ornare asked me 5 questions and I guess I should post them here:

1. I read about/saw pictures of your halls... so whereabouts are you at university?
Attending the University of Derby. Unsure as to why. It hasn't got a great reputation, the city isn't a place I have ever aspired to be and my family were dissapointed that I failed to utilise my A ( Read more... )

 Did you know that tea has been around for 4,500 years? Yes! Chinese mythology tells us that one day in 2737BC, the Chinese Emperor Shen Nung, who was also a herbalist, was sat underneath a tree drinking hot water. A leaf fell from a nearby wild tea tree and landed in his cup. This is how the tea was born ( Read more... )

Spent a lovely day yesterday, helping Carly to pot some plants. We ran out when we heard the ice cream van, squealing like delighted little children. We had some fruity cocktails and feeling guilty about the calories consumed, we had chicken and salad for dinner and snacked on homous and cucumber. We all fell asleep reading our books.

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Haven't posted in a while, for which I apologise. I have been in Harlow with Rob. We went down for his Grandad's funeral. Obviously funerals are never fun events, but it was as nice as it could have been. The men all wore West Ham ties and the women wore a touch of red. I met his entire family, all of whom were lovely, especially his second cousin ( Read more... )

Just popped into town to get some last minute things before Rob and I go to Harlow. I'll be staying for a week. The trip will no doubt have a rather sombre tone as there will be a funeral. I just want to make sure Rob is okay, really.
He bought me four bunches of lillies from a flower stall outside HMV. They're very fragrant and lovely.

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 So, at 23.52, I have eight minutes until my new regime of swimming, jogging, cycling at walking everywhere begins ( Read more... )

 This Saturday night, I am staying in, I have a rather dismal cold and absolutely NO money. Unless of course, we consider the lonely sixty pence cowering in the bottom of my satchel, should I choose to spend it on two kinder hippo's. Two weeks ago, that would have got me three. I hate price hikes.


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 Motivating myself to leave the flat today was excruciating. I had one hour and forty five minutes to get to Uni, print out my Curriculum Vitae, get into town, meet Carly & Sara and hand the bugger in. I had a bit of a "flap" as Rob called it, proclaiming that life was too hard, when flatmates "borrow" your printer cable for six months and then ( Read more... )

 When I was eight I took pottery lessons. I was making a pottery teddy bear, making tiny indents to look like fur, carving polka dots on his bow tie. Absorbed in my work I didn't notice the boy sitting next to me. He lived a few roads away from me on the dismal estate, sometimes we were rather friendly to each other. Not today. He told me my teddy ( Read more... )

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