A calling.....

I started the course, RHS Advanced Level in Horticulture last September at a local collage. I do one night a week, three hours on a Tuesday, but because we were so behind, we had to do some Wednesday's as well last term. This fits perfectly with looking after Jess my daughter. It's tough though because we end up doing about 180 hours for the course, but I think the RHS recommends doing about double that. When you think the Wisley students get to do the same course full-time for a year, if I succeed, I will be sooooooo happy!!!
I can't put into words how weird it is studying again. After the three blurred years at Manc Uni 15 years ago doing Microbiology, I thought that would the end of revising and but for a blip doing professional Market Research exams whilst at Unilever it was......
This time it's different..... This time I really, really, want it. Microbiolgy, was plucked from the air, because I was good at sciences and I thought may a brewery would be a good job.
I never had a calling, a never felt a vocational pull. I drifted into well-paid corporate life at Unilever, floating from meaningless deodorant research to even more meaningless work on technically validating TV ads.
I had my daughter, didn't return to work. Being a mother is the most important job you can have and I would not change a thing, but as a mother who had a life and career before, my brain will not switch off. One day, my husband said "let's grow tomatoes in hanging baskets" in our small garden. Ok - we did - and they grew and in Jess' summer holidays, we were bored and planted French Beans and a several sunny days later we're scoffing our own gorgeous juicy Toms and the greenest, freshest beans . It was magic. And science. A blend I have never previously experienced.....living science....not on a petri dish...something I could use for my family. I am hooked....And I want more.