The oxford university quiz society has just elected its first ever female president, me. We had around 25 people turn up for squad practice and the egm and there we were worrying that we wouldn't make quorum of 14. Didn't get asked any nasty questions in hustings apart from what is the safest way to cross magdalen bridge - to which i replied on a ( Read more... )

So somehow my room seems to be spawning wasps. And yes i mean spawning, i have looked everywhere but can not see a nest. I purposely have kept the window shut so that they can't come in that way and still they appear, i'm beginning to get a bit freaked out. The other night i was in bed and felt something itching my toe only to discover half a ( Read more... )

Whooo! Have just been offered a part in "Look in Thy Heart and Write" at the Moser in 4th week. Sam and I had been joking about having to demonstrate our ability to project in order to read he questions since Merton bar become very noisy at our bar quiz last night. This morning I find a message from one of the people at the bar quiz offering me a ( Read more... )

Well I have been given my task for the rest of the vac. my mother has managed to re break her elbow five weeks after breaking it for the first time. This means that no housework has been done in this time and the house is filled with all the stuff from the three separate lives my sister and i have each been leading. Therefore my task is to clean ( Read more... )

Right, tomorrow I depart for switzerland. I have mixed feelings about this, I'm excited as I've never been before and i know we're going to do lots of trips to castles and museums which is the sort of thing i really like, but at the same time i'm conscious that i will be looking after 4 children (although their mother will be there too) and it ( Read more... )

Okay this empty house this is beginning to get a little creepy, the floorboards creak so my imagination in beginning to get the better of me. also my tv room is below street level and i've had to shut the blind as people keep staring in at me ( Read more... )

Well I passed my prelims, and got to celebrate by having the family disappear off to France for two weeks leaving me to house sit. I'm allowed parties (well dinner parties) and can have friends over for a drink in the garden. Now if only there were more people still around in oxford ( Read more... )

So I've been back in Oxford working for about a week now. The boys are lovely most of the time although the youngest is prone to the occasional screaming fit but you can tell he's just putting it on because when he sees it isn't working he tries to pull a cute face that rivals even mine. They have sports day tomorrow and i've been told i have to ( Read more... )

So I went went back to my old school on Wednesday to give a talk about doing E&M at Oxford and uni life in general. As a thank you present I got given a bottle of Wycombe Abbey's finest champagne and since it was Alex's birthday today we decided to open it (I'm not a total skinflint I did get her other presents as well). Well first of all I hadn' ( Read more... )

Managed to survive two thirds of my prelims today, just management left tomorrow. Papers were slightly odd today. all the maths questions seemed to have one ridiculously easy part and then one stupidly hard part and some of the stuff I swear wasn't on the syllabus I just remember doing it for further maths A level. Hopefully this is a good sign ( Read more... )