Not a lot has happened today, no really, not much at all.
My productivity went down to about zero, although I did do some washing.
Was feeling a bit blue due to another day just in the house doing nothing. I was intending to go for a walk but due to the weather decided that I wasn't in the mood for dealing with the weather. Only actually left to go and get Mummy Bason from work...
Hopefully tomorrow will be a bit more productive and now a final decision as to what day I am heading back to Uni has been made I really should do some more packing.
That really is all for now folks.
Thursday, 26 April 2012
Wednesday, 25 April 2012
Ignorance, Rain and Bad Driving.
I'm not going to apologise for what I'm about to say, but it is going to make me sound very opnionated and up my own rear end. But as I said, it's my opinion and it's all because of the rain...
As you probably know, today has been wet, very wet, thus has lead to many complaints on my Facebook feed about the weather, and the fact that people don't think we can be in a drought with all this rain.
To be quite honest, yes that seems logical, but also a basic knowledge of how the water table works, and some common logic that although there's been a lot of rain today it won't make up for 18 months, can tell you that it's easily not going to be enough for us to be automatically out of a drought. This kind of thinking bugged one of my pet hates. Ignorance.
In the occasional instances, yes ignorance is bliss, but not in day to day life. I don't intend to imply that I'm not ignorant about some things at all, and I think that is perfectly fine, but I do think that I have a good general knowledge, that will better with age and more life experience, but I know a lot of people my age, older and a bit younger that just have no idea about even the basics of common subjects. I feel that I would be able to hold a reletively intelligent conversation with someone about most common subjects, and some that aren't so well known, and even if I was clueless, I would be interested enough to at least listen to what someone had to say and to try and get an understanding for the topic in which they are talking about. I also thought that that was the normal way to approach things, but the more I look at the world and the people around me, the more I see that that seems to be dying out.
It's also very common in the subject of 'Current Affairs', so many people wouldn't have a clue what the top new stories of the week so far had been, but they do that every week, completely ignoring newspapers, radio, television and interenet news. A lot of people of my generation take pride in the fact that they don't really care about what's going on around them, surely that cannot be a recommended way to live your life? This may well contribute to some of the worlds problems, a lack of basic understanding as to what is going on around you. It upsets me to see that this way of thinking is becoming the norm when news and information on every subject you could wish to know about is now easier to come across than ever.
Hrumph, sorry, it's been bugging me all day. Rant over.
Rain. Well, today has been soggy to say the least. It's welcome in my opinion, even if it does make things look miserable. To get a good crop this year we need rain like this to continue for at least a month and I for one would be glad of natures help to stop food prices rocketing (as long as the farmers aren't being cheated).
It did mean that my first day of Student Ambassadoring for my University was pretty soggy. The main part of my job was taking people on a campus tour. Luckily my group was small so it was easier to walk and talk instead of standing at each place in the rain, but we still all got dutifully soaked. The free lunch, wages and cake did make up for it a bit though.
One of the Engineer boys was also working today, which was nice, as it meant I knew someone there, and had someone to ask silly questions as it was my first time. Since he was already back in his house (his 'car' is a Defender, so he came back early, too expensive to go back home only to come back at the weekend, even if his car can run on vegetable oil costing less than £1 a bottle from the Supermarket!) we decided to grab something for dinner from the co-op, and we spent the evening at his, having a bit of a catch up.
I then made the journey home, which was alright, again apart from the rain being an inconveniance. This morning had been a bit slow, the rain was fairly hard, but by that time there wasn't too much surface water and people could have been safely travelling faster than they were. This evening though, a whole days worth more of surface water, and a load of people driving like morons in the dark.
I spent most of the journey travelling on Country Roads (single carriage A roads and a couple of B's towards the end, but neither of those are single track and only a section has no markings in the middle) averaging somewhere between 50 and 60 in the sections that were national, dependant on the puddles and the road layout. This was a safe speed as far as I was concerned, but I wouldn't have gone any faster. There were people going in the other direction and over taking me at ridiculous speeds, hitting large puddles at frightening speeds and one guy nearly crashed his Jag as he went past me aqua-planing.
I did have my own little episode on one of the B roads though. I was coming down a hill (aka slope at which water usually gathers at the bottom, although I didn't think of this) at just under 40 mph and even with beam on couldn't see the BLOODY HUGE PUDDLE all the way across the road until the last second, I braked heavily and hit the water pretty fast, it was a bit scary, but I kept the car under control and was just glad there was no one there to see me!
In other news, I Emailed all of the National Parks the other day, to see if any of them had any possibilities of placement, and I've had a few fairly positive sounding responses today, so I will keep you posted in due course.
Ta-ra a bit!
As you probably know, today has been wet, very wet, thus has lead to many complaints on my Facebook feed about the weather, and the fact that people don't think we can be in a drought with all this rain.
To be quite honest, yes that seems logical, but also a basic knowledge of how the water table works, and some common logic that although there's been a lot of rain today it won't make up for 18 months, can tell you that it's easily not going to be enough for us to be automatically out of a drought. This kind of thinking bugged one of my pet hates. Ignorance.
In the occasional instances, yes ignorance is bliss, but not in day to day life. I don't intend to imply that I'm not ignorant about some things at all, and I think that is perfectly fine, but I do think that I have a good general knowledge, that will better with age and more life experience, but I know a lot of people my age, older and a bit younger that just have no idea about even the basics of common subjects. I feel that I would be able to hold a reletively intelligent conversation with someone about most common subjects, and some that aren't so well known, and even if I was clueless, I would be interested enough to at least listen to what someone had to say and to try and get an understanding for the topic in which they are talking about. I also thought that that was the normal way to approach things, but the more I look at the world and the people around me, the more I see that that seems to be dying out.
It's also very common in the subject of 'Current Affairs', so many people wouldn't have a clue what the top new stories of the week so far had been, but they do that every week, completely ignoring newspapers, radio, television and interenet news. A lot of people of my generation take pride in the fact that they don't really care about what's going on around them, surely that cannot be a recommended way to live your life? This may well contribute to some of the worlds problems, a lack of basic understanding as to what is going on around you. It upsets me to see that this way of thinking is becoming the norm when news and information on every subject you could wish to know about is now easier to come across than ever.
Hrumph, sorry, it's been bugging me all day. Rant over.
Rain. Well, today has been soggy to say the least. It's welcome in my opinion, even if it does make things look miserable. To get a good crop this year we need rain like this to continue for at least a month and I for one would be glad of natures help to stop food prices rocketing (as long as the farmers aren't being cheated).
It did mean that my first day of Student Ambassadoring for my University was pretty soggy. The main part of my job was taking people on a campus tour. Luckily my group was small so it was easier to walk and talk instead of standing at each place in the rain, but we still all got dutifully soaked. The free lunch, wages and cake did make up for it a bit though.
One of the Engineer boys was also working today, which was nice, as it meant I knew someone there, and had someone to ask silly questions as it was my first time. Since he was already back in his house (his 'car' is a Defender, so he came back early, too expensive to go back home only to come back at the weekend, even if his car can run on vegetable oil costing less than £1 a bottle from the Supermarket!) we decided to grab something for dinner from the co-op, and we spent the evening at his, having a bit of a catch up.
I then made the journey home, which was alright, again apart from the rain being an inconveniance. This morning had been a bit slow, the rain was fairly hard, but by that time there wasn't too much surface water and people could have been safely travelling faster than they were. This evening though, a whole days worth more of surface water, and a load of people driving like morons in the dark.
I spent most of the journey travelling on Country Roads (single carriage A roads and a couple of B's towards the end, but neither of those are single track and only a section has no markings in the middle) averaging somewhere between 50 and 60 in the sections that were national, dependant on the puddles and the road layout. This was a safe speed as far as I was concerned, but I wouldn't have gone any faster. There were people going in the other direction and over taking me at ridiculous speeds, hitting large puddles at frightening speeds and one guy nearly crashed his Jag as he went past me aqua-planing.
I did have my own little episode on one of the B roads though. I was coming down a hill (aka slope at which water usually gathers at the bottom, although I didn't think of this) at just under 40 mph and even with beam on couldn't see the BLOODY HUGE PUDDLE all the way across the road until the last second, I braked heavily and hit the water pretty fast, it was a bit scary, but I kept the car under control and was just glad there was no one there to see me!
In other news, I Emailed all of the National Parks the other day, to see if any of them had any possibilities of placement, and I've had a few fairly positive sounding responses today, so I will keep you posted in due course.
Ta-ra a bit!
Tuesday, 24 April 2012
2 weeks of no blogging.
To be quite honest, I can only apologise for the 2 weeks of no blogging. Again, I have no excuses, but that seems to be the story of my life.
Quite a bit has happened in these two weeks, maybe I was so blinded with excitement that I forgot to blog (or not... I'm just lazy).
Firstly, it was my birthday! Huzzah, I am now in my 3rd decade. Birthday was a very good 3 day affair, which I wasn't expecting. On the evening prior, the Elder Basons, the Boyf and I went down to the new Flaming Grill that has opened in town. The food was great, but it was extremely busy for a normal Thursday evening and so it took nearly an hour for our food to arrive.
On the Friday, various things happened. I was lucky to get some wonderful presents including a new all singing all dancing hair dryer, a Keep Calm and Relax cushion, a Keep Calm and Canter On hoodie (seeing a theme), jewellery, money, books, clothes and National Trust membership. I am very grateful for all of these things. But I'm afraid the Boyf trumped them all by buying me an Angry Bird for my car (if you don't know what Angry Birds is 1) you haven't lived and 2) google it, I have the white one). It's now hanging proudly from the back window and always makes me giggle slightly when I see it.
I also went riding that day. I rode a wonderful horse called William, who is pretty much perfect. He did everything I asked and Mummy Bason and I had a wonderful time, jumping fences of a height (not a great height to anyone else) we both hadn't jumped for months. It was a great way to spend the afternoon followed by going to the pub in town with a few friends to see my friend's band do their first headline set. They were brilliant and decided to announce to the pub that it was my birthday. This was followed by a night out on the town with some of said friends, which involved far too many bottles of free 'champagne' (that perry they put in bottles that make it look like champagne) because it was my birthday (produce ID saying it's your birthday in town and that's what you get, I wasn't going to say no!).
Feeling a little delicate the next morning, the Elder Bason's and I went off to the BASC (British Association of Shooting and Conservation) Game show at Catton Park. It was a wonderful day and we spent FAR too much money, but it was all bargains that we wouldn't get anywhere else and was worth the investment that day. The biggest savings were made at one of the clothing stalls. First of all we spotted hoodies, for £5!! This was a branded clothing stall well known in Country circles. Reduced from £35, all 3 of us dutifully kitted ourselves out with a new hoodie. The next thing we found was the biggest bargain of the day. We found two wonderful tweed coats for... £20!! Reduced from £100! Mummy Bason and I both snapped them up (I spent some birthday money on mine, a very good buy indeed). I'm so so pleased with it, it's very warm and will last me at least 10 years, hopefully more. Other various items such as a coat for Dad and some wonderful food were also bought, overall a very good day.
You'd think that Sunday would be a relaxing day after the previous 3, but no, I went to Wales, and not just the bit near to home, I went all the way to the South West bit of Pembrokeshire for a job interview. I'm not going to say much about that as I haven't heard the result yet, but the drive there and back, although long was beautiful! It didn't rain once! I spent 6 hours driving, but loved it. I took the mountain road between Newtown and Aberystwyth and the coastal road between Aberystwyth and Caernarfon. Both stretches were blissful and quickly became two of my favourite places to drive.
Somewhere on the mountain road I stopped in a lay-by for lunch and made two new friends. They were so cute and so I may have sneaked them a polo each through the fence!
Also, on the way there I went through the beautiful little town of Aberaeron, unfortunately I didn't have time to stop on the way there, but made a point of doing so on the way home. I got there around 4pm, and decided to snack on couscous on the beach. I was the only person there and it was so quiet that all I could hear was the sound of the sea, truly wonderful.
It had all the pretty pastel coloured houses, which I adore, and I would love to say I owned one, I particularly like the idea of a pale pink or orange one. This was the view from the beach into the little harbour.
After my little adventure to Wales, things did calm down during the week. I went out to see friends a couple of times, but that was about it. Most of my time has been taken up looking for other options for the placement job, should the one I had the interview not be successful. It's starting to get pretty nerve-racking now, but hopefully something good will come.
The weekend was spent riding again on the Saturday and then a family meal on the Sunday. That was a wonderful afternoon, with 12 of us eating at my Uncle and Aunts. This is usually annual affair in late January, but for one reason or another got moved to April this year. My cousin and his fiancé weren't there this year, due to the cousin being on his stag weekend. We have been informed by his father that he was still alive Sunday morning and of all the ridiculous outfits his friends had made him wear.
Monday and today have been quieter. I've had some bad news regarding my summer job, the two training days are completely impractical, thus meaning I probably don't have a job. One of the dates is on one of my exams and the other is in Edinburgh, with no accommodation and only £40 towards expenses (I don't mean to be greedy but including accommodation, that's not a lot) and is the same weekend that I'm volunteering at a festival that I am really looking forward to. I have applied to a couple of others instead today, so hopefully I will be lucky to find something else, but only time will tell.
Finally, Mummy Bason and I went shopping this afternoon, and she bought me a new straw hat, perfect for the festivals and other camping trips I will be embarking on this summer. I am very proud of said new hat, so just need some sunshine to accompany it now.
I endeavour to be better with this now, partly so that I don't have to type so much at once!
Take care!
Tuesday, 10 April 2012
The Battle of Basing House
First weekend of the season back with my regiment in the Sealed Knot has been absolutely cracking. Most of it was spent with the Boyf and the two Sussex boys but most of the people on our regiment are friends with everyone else so it was great to be back with everyone.
Managed to leave an hour earlier than planned due to being packed up and ready earlier and the managed to do the journey in less than 3 hours without stopping which was nice. Having got to the site we realised that the area in which our regiment had been delegated camping was going to be tight to say the least, therefore we were pitching tents within very close proximity (not always a good thing) so we ended up camped almost under the trees next to one of the Sussex boys.
The afternoon and evening were pretty uneventful with the evening spent at the pub on the edge of the site. This pub turned out to be horrendously over-priced and wasn't visited again unless to use the loos.
Saturday was also rather uneventful as due to the lack of battle (we hadn't realised this before) by was spent mainly sitting around drinking before me and 4 of the boys took a trip to the local Tesco (mainly for more booze). This was highly entertaining due to the Boyf's attempt at directions on the rubbish map we'd been given and the fact that half of us were wearing our kit. This lead to our regiment traitor nearly slipping over in the middle of the busy store on the hobnails on his boots, highly amusing to watch.
That evening was spent with the Boyf and the two Sussex boys on our joint principle of refusing to pay the pub's prices. The evenings were bloody freezing and the family that usually bring the Brasier weren't here do we attempted our own. To be precise this was 3 candles! They were worth it more for the heat than the light but never mind, much fun was had by all and we occasionally got a little more heat when the Boyf and one of the Sussex boys had cups of tea, thanks to the camping stove. Oh and the warming sensation that you get from a swig of good port,
The Sunday was better due to the opportunity to actually do something. Drill in the morning was made midly entertaining by the two Sussex boys (the Boyf would have joined in but he's in the pike block, we're musketeers or in my case carry water for the musket) all they did was pick on me or ask if I was carrying any port instead of water.
The afternoon battle involved a pointlessly long and hilly walk so that we could launch 'a sneak attack' in a planned battle... Which was a very short and quite chaotic affair, which also involved the Sussex boys getting bored and asking for port again.
The evening was spent doing gate guard, something that people usually try and avoid but it was the only place that had a fire and we had chairs, more port and Easter eggs so we were happy to oblige. Much fun was had by all and we staggered off to bed at about 1am.
Monday was well, wet to be quite honest. This was when we realised that none of us in our little group had a tent big enough for us to all sit in, next battle the Boyf and I are taking the 6 person tent which has a great wet weather seating area in the middle. We got dutifully soaked and managed to get out of drill as they didn't want to risk the guns getting wet. All this meant was we were all bored and wet until the afternoon which was spent doing a crappy pre-battle display and then another crappy and unorganised battle before we all plodded home, damp but happy to have taken part.
After a better nights sleep in a proper bed, I'm still not sure that I'm ready to face Tuesday but we'll give it a go anyway.
Back later!
Managed to leave an hour earlier than planned due to being packed up and ready earlier and the managed to do the journey in less than 3 hours without stopping which was nice. Having got to the site we realised that the area in which our regiment had been delegated camping was going to be tight to say the least, therefore we were pitching tents within very close proximity (not always a good thing) so we ended up camped almost under the trees next to one of the Sussex boys.
The afternoon and evening were pretty uneventful with the evening spent at the pub on the edge of the site. This pub turned out to be horrendously over-priced and wasn't visited again unless to use the loos.
Saturday was also rather uneventful as due to the lack of battle (we hadn't realised this before) by was spent mainly sitting around drinking before me and 4 of the boys took a trip to the local Tesco (mainly for more booze). This was highly entertaining due to the Boyf's attempt at directions on the rubbish map we'd been given and the fact that half of us were wearing our kit. This lead to our regiment traitor nearly slipping over in the middle of the busy store on the hobnails on his boots, highly amusing to watch.
That evening was spent with the Boyf and the two Sussex boys on our joint principle of refusing to pay the pub's prices. The evenings were bloody freezing and the family that usually bring the Brasier weren't here do we attempted our own. To be precise this was 3 candles! They were worth it more for the heat than the light but never mind, much fun was had by all and we occasionally got a little more heat when the Boyf and one of the Sussex boys had cups of tea, thanks to the camping stove. Oh and the warming sensation that you get from a swig of good port,
The Sunday was better due to the opportunity to actually do something. Drill in the morning was made midly entertaining by the two Sussex boys (the Boyf would have joined in but he's in the pike block, we're musketeers or in my case carry water for the musket) all they did was pick on me or ask if I was carrying any port instead of water.
The afternoon battle involved a pointlessly long and hilly walk so that we could launch 'a sneak attack' in a planned battle... Which was a very short and quite chaotic affair, which also involved the Sussex boys getting bored and asking for port again.
The evening was spent doing gate guard, something that people usually try and avoid but it was the only place that had a fire and we had chairs, more port and Easter eggs so we were happy to oblige. Much fun was had by all and we staggered off to bed at about 1am.
Monday was well, wet to be quite honest. This was when we realised that none of us in our little group had a tent big enough for us to all sit in, next battle the Boyf and I are taking the 6 person tent which has a great wet weather seating area in the middle. We got dutifully soaked and managed to get out of drill as they didn't want to risk the guns getting wet. All this meant was we were all bored and wet until the afternoon which was spent doing a crappy pre-battle display and then another crappy and unorganised battle before we all plodded home, damp but happy to have taken part.
After a better nights sleep in a proper bed, I'm still not sure that I'm ready to face Tuesday but we'll give it a go anyway.
Back later!
Thursday, 5 April 2012
Preparing for battle
Today quite frankly has been a very lazy day. I wasn't even up and dressed until just gone 3pm and wasted my
morning watching whatever ITV had to offer on morning TV. All that really happened is I got angry at that Samantha Brick woman on This Morning (who incidentally isn't pretty) and then swooned a small amount over Peter Andre (there are better men but he's more attractive than Samantha Brick) on Loose Women.
The afternoon was mainly spent slowly getting up, showered etc but when I was finally functioning I did do a couple of loads of washing before picking Mummy Bason up from work and scrounging £50 worth of petrol from her (thank you!).
The Boyf then arrived and after a little while we did the very much dreaded tent inspection. I realised about a month ago that it had been out away wet way back in September and could very well be totally disintegrated and unfit for use at the weekend. Very luckily (probably due to it's home being in an un-heated caravan) the tent passed the inspection! It is a little mouldy in places but will be fit for use this weekend after a few applications of mould killer spray tomorrow morning.
The camping this weekend is for the first battle of the season, which I am very much looking forward to. In other battle preparations, The Boyf and I took a trip to that ever helpful supermarket to get the food. We have packet pastas and rices a plenty, breakfast that doesn't require milk and various tinned items. This goes against all my farmers ways of cooking good quality meals with fresh, fairly local produce (yes, I'm a student). But it is only for 4 days and there's not a huge amount you can do with a camping hob, limited gas and some rubbish 'saucepan' things. I did have to laugh when we were in the biscuit aisle and the Boyf picked up 1 packet of cookies before turning to me and asking 'is 1 packet going to be enough or are you going to get the drunken munchies?' he knows me far too well...
Anyway, this will be my last post for a few days as I go and kick some parliamentarian arse for the weekend. One thing the new fangled phone is not very good at is battery life so it's not going to see much use for now. Have a good weekend being all Easter-y.
Ta-ra a bit
morning watching whatever ITV had to offer on morning TV. All that really happened is I got angry at that Samantha Brick woman on This Morning (who incidentally isn't pretty) and then swooned a small amount over Peter Andre (there are better men but he's more attractive than Samantha Brick) on Loose Women.
The afternoon was mainly spent slowly getting up, showered etc but when I was finally functioning I did do a couple of loads of washing before picking Mummy Bason up from work and scrounging £50 worth of petrol from her (thank you!).
The Boyf then arrived and after a little while we did the very much dreaded tent inspection. I realised about a month ago that it had been out away wet way back in September and could very well be totally disintegrated and unfit for use at the weekend. Very luckily (probably due to it's home being in an un-heated caravan) the tent passed the inspection! It is a little mouldy in places but will be fit for use this weekend after a few applications of mould killer spray tomorrow morning.
The camping this weekend is for the first battle of the season, which I am very much looking forward to. In other battle preparations, The Boyf and I took a trip to that ever helpful supermarket to get the food. We have packet pastas and rices a plenty, breakfast that doesn't require milk and various tinned items. This goes against all my farmers ways of cooking good quality meals with fresh, fairly local produce (yes, I'm a student). But it is only for 4 days and there's not a huge amount you can do with a camping hob, limited gas and some rubbish 'saucepan' things. I did have to laugh when we were in the biscuit aisle and the Boyf picked up 1 packet of cookies before turning to me and asking 'is 1 packet going to be enough or are you going to get the drunken munchies?' he knows me far too well...
Anyway, this will be my last post for a few days as I go and kick some parliamentarian arse for the weekend. One thing the new fangled phone is not very good at is battery life so it's not going to see much use for now. Have a good weekend being all Easter-y.
Ta-ra a bit
Wednesday, 4 April 2012
Insurance Saga
Today has been a little rubbish. But there have been some good parts :) picked up the parcel that I missed the delivery of yesterday. The Wales job interview had posted the hoodie back to me that I left behind. Although I got up very early to pick it up after reading the opening hours wrong on the card.
After that I went in the bath, and then there was another parcel the postman tried to deliver, but not only was I in the bath, I had a bright green face mask, on so I definitely wasn't bothering to get it!
I then went to the bank to ask to extend my overdraft. I wasn't excepting the process to be so challenging! The woman (who was pleasant but didn't seem very friendly) quizzed me and them announced she had to send it off to the main customer service whatever it is an they would tell me in 4 hours. Eventually it was all done and I'm now not surviving the Easter Holidays on a measly £18.
This evening was spent with the Biyf, a long with many hours spent talking to the lovely (ahem) people at Admiral about my claim from last September. In the end we just found out that they'd done everything wrong and were pretty much starting from the beginning again. Mummy Bason and I are going to write an angry letter!
These were pretty much the highlights of my day... Yes it was that good... On an actual good note, the final decision has been made and we are going to the muster at Basing House at the weekend, so we have something to look forward to.
Bye for now
After that I went in the bath, and then there was another parcel the postman tried to deliver, but not only was I in the bath, I had a bright green face mask, on so I definitely wasn't bothering to get it!
I then went to the bank to ask to extend my overdraft. I wasn't excepting the process to be so challenging! The woman (who was pleasant but didn't seem very friendly) quizzed me and them announced she had to send it off to the main customer service whatever it is an they would tell me in 4 hours. Eventually it was all done and I'm now not surviving the Easter Holidays on a measly £18.
This evening was spent with the Biyf, a long with many hours spent talking to the lovely (ahem) people at Admiral about my claim from last September. In the end we just found out that they'd done everything wrong and were pretty much starting from the beginning again. Mummy Bason and I are going to write an angry letter!
These were pretty much the highlights of my day... Yes it was that good... On an actual good note, the final decision has been made and we are going to the muster at Basing House at the weekend, so we have something to look forward to.
Bye for now
Monday, 2 April 2012
Bloody NHS
Today I have spent 5 hours of my life at the hospital and to be quite honest it was boring. I arrived at the hospital just over half an hour before my first appointment and after faffing around with change for parking (£6!! Outrageous) I got to the department for the MRI scans 27 minutes early. According to the letter I only had to be there 15 minutes early so I thought all was good. I filled in the safety form etc and the nurse or whoever she was came across with a gown for me and went through the questions and procedure with me. Having done this twice before it didn't take long and I was changed and ready to go by ten to eleven for an eleven o'clock appointment.
I waited in the little cubical with the curtain open just as I was told for a little while, and just presumed they were a bit behind when it got to 11:15 and no one had come to me. Time ticked on and at 11:40 someone came out to say 'Hi, we've got a small delay, which I guess you've noticed, we'll be with you shortly' OH REALLY? Well I hadn't gathered that already... Also if that's a short delay god knows what a long one is! 2 days maybe?
I was eventually seen at 12 and after nearly falling asleep in the scanner and being told off by the man for fidgeting (I was losing the circulation to my arm, but never mind) I got out at 12:45. Bugger, I was meant to stop eating 15 mins ago according to the letter for my 2nd appointment of the day and I was running on the one Malted Milk I'd had as some kind of breakfast. Deciding to throw caution to the wind I scoffed a pasty just before 1 and went to my next appointment's department. The rest of the day was a lot smoother an I spent my time waiting wisely like a good Uni student and did over an hour's revision in the waiting room.
The second appointment was an exercise test, which I was dreading. I'm not one for doing a lot if sport apart from riding and even that I haven't done for weeks. Last time I did this test I was 8 and had to do the test on the treadmill. I HATE running... Today was my lucky day, I did the test on the bike instead which is something I fair a lot better with and managed to complete the full test time (just).
I spent the evening at the Boyf's house (the dog liked me this time) and the allocated meal and pudding of pizza and garlic bread and cheesecake undid all my hard work this afternoon. We did play Wii Sports and Mario and Sonic at the Olympics though, does that count?!
Tomorrow looks to be a lot more relaxed, but I may well go on the Wii Fit and rowing machine though.
Ta-tah for now!
I waited in the little cubical with the curtain open just as I was told for a little while, and just presumed they were a bit behind when it got to 11:15 and no one had come to me. Time ticked on and at 11:40 someone came out to say 'Hi, we've got a small delay, which I guess you've noticed, we'll be with you shortly' OH REALLY? Well I hadn't gathered that already... Also if that's a short delay god knows what a long one is! 2 days maybe?
I was eventually seen at 12 and after nearly falling asleep in the scanner and being told off by the man for fidgeting (I was losing the circulation to my arm, but never mind) I got out at 12:45. Bugger, I was meant to stop eating 15 mins ago according to the letter for my 2nd appointment of the day and I was running on the one Malted Milk I'd had as some kind of breakfast. Deciding to throw caution to the wind I scoffed a pasty just before 1 and went to my next appointment's department. The rest of the day was a lot smoother an I spent my time waiting wisely like a good Uni student and did over an hour's revision in the waiting room.
The second appointment was an exercise test, which I was dreading. I'm not one for doing a lot if sport apart from riding and even that I haven't done for weeks. Last time I did this test I was 8 and had to do the test on the treadmill. I HATE running... Today was my lucky day, I did the test on the bike instead which is something I fair a lot better with and managed to complete the full test time (just).
I spent the evening at the Boyf's house (the dog liked me this time) and the allocated meal and pudding of pizza and garlic bread and cheesecake undid all my hard work this afternoon. We did play Wii Sports and Mario and Sonic at the Olympics though, does that count?!
Tomorrow looks to be a lot more relaxed, but I may well go on the Wii Fit and rowing machine though.
Ta-tah for now!
A Sunny Sunday
Today has been a wonderful day! I went back to church this morning, it was great to see a lot of new people in the congregation, boosting the numbers, including a few new families. It was also brilliant to catch up with some of my friends, The Twins being the main ones. I've known them since we were all 2 and we have some wonderful memories. The service was great with a drama for Palm Sunday written by one of our members.
Went home for a few hours and enjoyed a lovely roast pork lunch before heading out again. It was with The Twins again, but this time for a job, they had asked me to do some work for them taking photos and producing promo material (something I currently dabble in as a very small business) for a charity concert they are doing to raise money for their trip to work in an Albanian orphanage running music workshops in September. The concert is going to be at church in July and I will unfortunately be missing it due to
working.
After taking the photos at church and discussing requirements we headed to Derby for a monthly gig Sunday Night Live, that is put on in the Costa in the big shopping centre. This gig is organised by a group of people from a Derby church, one of which is a good friend of ours.
The music isn't always by people under the christian genre, but there is always a person being interviewed about a religious experience or event they are part of in between the two acts. They are always very interesting and talk about wonderful things. The two acts tonight all happened to be people younger than me and The Twins and are all friends of ours that we know through our old school and some of them the church too. The first girl was very nervous but played and sung beautifully. She played the guitar for most of it but also had a eukelele which made a great change for a couple of songs. The other band are an awesome four piece called Double Helix (they are on both Facebook and Twitter) who sung a mixture of their own material and a few covers. They performed brilliantly and were full of energy. The drummer is a very good friend of ours and all four of them are at our old school so it's great to support them.
After coming home I started some of the flyer and poster design for The Twins which I have emailed to them. Hopefully they will like the design etc and it can be full steam ahead for the rest of the work.
Tomorrow will mainly be spent at the hospital, which I am not looking forward to.
Until then, have a good day :)
Went home for a few hours and enjoyed a lovely roast pork lunch before heading out again. It was with The Twins again, but this time for a job, they had asked me to do some work for them taking photos and producing promo material (something I currently dabble in as a very small business) for a charity concert they are doing to raise money for their trip to work in an Albanian orphanage running music workshops in September. The concert is going to be at church in July and I will unfortunately be missing it due to
working.
After taking the photos at church and discussing requirements we headed to Derby for a monthly gig Sunday Night Live, that is put on in the Costa in the big shopping centre. This gig is organised by a group of people from a Derby church, one of which is a good friend of ours.
The music isn't always by people under the christian genre, but there is always a person being interviewed about a religious experience or event they are part of in between the two acts. They are always very interesting and talk about wonderful things. The two acts tonight all happened to be people younger than me and The Twins and are all friends of ours that we know through our old school and some of them the church too. The first girl was very nervous but played and sung beautifully. She played the guitar for most of it but also had a eukelele which made a great change for a couple of songs. The other band are an awesome four piece called Double Helix (they are on both Facebook and Twitter) who sung a mixture of their own material and a few covers. They performed brilliantly and were full of energy. The drummer is a very good friend of ours and all four of them are at our old school so it's great to support them.
After coming home I started some of the flyer and poster design for The Twins which I have emailed to them. Hopefully they will like the design etc and it can be full steam ahead for the rest of the work.
Tomorrow will mainly be spent at the hospital, which I am not looking forward to.
Until then, have a good day :)
Sunday, 1 April 2012
Saturday fun
Today has been fairly busy for a Saturday that isn't away from whichever home I'm living in at the time.
I spent the morning at the Boyf's house, which was nice although the bloody dog didn't remember me so didn't appreciate me walking straight into the house. We spent most of the time playing on the wii with younger brother, which was nice as the Boyf isn't known for being nice to his siblings.
I took a pack of leftover burgers from the BBQ to his for lunch as they needed eating. They were a bloody good buy! Waitrose Aberdeen Angus Steak burgers, which I will definitely get again. I hate to be a supermarket snob, but I will miss Waitrose this month! After some time lying in bed with Boyf and the family cat Kitkat who I absolutely adore, I went off to watch Mummy Bason ride and see everyone up at the yard.
It was really nice to be up there again, as I haven't been up there any weekends since Christmas. I've now got a couple of lessons booked in for later in the holidays.
This evening was spent watching The Voice, BBC 1's new talent searching contest, which I am starting to love. The difference with this show is that 1) all the hopefuls have been scouted for their talent so there are no wannabes that actually sound like cats and 2) the auditions are 'blind' so the 4 coaches (Will.I.Am, Jessie J, Tom Jones and Danny O'Donnoghue ) actually have their backs to the artist as they audition I like it because it's fresh and a bit different to X-Factor etc which are getting a bit samey. All that really happened after that was that O cleaned my little hamster out! He's so cute.
That's all for now. More will follow tomorrow I should imagine.
I spent the morning at the Boyf's house, which was nice although the bloody dog didn't remember me so didn't appreciate me walking straight into the house. We spent most of the time playing on the wii with younger brother, which was nice as the Boyf isn't known for being nice to his siblings.
I took a pack of leftover burgers from the BBQ to his for lunch as they needed eating. They were a bloody good buy! Waitrose Aberdeen Angus Steak burgers, which I will definitely get again. I hate to be a supermarket snob, but I will miss Waitrose this month! After some time lying in bed with Boyf and the family cat Kitkat who I absolutely adore, I went off to watch Mummy Bason ride and see everyone up at the yard.
It was really nice to be up there again, as I haven't been up there any weekends since Christmas. I've now got a couple of lessons booked in for later in the holidays.
This evening was spent watching The Voice, BBC 1's new talent searching contest, which I am starting to love. The difference with this show is that 1) all the hopefuls have been scouted for their talent so there are no wannabes that actually sound like cats and 2) the auditions are 'blind' so the 4 coaches (Will.I.Am, Jessie J, Tom Jones and Danny O'Donnoghue ) actually have their backs to the artist as they audition I like it because it's fresh and a bit different to X-Factor etc which are getting a bit samey. All that really happened after that was that O cleaned my little hamster out! He's so cute.
That's all for now. More will follow tomorrow I should imagine.
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