Both today and yesterday have shared one common feature (well, loads of common features, but let's not count things like 'has a 'y' in it', the sun rose, oxygen was plentiful etc.).  That feature is MERINGUE FAIL ( Read more... )

Ho hum, what has happened since the last time I posted.  Well I did the Pass Plus theory session, which was grossely missnamed. A more accurate name would be the Pass Plus Terror session.  I don't want to go into it because I don't really want to think about it.  I'll just say that there are some things you can't un-see, and I will not be doing the ( Read more... )

Today I have a lovely iced coffee and my results!  Hurrah!  And to add to the hurrahness, I got a 2:1 overall, which is perfectly acceptable.  And I've done better on the whole than I did last semester.  If I can keep up the improvement curve I might be in with a shot of getting a higher 2:1 next year.  I'd like to aim for a first but that's kind ( Read more... )

Just a quick update: I did indeed get that ukulele.  It's green and I can't play it yet...  I need many, many hours of practice, I think ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas, dear friendslist people! 
To help add to your no-doubt already overflowing cup of seasonal joy and merriment here are some jolly photographs
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I've been a bit naughty today ( Read more... )

I was reading an article recently in the Times (This one, actually) that talks about how the diaries of normal people tend to ignore the important historical events going on at the time in order to focus on what they had for tea and who said what about who in double maths. This is totally true ( Read more... )

I thought I'd better make an entry just to make it clear that I'm still alive, despite the wishes of my feet, and that I'm not up to my old dissapearing tricks.  I've got extensive notes on my trip to Paris but I'm just taking some time to psych myself up to turning it into an entry.  And photos too... I'm not looking forward to wrestling with ( Read more... )

Aha!  I knew I had some other things to talk about than Paris (hee!  Paris Paris PARIS!  I now have train tickets and Euros and I'm almost ready to go!)
I made a yummy lemon cake with lemon cream cheese icing to celebrate the end of Debra's A-levels:


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I've decided that it's probably easier at this point, an perhaps more pleasant and less whiny, to look back at the last year through the pictures I took rather than writing about it at length, pulling it appart and, as always, focussing on the bad parts rather than the good.  It hasn't been an easy year for me, but there were good times too.  So ( Read more... )