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When people think about the Open University, they often think of people studying part time around their jobs. However, it’s becoming increasingly common for people to study full time with the Open University. Today, I wanted...
I'm a full time History and Art History student at The Open University (OU). Today I wanted to talk about my experience of studying A113: Revolutions with the OU. This is one of two second level one modules in the Humanities stream.
My first hand experience studying A111: Discovering the Arts and Humanities with the Open University.
I started the year with no firm travel plans and only vague ideas, but I've spent a bit of time over the past few weeks pulling those ideas together to work out our holiday plans for the year.
The beaches around Kinlochbervie in north-west Scotland are beyond beautiful. They are wild, sandy and rugged. If it wasn't for the weather, I would have thought I was somewhere significantly more tropical. Today, we have a slightly tongue-in-cheek round up of the four (or sort of five) beaches we visited in the area.
Translated by Charlotte Barslund with Emma Ryder, the story follows several generations of fishermen from Marstal, a town located on the island of Ærø, in southern Denmark. We follow Laurids Madsen into battle against the rebelling Germans in 1848. Then his son, Albert, on a round-the-world voyage searching for answers. Finally, we see the Second World War through the eyes of Albert’s stepson, Knud Erik, a captain in the British Navy.
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I especially miss Brussels during the festive season, so we’ve been trying to replicate some of the fun of the Christmas markets with trips to our local National Trust houses to see their Christmas decorations. There’s less mulled wine on offer (i.e. none), but the decorations are all so lovely and varied.
Scotney Castle is a National Trust property tucked inside the Kent border with East Sussex, close to Bewl Water reservoir and the pretty village of Lamberhurst. It’s also probably my favourite National Trust property due to the variety of things to explore.
If you’ve seen my post about our adventures around Inverness, or you’ve been following along on Instagram, you’ll be expecting this post. I’m slowly recapping our visit to north-west Scotland in October this year.
This is an attempt at a quick-fire round up of the various places we visited between Ullapool and Smoo Cave on the North Coast 500.
I quickly realised that weekend trips to see some of our local National Trust properties decorated for Christmas would probably do the trick. A spreadsheet was created, a plan was made, and we were off!