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But, while it seems many American critics found Winslet's speech endearingly flustered, the British were mortified.

Damn right we're mortified.

Maybe 'mortified' is a bit strong. But really, despite all the stereotypes British people try to dispel about ourselves, I cannot deny that in Britain we do all favour a stiff upper lip. Pull yourself ( Read more... )

Does anyone know a good cure for a sore throat that I can make out of stuff in my kitchen? I've heard about lemon-and-honey, but does that actually mean I just get lemon and honey?

Currently making my way through Tennyson's Idylls of the King. Books entirely made up of poetry scare me. Tennyson appear to have tweaked the story somewhat also.

I'm on ( Read more... )

Okay, so I'm midway through a two-day long art exam. Five more hours tomorrow, and I'm exhausted. And I think I've developed some sort of repetitive strain disorder from so much embroidery. Oh, and I have to finish Spanish coursework, a truckload of mechanics questions, and a science experiment write-up by Friday. And then hand in my sketchbook on ( Read more... )

Went and saw Sum 41 play at Brixton Academy last night. Omigosh, it was brilliant. There was a small fiasco when Morgan forgot her ticket and sort of had to go all the way back to North London to get it, but still only missed the first supporting act. Who were called Tears of Fury or Pain of Anger or Blood of Angst, or something like that. Their ( Read more... )

My nan's here in the house now, and we've decorated the tree as per usual. It's about three feet tall and we have a fuckload of inherited decorations, so it's a little... overcrowded. And the cats have never seen Christmas before, so they keep trying to eat the tinsel. Well, the brave one does. The not-so-brave one thinks the tree is trying to kill ( Read more... )

I've redone my journal layout, using one of the yucky free LJ layouts that the site gives you, because I can't be bothered to find a nice one...

I went to see Wicked! with my GCSE music class! YAAY! It was brilliant - the whole thing was just a spectacular production. I've wanted to see it for aaaages and I got to go see it on Hallowe'en! The whole ( Read more... )

Ah. Omigosh AHHHH. School AAHHH AHHH AAAAAAH.

Okay, okay, I'm calm.

But AAAAAAHH.

I'm so screwed. How could I be this unprepared for EVERYTHING?

I have a Maths test tomorrow on EVERYTHING WE'VE COVERED SO FAR THIS YEAR and a Biology test on EVERYTHING WE'VE COVERED SO FAR THIS YEAR and I would have taken home my stuff to revise from, only I got so ( Read more... )

Bank holiday Mondays are GOD. So we went down to Brighton - the one place in the whole of south-east England that wasn't hit by a monsoon. So much fun, we hit the beach and Sian went paddling. The waves were well huge. And then we wandered down to the biiig doughnut by the pier which I've only just learned it apparently the Earth turned inside out ( Read more... )

Do you ever get days when it is impossible to motivate yourself to do anything? I'm having one of those days. The school play rehearsal went on from eight thirty in the morning until six o'clock at night and I have one after school tomorrow and I got no weekend last week and Miss Field is driving me absolutely insane ( Read more... )

Just got back from DofE. Feet = very sore. Maths coursework = so not done.

Will do a full update avec picspam later.