Its baking hot and its only 9am. The sort of baking hot where the thought of a near 4hour drive up north is not good.
Thankfully I am not staying in my normal dive but somewhere just a little bit better.
I have been filling out an application for a grant for Thomas going to Collegein September.
Locally we can get £135 p/year to help with transport costs, as the course is not available within the county. Its a shame the actual cost of getting to Bristol everyday will be nearer £1,000 a year.
We are above the threshold for most of the other grants but by the time we have paid for the transport and all the equipment we will be well below but that doesn't count. Typical that Thomas choose photography, a course where you need a lot of expensive equipment.
I have just filled out an online application that checked over 1200 organisations that hand out grants to students. Most of the questions were only applicable to the sort of people that Daily Mail readers hate. If Thomas was a gay one legged Muslim refuge who was a member of a union then I think we might of got somewhere. However the only one we were apparently eligible for was a grant from The Dixie Educational Foundation, which is limited to people who have lived for at least 2 years in Market Bosworth. My only question would be where the F**K is Marker Bosworth.
Oh well time to buy a few more lottery tickets.
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