End of an Era!

After 3 years of student life in Leeds, I have now completed my degree and awaiting the all important degree classification! :-)


My dissertation on "UK Heatwaves" eventually got finished on May 11th, leaving just one exam also on "meteorology" remaining before my entire final year (and degree) was completed.

In September I hope to be doing a postgraduate Masters course at Birmingham, to achieve this I ideally need to achieve a 2:1 degree and a successful application, that I shall be working on in the coming days.


Hope all of you have a thoroughly enjoyable Whitsun Bank Holiday,


tuba x

Easter Holidays Coming Soon

Just two weeks remaining til the end of term & I announce my intention that I shall stay in Leeds to work on my dissertation until the 31st March (at this stage). If anyone plans to visit Leeds University during this time you'll know that I'm up here!


In other news, there have been two winners of the recent "Millionaire" contest. Take a bow Pete & Pat, your prize shall be with you soon.


Stay tuned for the next competition...

Tuba aka Bone

Train Collides with Cow!

On Thursday morning, after having attended the Birmingham Uni Postgraduate Open Day the previous day, I boarded the 08:03 Virgin Voyager service (train) to Edinburgh via Leeds.

Then having called at Tamworth & Burton-upon-Trent, just half-hour into the journey, the train suddenly starts breaking heavily, in coach C we hear a bump and feel a lot of jolting followed by the train coming to an abrupt halt. An announcement from the train manager tells us that we had just hit a cow that was on the rails! :-O

Events then took a nasty turn after about one hour standing still, the train was deemed out of service due to damage to the braking system. We were then dropped off at Willington station (nr. Derby) and put onto the (delayed due to us being in the way), Newcastle train - unfortunately this train was not running to Leeds, so I had to change at Sheffield to get the 1hr-long journey up to Leeds.

In the end, I was about 2hours later arriving in Leeds and late to my 12noon lecture!

An unbelievable set of events!

Thank God in my prayers, that the train did not derail! :-)

Tuba x

Another Million, but yes, it's only a game...


Up for a "bonus point" Challenge? Play the free game @ itv.com/millionaire
then using the print screen button on your keyboard copy the screen you get at the end of the game like the one above (&below), paste it into paint, save the file and then send it to: challenge2tuba@googlemail.com
Winner and runner-up shall get a mystery prize for their effort(s)!


Good Luck!

I won £1,000,000
shame it was only a game