OK well it's not exactly much,and it's also pretty much melted now - but it's the first bit we've had since I've been over here. It was kinda annoying though as most of the people in my halls got a tad overexcited and spent all night screaming and having snowball fights outside etc. which just happened to be under my window :( Heavy snow is forecast for monday though so it could get a little worse.
No matter - it means more excuse not to go out (coldness) and instead more time to do work!! :( of which I am definately not short of! There is clearly more to be done here than in Lpool but I think that's mostly because we have lots of smaller projects going on at the same time instead of one big one - although all these smaller ones assumer we're going to be putting the work of the big one into each one - obviously not going to happen as there aren't enough hours in the day or week.
Yesterday I spent about 5 hours teaching myself a CAD programme as one of our projects requires the technical drawings to a given building to be presented in CAD format, something we don't do in England...so that wasted a lot of time....and will be wasting more today and tomorrow and there are some things that it is really refusing to do grrrrr. tbf I am just glad that it's even on my laptop and working! Along side that I have an assignment for a computer class to do - another CAD based programme, my design project which is a swimming pool and azora (yup sounds exactly like West Kirby to me) and brick wall to design and model...amongst other things. and no the brick wall is way not simple. for a start each layer can't have any joints in the same place...fair enough....but when the wall has to be a metre thick to support itself and the other walls, then you start having a problem with the joints plus the fact that there have to be 4 layers which alternate all the way up (having 2 would be so much easier)...so i finally worked all that out last night....then had to work out how the corners would work which took a good 3 hours....in short..they don't work but I've sort of made them work! So OK that's all well and good....but now I have to have an opening in the wall and it must only be brick (no concrete or steel supports or lintels) oh dearrrrr that's my job for today. But first I'm off to church for the 1st time in 2 weeks - bad I know. The fact that it is a good 30 minute walk in the freezing cold is not appealing :(
So that's about it for now I think - thought I'd just have a little bit of an update :)