Still dark and raining...

I'm currently studying for an Open University BSc Psychology, I'll be halfway through as of 21 October, which also happens to be my birthday! If you haven't come across the Open University, it's well worth a look- www.open.ac.uk. They have an extremely impressive range of courses, all delivered on a distance learning basis, with regular face to face or telephone tutorials. I've completed (almost!) two level 2 psychology modules, DSE212 Exploring Psychology and ED209 Child Development, and I've found their materials to be top notch. I hadn't really thought much about the OU until someone at work mentioned them, but now that I'm studying with them, it's like a secret society, with OU students coming out of the woodwork everywhere! OU students seem to be a pretty hardworking bunch, and there are so many people you come across who never had the chance to attend a 'brick' uni - like the octogenarian Yorkshire woman at the Summer School I attended last year.

Hello and welcome to my Blog

I'm Pam, I'm 29 years old (30 in less than a fortnight!) and I teach at Stow College, a Further Education college in the centre of Glasgow. I live in Cardonald with an aged cat called Banjo - he only moved in yesterday. At 10, Banjo is younger than the previous cat, Gus, who died in June aged 15, and they're both nippers compared to Flo-Jo, my parents' cat, who's still going strong at 17, along with her son, William, at 16, and Maisie, who I think is now 12.

OK, enough about aged cats!! Don't know quite what I'm going to do with this blog yet but it does look fun, I've been thinking about using blogs at work so I thought I'd give it a whirl.

I'm about to head home before it gets completely pitch dark, I don't actually think it got light - or stopped raining - at all today. I have visitors from Oxford who wanted to go for a nice walk by the Clyde, I tried to persuade them that the bus and a nice museum with a tea shop might be a better idea - I'll go and see how they got on.