Unlikely

There are many things you don't know about me readers.

Yesterday I snapped my nearly brand new SkullCandy headphones. They were pink and beautiful and are now in three pieces. I am sad.

Another thing is that, about 3 years ago, maybe longer, Hazel and I had a challenge, one we never fully finished. Neither of us won or lost this race to "get as many free things and samples from the internet". As that is what the competition was.
One of the things I sent off for was a Watercress Recipe Book.

I only remembered to tell this story because they just sent me the quarterly newsletter...
With gems like this:

Sunday - The Watercress Festival 16 May

Come down and join the fun at the annual Watercress Festival in Alresford, Hampshire (10am - 4pm), the home of British watercress. Watch the Watercress King and Queen bring the first of the harvest into town on a horse and cart and distribute it to the waiting crowd. Enjoy cookery demonstrations, Hampshire farmers market, street entertainment, live music, farm tours and much more.

Genius.

I want to edit Hazelizabeth and some duck footage for my own channel now.

:) 

Us

Wednesday already!

I know dream stories are boring, but I also know that mine was entirely bizarre. It included a part with numbered controlled invites, a real dead bear nailed to the wall with a fish on it's head, forgetting my bag, James staying to play pass the parcel rather than come with me and people trying to steal my camera  but me getting there first to find them charging the battery!

Art was good this morning, I finished listening to The Prisoner of Azkaban and have now painted 16/39 of my final piece water colours. I might end up re-doing some but I'll see about that next week. I managed to knock one of them into my water cup but it didn't suffer too much thankfully!

James and I walked into town again today because we needed more sustaining foods to last us and we won't be able to go this Sat because I am going orienteering with SSAGO. They were all out of Light Soy Sauce in the Chinese shop. But they did have Pocky biscuits for 55p!

Tea time soon and it'll be home made burgers again I think!
Yum!

x

Unticarial

Outside my window I can see two fire engines. They say "Lancaster Fire and Rescue Service" on them and they are fluorescent orange. One of them is backed up to Spar.

That was written on Saturday morning and even though it is now Monday night I still have no idea what they were there for.

On Saturday James and I walked over 17,000 steps into, around and back from town. On out trip we bought clingfilm (which was the reason for our walk other than a trip out) and stumbled upon a Dr. Who fan store which was quite scary but I high fived a fellow Chameleon Circuit listener and was told I am neither friend or foe. As I am a Sontaron computer. (Plus 2000 intel though!)

Anyhoo, on the walk back my neck started to get itchy then my whole body broke out in hives again. ARGH it's insane.

I've worked and watched Pokémon with James since then.

Life is good. (Except for my allergy to life...)

:D

Unimpressed

Politics was high on everyone's list of topics today, I don't want to blog about it.
I will just answer this intriguing language analysis thing that Ash posted.
:)

Age: 19

Where you grew up (Ages 0-18): Durham, UK

1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks: Stream.

2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called: Trolly.

3. A metal container to carry a meal in: Lunchbox.

4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in: Pan

5. The piece of furniture that seats three people: Sofa or settee.

6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof: Gutter.

7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening: Patio?

8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages: Pop. Or even just "soft drinks".

9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup: Pancake.

10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself: Erm, sub I suppose. Usually though it'd be in a baguette so I'd call it that.

11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach: Trunks.

12. Shoes worn for sports: Trainers.

13. Putting a room in order: Tidying. Cleaning is like vacuuming but sorting things out is just tidying.

14. A flying insect that glows in the dark: Firefly.

15. The little insect that curls up into a ball: Woodlouse.

16. The children's playground equipment where one kid sits on one side and goes up while the other sits on the other side and goes down: See-saw.

17. How do you eat your pizza: I don't.

18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff: We don't get that, we have car boot sales or take it to a fair.

19. What's the evening meal?: Tea. If dinner is to be used it's for the biggest meal of the day, either lunch or tea.

20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are: A basement, or cellar, depends.

21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places: Water fountain.

So yes. Just this from me as all I've done is wear clear tights for the first time in ages paint and eat.


:)

Uncertain Future

So, I'm supposed to be filling in a review questionnaire for my Psychology in Education course but seeing as I did it before the lab actually began (because I got here early to do my homework) I don't have anything to be typing. I was just going to listen to "World of Warcraft Ruined my Life" by ALL CAPS but then I realised that if I wasn't typing at all I might get singled out and asked what I was up to and then be caught watching nerds dance around in cosplay and it would all go wrong.

So I decided I would type in this blog instead.
This morning I walked past the little newsagents in the corner of the square at the center of main campus and there was someone selling "The Times" newspaper for 30p. Now, regularly I don't read the newspaper. Not through the fact that I don't care about what is going on, but I often barely glance and the Scan and don't have the inclination to actually BUY the news when much of it is so readily available online! But today I did buy it. This time it wasn't because it came with free food (as it has in the past). Oh no. Today was a free book. The woman was like "you can have more than one if you want" and honestly I was tempted to take one of all of them because I love books. But this would have been MASSIVELY unfair and not right for only THIRTY PEE. 30p. I know. I ended up picking "The Other Boleyn Girl" by Philippa Greggory and "The Tiger in the Smoke" by Margery Allingham.
I am very happy with this. I might even read the newspaper and it's supplement later, though my time might be spent better making a new video (as this is an avenue I have neglected quite terribly".

So, I have a letter to post to Hazel (well a note really) and then I have to head out and vote and then eat lunch and then probably attempt to actually do some art.

I should listen to Colin and this session now though because apparently we're going to get picked on to present our pov's about the task at any point.
It's sort of themed around the election.
:D

Unique flavours

I never thought I'd enjoy cooking like I do. When I get to experiment with new things it is often quite fun.
Last night (Tuesday) we made our own burgers (mince, onion and egg to bind) and to go with it decided to use up some ingredients (grated carrot, tomato pasata and garlic). This proved to be a very tasty accompaniment to a creative use of mince.

Tonight was even more strange. We had gammon steaks and were unsure whether pineapple would suffice as a side. So to supplement at first we decided that the pepper that was due to be eaten would be nice but I also added onion and a tomato and then garlic and then some herbs, lemon juice, soy sauce, salt, pepper and honey. It was very tasty, although a little strange. It was quite a quantity so we decided that the pineapple would be saved for tomorrow's second helping of gammon.

We walked into town today to get a few life essentials and just for the walk and recreation really.

Art is going well in my opinion. Just need to get started on producing my final pieces after all this planning and research.

Oh and James and I have started watching the very first episodes of Pokémon. We're 4 in. It's AMAZING.

Stylus' (in reference to two DS stylus(es)) was made into these two words by James: Stylusi & Stylupodi.
Unfortunately, adding "podi"to words, isn't quite how pluralising works.

'Til next time.

Unprepared

They had bags of revels with the coffee ones in in homebargains. I didn't realise 'til I got it back, I only got it because it was £1. Now I wish I'd got more.

Yesterday, James and I walked into town, had lunch with his parents at Wetherspoons, got very very wet in the heavy rain and bought food for the next week or two. When we got back to campus we dried off and I had a nap and then we went to see Sherlock Holmes. The one with Jude Law. It was magnificent. I adored the way it was filmed and the characters, I seem to have not seen a bad film that Regina George is in either.

We watched Dr. Who and the confidential on return to James' room and that was spectacular too. I smashing ending to that storyline. VAMPIRES (or so we think) next time!

It is now Monday morning. Yesterday was pretty lovely although I ended up feeling very tired.

Flight of the Conchords, the one with the cup especially, was hilarious!

Don't know what we're doing today, working I suppose even though it's a bank holiday.

ttfn