I decided to have a culinary weekend. I found this cute greengrocer's around the corner (it's only taken me three months...) and bought loads of vegetables including PUMPKIN.

And so I made PIE... mmm...

( It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown! )

I feel like death warmed up. I've been feeling crummy all week: nauseated and hot and my asthma has been super bad. I felt rubbish again this morning and had to take my salbutamol before I left for work which is never a good sign. I made it through the ward round (just) and then moved onto the ward jobs and then I knew I'd had it. I messed up a ( Read more... )

Something crazy has happened with my sleeping. I've always been a complete night owl and I usually never fall asleep until well after midnight and frequently it's the early hours before I nod off. However, over the last few days I've been going to bed super early and actually falling asleep at eleven and even ten o'clock! And yet I'm still ( Read more... )

I just achieved the seemingly impossible. Because I'm crazy I decided to pick up my old bike from Oxford and take it back to York. It's old and crappy (as you all well know) but it got me to London last year and I love it very much. It sounds easy in theory to move a cycle from Oxford to London. The Oxford Tube bus service allows bikes on board in ( Read more... )

I'm headed back to Oxford :).

I had a lovely few days in London. Yesterday I spent lots of time shopping and spent too much money. But I finally bought a new bathrobe which I've been trying to do for ages (I couldn't find them in Gap stores up north) so that was worthwhile. I also looked around the BP Young Artists exhibition in the National ( Read more... )

So I got off the train and straight on the underground to Victoria... where this happened...


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I'm just under a month into work and I find myself with a week's annual leave. Hurrah. And I received my first ever pay cheque (I don't really count the few pounds I earned working in the buttery in third year) last week. So I have some time, a little bit of money and no guilt over spending it as I've actually earned it myself instead of just ( Read more... )

Tomorrow (technically today...) is the day I've been dreading. I'm leaving Oxford for good. I've had a lovely day today punting on the river with a couple of my friends and I just enjoyed a curry down by Folly Bridge and now I'm sitting in my room with my life around me in suitcases and bags (and a lot still strewn across the floor...) and I feel ( Read more... )

I'm not going to be a homeless doctor :). I travelled to York and back yesterday to look at a house in some crazy 500 mile round trip which actually went very smoothly. I'm adamant that travelling through London is the only way to go. It seems completely counterintuitive as half the universe is there (and most of them are walking a metre in front ( Read more... )

Wow. It's been a pretty manic month. York was okay. The people were really nice and friendly and it's always fun working with kids. I start there properly in two and a half weeks and I'm freaking out a bit now. And then last week I graduated which was fun and surreal. And other stuff has been happening but that merits another entry in itself.

So ( Read more... )