Getting our business done!

Today has been a really good day and between us, Sophie and I managed to get a lot of things sorted out for university.

After the usual trip to take Mike to school, Sophie and I sat down at my computer to have a good look at what my daughter needs to do before she starts University. Next week is Welcome week and there's a whole host of activities for her to take part in before she starts properly on the 28th.

Sophie tried to access her timetable but became very frustrated as she just couldn't log into the website. In an effort to calm her down I suggested we email the university's helpdesk, which we did. We then looked at laptops on Amazon before deciding to drive back down to Riverside to see what they had on offer at PC World.

While Sophie was showering I looked at Tesco Direct and was delighted to find an Acer Aspire laptop for £209. As soon as Sophie came out of the shower I showed her and she said it looked perfect for what she wanted. They had Microsoft Office for £99 but it was out of stock, so I ordered the computer and some anti-virus software to be collected the next day from Kettering.

Just after I did this she received an email back from uni to say that she could access her time-table from the main web page and all she had to do was enter her student ID number. Within minutes she was into her timetable which at first looked really confusing!

She also received an email with all the information about starting which was great news. Even better was the information that she could take her laptop into university and get Microsoft Office completely free! We were over the moon as this would mean she would save £100! We decided to go and enrol this weekend and hopefully have a proper look around the campus while we're there. This means that she'll be all ready for her welcome week's activities.

We had another look at her timetable and worked out she could look at it individually. She'll be there Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday and has Wednesday off which is a bonus. I was particularly pleased as we can drop Mike off at school and then take Sophie as her start time is 9am for three days of the week.

Today has been another glorious day and it's been lovely sitting in the sunny conservatory getting everything sorted out. Sophie now feels much better about everything and is really looking forward to starting her course.

Keith and Mike were both out in the evening - Mike to his usual army cadet evening and Keith to a local football match. I cooked a pizza for Sophie and me with some chicken bits to accompany it and then we settled down to watch the Hairy Bikers in Russia. They looked like they were having a great time and had a vodka tasting which I was very envious about!

When Keith and Mike returned home I cooked them the other pizza we'd bought and we watched an amazing programme about the first eight weeks of life. Miraculous!