall (but sadly have they have no Gnu's) to Uttoxeter it is a country rich in contrasts, countryside and industrial heritage.
 In Lichfield, the county has a most wonderful cathedral.

 This is a oldish picture of a lovely woolen  plaid tartan pencil skirt the bigger side of me likes which you don't see much of on this blog.