First Week

Well, managed to survive the first week with only one upset! On the second day some nice, kind little toe rag smacked into the front of my Rover car and did some quite serious damage (Police suspect a 4X4 with tow bar) - awaiting the verdict from insurers, however I have a feeling that they will deem it uneconomical to repair and offer me a fraction of what I paid for it - bearing in mind I only purchased it in May of this year! We shall see!

Anyway besides that everything has gone fairly smoothly. Student Finance is in place and received (most important thing really!), registration completed with no issues and most of my online accounts and access sorted with the exception of my Uni library account - for some reason that is being difficult - but early days yet.

Have to say that the induction sessions and introductions were rather tiresome and in several cases I thought totally unnecessary - but I guess the majority are aimed at 18 year old students so much of it seemed pretty obvious to me but maybe not to them.

I've met my Music department tutors, who all seem really good and I'm very much looking forward to getting stuck in to the 'meaty' stuff in the next few weeks. I haven't had chance to check out the Uni's bassoons or contra bassoon  as yet but I'll be doing that next week.

I've also offered my services to the Dept' as the role of publicity officer (student representative) as they were looking for someone with any experience. As I have done lots of DTP/Publishing work over the years I thought I might be of some use to them. They seemed pretty keen to get me on board and I'm having my initial meeting with one of the admin team on Monday.

As for much of the usual 'Freshers Week' stuff have to say that it really wasn't my cup of tea - bouncy castles, paint balling, clubbing, discos etc 18-22 year olds fine - 56 grumpy old git - maybe not!