Uni done for another year!

WELL IT HAS been a busy few days and a good weekend but now all my uni work is in for another year! Apart from the work I have also been up quite a few other bits and bobs!

We had a nice BBQ on Saturday which was rather nice. Think with the nice weather suddenly a lot of people thought it was a good idea, as we weren’t on our own! Anyway after it slowly got started it was reasonably successful and we cooked a good load of food.

Then last night we went for Frankie and Bennie Monday Madness, 25% of your bill brilliant! Still not the cheapest but we had really nice meal, we were all really stuffed after that! I convinced Nathan to buy a 15” pizza which was meant to be for families, but he didn’t read that bit. Unsurprisingly he didn’t finish it, but it was a laugh.

And with the end of my work handed in there are only a few weeks until I move out for the summer! Then the new term is in sight and I will be a third year and then before I know it, it will be this time next year and I will be getting a proper job!

Nathan cooking a cake!

Nathan came back from the library the other day and we set him a challenge. We took him to the kitchen and set him the challenge of cooking a basic sponge cake. We knew this would be interesting, owing to his previously demonstrated cooking skills. We had set out all the required ingredients on the table, including a few extra like pepper and oregano.

After uming and aring for a bit and admitting he really didn’t know what he was doing he decided to get on with it. Attempt one, her put a load of plain flour in a bowl and then stirred in lots of water. He then decided this looked wrong so tipped it away and started again.
Attempt two started in much the same way with plain flour, but without water. He then preceded to add two eggs, quite a bit of water and some milk. He then decided to add some self raising flour and some sugar. It was not quite that simple, but eventually he decided it was finished.

He then set about lining the pan, which we use as a cake tin. The lining was interesting, with lots of separate bits of tin foil, however the greasing was even better with large chunks of butter left all over!

Poring in the mixture he decided it would need 2 hours on 250 degrees Celsius. After he put cake in the oven however we quickly turned the temperature down, so at least it stood a chance. It was then done and brought out of the oven. Unsurprisingly due to the lack of self raising flour it had not really risen at all.

We then got April, as it was her birthday, saying that Nathan has cooked a cake for her birthday. She cut the cake, after he had scraped it out of the pan. Then we all politely ate some, it tasted very interesting. It was a kind of mix between a pancake and sweet Yorkshire pudding, it was stodgy.

So this was Nathan’s cake cooking challenge. Please note Nathan uses explicit language



This is part 2!

Pretty much done for another year!

WELL I HAVE been so busy getting the end of this work done for University this year! So pretty much finished for this year now. Also excitingly only a few weeks left until I am of to Australia.

With all the work though I am looking forward to going out for my friend’s birthday tomorrow night! Well I have been thinking back through the highlights off going out this year! Obviously the ultimate has to be when Nathan got brought back in handcuffs! I wasn’t actually around as I was doing Panto, but I have defiantly heard a lot about it. There was a call out in the LRV, the club at Uni, saying that could anyone who knows Nathan please go to the front. Ben went and found bouncers around Nathan, who was insisting he was all right, and kept trying to get up only to be pushed back over. Eventually when he was chucked out him and Ben started walking home only for Nathan to put to hands on a fence and decide he wasn’t moving any further.

Well after an hour or so Ben decided to get security from where we live to come. After a while of being abusive and Nathan telling them “f**k of yellow coats” they managed to just start to get him to move. However then University security from the other site rolled up telling our security, it wasn’t their patch, but Nathan knew the security from our side. Anyway at this time Nathan firmly held back on to the fence and the police where promptly called. Nathan was again abusive and told them they couldn’t tell him what to do and as such they decided to handcuff him behind his back. They then spoke to Ben deciding he wasn’t too drunk; before they marched Nathan home and Ben had to sign to be legally responsible for him! In the morning Nathan wondered why he had marks around his wrists, because he had tried to break of the handcuffs. The other amusing thing was that it was Nathans aunt who sent the police out, as she works in the control centre, so when she put two and two together she rolled up at whatever time it was in the morning to see Nathan in such a state. Following this incident Ben create a Facebook group saying Nathan should not drink!

Just another, but rather interesting day at Uni! Other than this day however there have been many more eventful nights. Nathan is usually the worst when we go out, often collapsing in the hallway, although I am often not too far behind him!

Tonight I am going to eat ...

IT CAN MEAN only one thing that yet again Nathan has decided to have a tinned dinner. The only problem if of course that none of his tins have labels on them, leaving him to guess. He barely got them back from Tesco’s this time before Ben yet again got busy removing all the labels. This left Nathan with around a dozen unlabeled identical tin’s in his cupboard! Nathan does however seem pretty good at guessing what is what and yet again managed to select a curry, as he was after.

Been out all day today; busy with Uni work and shopping! I have made a few improvements today to my blog so please check out my sidebar and don’t forget to comment on my posts and let me know what you think!

All fat and fed!

YUM, ALL FAT AND FED and also good is that I have now managed to finish most of my work! Ben made his Spaghetti bolognaise for dinner which was rather good! I brought a cake tin whilst I was at home so decided to put it to good use and make a cake. I decided on making an Apple and Cinnamon cake so got going, whilst Ben was making dinner.

First problem I realised was of course no scales and I am not the best at judging amounts. Ben suggested I used my digital bathroom scales, so I tried them however they were not accurate enough, not even recognising when we put the entire bag of flour on them.

The next problem was that we didn’t have enough self raising flour, however with a quick trip around to next door that was quickly sorted. The next thing was that I didn’t have any caster sugar so Ben suggested I ground down the granulated sugar. Not having a pestel and morta I ground it down using the back of a meat tenderiser. After that I then set about adding my ingredients, I was a bit worried as it originally turned out more like dough but with a big of a extra milk it was all right. So I poured in into the tin and shoved it in the oven. Meanwhile I began to clear up as I had made rather a lot of mess!

An hour or so later it was ready and we all tried some. It tasted pretty good, considering I had guessed the amounts, I was pretty impressed. It didn’t taste quite right though, I think there was probably not enough sugar in it. But all in all was pretty impressed and even Nathan tried some as he had just got back!

Nathan managed to miss his train, so instead got a lift back with his Dad; sure he was happy with that! Ben decided to yet again wrestle him, trying to get into Nathans room. It lasted quite a while, backwards and forward with Nathan stronger but Ben kept getting his arm or leg jammed in the door. Eventually a knackered Ben gave up, allowing Nathan to quickly lock his door shut. Ben’s arm is now nicely grazed and he it knackered, but I suppose that’s what he deserved really!

First hand in!

NOTHING TO EXCITING happened today, handed in my first piece of Uni work this semester which was good! My brother left off to Derby to go and do his training weekend for Amazon.

Nathan has gone home for a long weekend, so Ben is busy planning what surprise he can have ready for him when he returns! Tried to upgrade my phone, as I am due an upgrade, but was a bit expensive for the Nokia N86 that I decided I wanted!...Oh well have decided to have a think on it but at least the nice people at T-Mobile gave me £5 of my bill whilst I decide! That’s about it other than that, just work, work and work!

Curry Times!

HAD A BUSY DAY doing work before we went to the pub! We where live on Midlands today, talking ahead of the election debate. Then after we did that we headed off to Weather spoons of course being a Thursday it was curry night! So we all had a nice curry and a drink which was nice, even if I did attract one weirdo!

Then went back to the pub and watched the election debate, with Ben trying to sit on Simons lap and feel his leg throughout. It does remind you that although Ben is the oldest in the flat, he is probably the most childish!

Anyway after that BBC Midlands did enough live links on how a few of us there found it. Now just chilling at home with my brother before he leaves tomorrow. So all in all was a pretty all right day and to top it all of the sun has been shinning! :-)

Alton Towers Fun!

HAD A GOOD DAY at Alton Towers with Ashley today! Was interesting though as there was more power cuts today, following the ones yesterday. The whole park was cut off, leaving lots of people having to be rescued off rides.

Started the day with a good time, rather busy but got in a good few rides in. We were sat eating our lunch and commented to each other that the Sky Ride has shut for a while. We then tried to access the other half of park to find out it was closed due to power problems. Whilst we were wandering around wondering what to go on next the whole park lost power. A lot of people got stuck on rides and needed evacuating!

It took them a while and a lot of people where really annoyed and wanted refunds. As there was power problems though funny how the managed to keep all the arcades open! There was an absolutely massive queue for quest services but it wasn’t really Alton Towers fault as the fault was outside the park.

Spoke to a few people who got stuck on things, including a few people who got stuck on Sky Ride for 2 hours! There was also a load of people stuck on the monorail for a good few hours! They eventually started starting up the rides though couldn’t run everything because of the ongoing power issues!

The new ride Thirteen though broke down quite a few times and once I saw them evacuating people from it down safety lines! ... Thought we where going to get stuck on ittoo, as we got to outside the station it stopped for about 5mins though eventually it started up and we went into the station.

At least all the rides where open until 19:00 and people got free return ticket, not much got for me with annual pass though!

Anyway more details of the power cut can been on my article.

Finishing the day with fruit strudle!

ANOTHER BUSY DAY, with working away at all my uni work! Had a Newsday today which went all right, I mostly covered the then breaking news of the Alton Towers power cut, pleased everyone is all right and that everything is back to normal. Especially as I am off there tomorrow for the day with my brither, Ashley.

The Newsday was all day today so left Ashley, who is up at mine, in all day and he made a fruit strudel. He wandered to Sainsbury brought the ingredients then he was back to get cooking. When I go back he said it was problematic cooking it in a student kitchen with no rolling pin and no scales, meaning a lot of guess work.

However it turned out pretty well, although the pastry was not quite right, Ashley think he probably put in too much flour! Other than that was lovely though, thanks! As he is staying here a few more days I am looking forward to some more cakes being whipped up!

Back to Uni!

SORRY FOR THE slight neglect of my blog, been busy with the family over Easter. Had a good couple of weeks and am now back to Uni and work, work, work to do. My brother has come up with me from Cornwall for a few days too so have some company too!

Been busy with some of my course work today, as well as a trip into town for some shopping! Everyone is back in the flat now; I was the last to arrive yesterday night. Went on a quick Tesco trip to stock up my bare cupboard with food. Nathan came along too.

Probably a bad move no sooner had we got through the door than Ben started antanginising. First chucking Nathans shopping at him, before attempting to yet again peel the labels off the cans. He then found out that Nathan has a slight blockage in his shower and that a porter was coming round to fix it. Bad move, as Ben quickly slipped into Nathans room switching the shower on full, quickly filling the shower tray to the brim. Ben was wresting Nathan to stop him switching it off as it slower got fuller and fuller. Nathan managed to turn it off a couple of times, however Ben would keep turning it back on. Eventually Nathan managed to lock Ben out of door however by then the water had gone over and although his bathroom was slightly flooded, though not badly.

Nathan was none to impressed with Ben for this, although harsh it was slightly amusing even if was taken too far! Good news though Nathan showers has now been fixed.

It is nice to be back in the flat though with everyone, so keep looking back here for more antics!

April Fools

I THINK I MAY have spoken to quickly about my little brother being able to cook well, his biscuits the other day where a little on the tough side! Apparently we didn’t have any plain flour, so instead he decided to use strong brown flour!

Heard about a funny thing from yesterday, being April fools. Well near where I lived Falmouth Coastguard received a Mayday call from MV Titanic at 7:10 on April the 1st. They first ignored the call from the boat in the Caribbean thinking it was an April Fools. It however turned out to be legitimate and US coast guard eventually rescued the boat.

As is now clear tradition, there were mainly April fools, including from all the papers. My favourite I think has to be from the Daily Mail who reported that the AA staff are going to use light weigh jet packs to beat the grid locked traffic. Also I love the Sun’s who had the first ever lickable newspaper page, the page had a small warning “may contain nuts”.

Of course it wasn’t just the newspapers and some stories, some people believed. The RSPB released a press statement, complete with pictures saying a polar bear had become exhausted and stranded on a Scottish island. This had an environment correspondent in Fleet Street very excited, until one of their colleagues pointed out the date on the top of the press release!
Check out a few of the other April fools in this amusing article. Also some amusing online stories too.