grumpyf1

To everyone exiting gleefully from their educational establishments for Christmas – Yay!  I’ve just finished studying too, and I’ve learnt a lot… about myself. Back in that dim and distant time known as 2015, I embarked on a distance learning course to bag myself a marketing qualification. Excluding the usual one day, work-related, courses that inevitably crop up (Photocopier training, learning how to stay awake during budget meetings, advanced spreadsheet wrangling) this was the first ‘proper’ bit of studying I had undertaken in over 30 years. Last time I read a text book properly, Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minster, there were four TV channels and my greatest concern was if I could fit two albums on a TDK AD90 cassette. I started off with the boldest of intentions. Instead of the sheet-of-A4 studying plan, I created a spreadsheet. Gone was the thick ruled notepad, replaced by my computer’s word processing powers. Unlike my O and A-levels, I was going to work hard on ...