Top tips to de-stress
So, now that we are around Easter time, the end of term is getting closer. For me that means coming to the end of first year and coming closer to deadlines. Once the Easter […]
Year: 2016
Summer in Iraq
Summer is here. Temperatures for the next three or four months will rarely drop beneath 35 degrees. The strain on the air conditioning units will be immense. With city electricity at the best of times only […]
A Survivors Guide to Graduation
It seems like a lifetime ago since I graduated, everything seemed to go by so fast on the day. I was in and I was out. Some people dream of the ‘perfect’ graduation day but […]
Savvy shopping with DoNation
It’s was H&M’s recycle week last week (18-24 April) when H&M stores offer 30% off instead of their usual 15% in exchange for your old clothes. As Stoke-on-Trent is still waiting for our incoming H&M […]
Get stuck in…the mud!
When people ask me what I do in my spare, I inform them I enjoying running through mud and over obstacles. They generally think I am crazy “Running, water AND mud?!” Well yeah, it’s like […]
Whats actually happening behind the campus transformation boards?
So you’ve been walking around our Stoke-on-Trent Campus or at our Centre of Excellence in healthcare Education – Stafford and until recently at the Centre of Excellence in healthcare Education – Shrewsbury and seen the […]
What’s on my iPhone
I have watched so many YouTube videos of “What’s on my iPhone” and always wanted to do one. This isn’t YouTube, but it’s the next best thing! I have quite alot of apps on my […]
A day in the life – Placement
I am currently on my negotiated community placement, which is a placement that we organise ourselves by finding different professionals to work with. In this day in the life I was working with a teenage […]
Personal Best – ‘Great things never came from comfort zones.’ – unknown
What’s your ‘PB’? If you’ve been keeping up to speed with my other blogs, you’ll know that I’ve had my ups and downs with training for the Potter’s ‘Arf Marathon, and running in general […]
How Eco is your eating? with DoNation
As my blog title so helpfully suggests: Eco eating! Is the theme of today’s blog. Cheesed off! Is one of the DoNation pledges that I shall be pondering through and is one I thought I […]