Cemetery Road: a blog

Thanks for your encouraging comments, folks.  These tales may not add up to very much, but they keep me focused.

They're great Tom, keep them coming :-) 

I'm just about to enrol for a series of short courses at northern college on verbs and nouns and stuff like that. I never learned those things at school and I'd love to learn them so nows my chance. You could join me Robert, all the courses are free, they're residential and all your food and accommodation is free and it's in a great setting. Check it out, northern college, near Barnsley. They have lots of other great courses as well. I'm going to do the writing courses as well. 

I'm also a book collector and I am self taught from my collection of English language and grammar books.  These are mostly intended for adults learning english as a second language.

Had a look at the Barnsley college at Wentworth on the internet.  Google maps says it's 25miles away.

That made my day, I love it and it made me laugh ~ always a good thing. 

I find that I only learn something when I’m really interested in it. I don’t find learning a foreign language easy at all but I enjoy it, I’ve been at the French for years now and can barely say a word, but I don’t mind, I enjoy it and who knows, if I keep in going, maybe in another 10 years I’ll be able to speak a sentence.

I love being in a room with others and being silent. I much prefer it to talking. And when I’m with nice people or my family I can enjoy their company much better when I can just sit and be quiet and just watch and listen or be in my little world or read a book. I like to be in company but mostly if I can be quiet. 

Playing the piano sounds wonderful. I’ve neber been drawn to want to play a musical instrument. I did a bit of guitar and the recorder at school but I think I gave up on music when they gave me a triangle to play at school. I was mortified! Lol! I thought the triangle was ridiculous so I think I gave up on music after that, plus I prefer silence over music. 

Through learning French, I have realised that I think I would progress further if I knew what nouns and verbs were so that’s prompted me to fulfill a big desire of mine. I’ve tried by myself to learn those stuff but I just haven’t been able to get it so far so I’m looking forward to the series of short courses I’m going to do on the subject. 

I was supposed to go to the university today to find out more about the autism course but I couldn’t make it. I had a meltdown/shutdown and was stressing like mad over it and I realised, clearly, that I’m not quite ready for that yet so I’m going to work towards starting in September 2019 I think. I’ve got a lot to do before then, such as clearing away the last 50 years of my life. I’m getting rid of as much ‘stuff’ as I can so I’m living as if I’m living in my van. I’m going all minimalistic, because I want to but also in preparation for van living. 

That made my day, I love it and it made me laugh ~ always a good thing. 

I find that I only learn something when I’m really interested in it. I don’t find learning a foreign language easy at all but I enjoy it, I’ve been at the French for years now and can barely say a word, but I don’t mind, I enjoy it and who knows, if I keep in going, maybe in another 10 years I’ll be able to speak a sentence.

I love being in a room with others and being silent. I much prefer it to talking. And when I’m with nice people or my family I can enjoy their company much better when I can just sit and be quiet and just watch and listen or be in my little world or read a book. I like to be in company but mostly if I can be quiet. 

Playing the piano sounds wonderful. I’ve neber been drawn to want to play a musical instrument. I did a bit of guitar and the recorder at school but I think I gave up on music when they gave me a triangle to play at school. I was mortified! Lol! I thought the triangle was ridiculous so I think I gave up on music after that, plus I prefer silence over music. 

Through learning French, I have realised that I think I would progress further if I knew what nouns and verbs were so that’s prompted me to fulfill a big desire of mine. I’ve tried by myself to learn those stuff but I just haven’t been able to get it so far so I’m looking forward to the series of short courses I’m going to do on the subject. 

I was supposed to go to the university today to find out more about the autism course but I couldn’t make it. I had a meltdown/shutdown and was stressing like mad over it and I realised, clearly, that I’m not quite ready for that yet so I’m going to work towards starting in September 2019 I think. I’ve got a lot to do before then, such as clearing away the last 50 years of my life. I’m getting rid of as much ‘stuff’ as I can so I’m living as if I’m living in my van. I’m going all minimalistic, because I want to but also in preparation for van living.