If you have a telescope. My course ends on July 3rd, but formal Assessment doesn’t happen until mid-September, by which time I’ll have forgotten I was ever on it.

I have a choice; pack everything away and reclaim my conservatory, or start on work that’s going to knock the socks off the assessors.

Actually, there’s a third and much more important option – assemble everything for submission and put it in several folders on at least three different drives. This is not paranoia, the OCA site was glitching when I was uploading work for the previous assessment, and today the heat was affecting connectivity in bizarre ways, such as continuously downloading videos from my wildlife cameras to my watch so that I had to turn off the watch, the phone, and the camera sync units. You don’t need that kind of behaviour when the last hurrah is pumping up its volume pedal.

See you in the Between Times.

© Suzanne Conboy-Hill 2026