Here are a couple of pictures of my Christmas cake!


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I'm making a dress.

My parents gave me a sewing machine for Christmas, and I thought I'd put it to good use by making one of those V-neck wrap kind of dresses (except it's not really a wrap dress - just looks like one). I'm using some bold-print bias cut material because that was the only vaguely suitable material I could find in the charity shops ( Read more... )

My complete absence from the world of the web has been down to what might be called 'a job'. Not quite the job I was hoping for, but a job, nonetheless. I'm working in a boarding school, and since I have no net connection in my room, the only other place is the staff room, and I hate writing or reading things that other people can see over my ( Read more... )

I'm reading a very interesting book at the moment:

Warriors of God by James Reston

It's a double biography of Richard I and Saladin, and is very well written. So well written (for a history book), it seems, that the writers of Kingdom of Heaven lifted the movie's major scenes straight from it. Unfortunately, they didn't have the rights, so Reston ( Read more... )

I got a 2.1!

Today was pretty bad - I was waiting all day to find out. I looked at 11.30am: nothing. 2.45pm: nothing. 4.15pm: nothing. Bearing in mind, the place closes at 4.45pm. I ended up sitting with bf and a load of other soc anthers, waiting to see if someone would arrive with the list - not how I had wanted to find out. I'd been hoping to ( Read more... )

Today is the last day I don't know what my degree classification is ( Read more... )

Finals are OVER! Done and dusted. :) :) :)

I had three hours of sleep last night...

I was panicking that I didn't know enough (and I didn't). I managed to stay up till about 1am, then just had to sleep. BUT I couldn't actually get to sleep until after 2am as I was feeling so sick and worried. I woke up this morning at 5am and worked from then ( Read more... )

Outside my exam on Wednesday, there was a Securitas van that had been stopped in the road by the rising bollards, and was blaring out this recorded message, alternating with a loud siren:

"Help! Help! Security van under attack! Please call the police!"

Twas incredibly surreal, considering it clearly wasn't under attack, and the voice was that of a ( Read more... )

80% done ( Read more... )

That's 40% (incl dissertation) done now. By the end of today, it'll be 60%!

It wasn't too bad. I felt horribly sick all morning, and I'm starting to feel the same again today, but when I was actually in there it went away. Two questions were good, but the third was a bit crap. Oh well. We shall see.

I'm praying that this one goes well. It's ( Read more... )