I decided to do the Couch to 5K this summer, starting on Week 3 because I'm not so totally unfit that I'm at couch level, and Week 4 is going great. Yesterday I finished the last five-minute stretch with the definite sense that I could have carried on without too much trouble, which bodes well for next week. I'm actually really enjoying it.

19. The ( Read more... )

I don't think there's been a single point in the last month where it hasn't been at least two of the above. I'm not sure I can take much more of this. All of the clothes I would normally be wearing in July are either hanging limply in my wardrobe or being creatively turned into December clothes with cardigans and black opaque tights. I have pinned ( Read more... )

I'm very proud of myself. I would post pictures, but it's already been somewhat ravaged by my family. It was very attractive, though, white lemon filling marbled with chocolate ganache. I had great fun poking it around with a skewer to get the nice swirly look to it.

11. Snuff - Terry Pratchett, 2012 (first-time reading)
   I used to be quite a ( Read more... )

It's the first one I've been to in ages - I don't get out loads anyway but, with exams, until the end of last week I had basically no social life except for maybe going out for a coffee to commiserate after English or French or whatever. I'm doing my makeup now, although I suspect my choice of lots of dark eyeliner may be a little foolhardy, given ( Read more... )

It was awesome. In an hour I got to the stage of driving round quiet streets at moderate speeds, and it felt awesome. Next lesson is in nine days, I can't wait.

I'm going out with my family tonight and my friends on Monday, and on Tuesday I'm hitting the road for my first driving lesson. After a year of watching all my friends turn seventeen and learn to drive this cannot come soon enough.

4. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith, 1943
   Great book. It reminded me of The Help and I Capture the Castle - ( Read more... )

I'm making brownies, half for my friend's birthday tomorrow and half for mine on Sunday. They're turning out delightfully. I was a little wary of a recipe that called for mayonnaise and buttermilk (I've never seen buttermilk in a supermarket in my life, so I used yoghurt, which some Googling revealed as an acceptable substitute) but they're really ( Read more... )

I've been thinking recently that I should be getting more into posting here again, especially since I'm not writing much at the moment (I still use my livejournal all the time for looking at communities and so on, but I haven't posted for ages. And the last post I made wasn't even an interesting one; given the heavily left-wing bias on this site it ( Read more... )

Some mad American Republican on TV just referred to Barack Obama as 'the alleged president'.

I mean, we're all used to one-half of American politics (at least) being a mixture of hilarity and terror that one of them will actually become president, but...seriously?

I never saw any of the first season, except for about five minutes once, of which I vaguely remember a taxi driver and a great deal of intense staring. I quite liked this one, but I found Sherlock himself to be very irritating. You get these characters sometimes whom, while it's clear that in real life it would be horrible to know them, one is ( Read more... )