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.
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Wednesday, 31 March 2010
Wind and rain!
SORRY I HAVE abandoned my blog for the last few days, however I have returned home now to Cornwall! Unfortunately however we do have reliable internet here, especially if it is windy when we quite literally do not get internet at all! We cannot get broadband at all so when it does occasionally decide to work here we only get a very slow dial up connection!
It has been very wet and windy here, forgot how much it rained in Cornwall! It is weird being home again, with the constant buzz from four younger siblings. My younger brother, who is 11, scarily losing track of how old he is! Anyway he can defiantly cook a lot better than Nathan, without any assistance, well apart from his little assistant; our 4 year old sister. He has cooked shortbread, chessey bread and scones all since I have been back!
I am defiantly enjoying the home baking though and can say it is much better than Nathan’s cooking! Although I would say he probably managed to beat Nathan with the mess he made, he did manage to spread the flour pretty far!
Well I can hear the rumours “can I cook dessert” from my brother coming from the kitchen so its looking good for me again tonight!
It has been very wet and windy here, forgot how much it rained in Cornwall! It is weird being home again, with the constant buzz from four younger siblings. My younger brother, who is 11, scarily losing track of how old he is! Anyway he can defiantly cook a lot better than Nathan, without any assistance, well apart from his little assistant; our 4 year old sister. He has cooked shortbread, chessey bread and scones all since I have been back!
I am defiantly enjoying the home baking though and can say it is much better than Nathan’s cooking! Although I would say he probably managed to beat Nathan with the mess he made, he did manage to spread the flour pretty far!
Well I can hear the rumours “can I cook dessert” from my brother coming from the kitchen so its looking good for me again tonight!
Friday, 26 March 2010
Everyone else has gone home ...
THE FLAT IS now empty apart from me with everyone else gone back home. I shall be off tomorrow on my long drive home.
Had a busy day doing student ambassador work at Drayton Manor today unfortunately we did not get to go on the rides though! However there was lush buffet lunch, which rather filled me up.
However I was still of course hungry when I got back, so had smoked salmon with cheesy mash potato and some seasonable vegetables, well Tesco frozen mix veg really but that sounds better!
So I am now sitting here writing this feeling stuffed and tired from a long day however I should pack and also do some uni work really!
I did all the washing up that was left in the kitchen, as anything that is left dirty gets chucked out. However it occurred to me whilst I was washing up; what is the one thing on a sink that is probably even more important it is there in a student flat! A overflow drain of course, with student forgetting and leaving the taps on this could prevent a big mess. However our overflow doesn’t work and the sink fills up and then floods, no I haven’t managed to flood the kitchen before! Just thought that was a bit stupid really, well anyway. I have also emptied the fridge of all the stuff that was left in there that will go off, I think otherwise some of the stuff may have smelt and looked interesting on our return in two weeks!
Had a busy day doing student ambassador work at Drayton Manor today unfortunately we did not get to go on the rides though! However there was lush buffet lunch, which rather filled me up.
However I was still of course hungry when I got back, so had smoked salmon with cheesy mash potato and some seasonable vegetables, well Tesco frozen mix veg really but that sounds better!
So I am now sitting here writing this feeling stuffed and tired from a long day however I should pack and also do some uni work really!
I did all the washing up that was left in the kitchen, as anything that is left dirty gets chucked out. However it occurred to me whilst I was washing up; what is the one thing on a sink that is probably even more important it is there in a student flat! A overflow drain of course, with student forgetting and leaving the taps on this could prevent a big mess. However our overflow doesn’t work and the sink fills up and then floods, no I haven’t managed to flood the kitchen before! Just thought that was a bit stupid really, well anyway. I have also emptied the fridge of all the stuff that was left in there that will go off, I think otherwise some of the stuff may have smelt and looked interesting on our return in two weeks!
Thursday, 25 March 2010
Easter Nearly here ....
WELL IT APPEARS Easter is pretty much here!
Ben and Nathan have gone home today for the holiday leaving just me and Simon here for a couple of days until we will both be gone too!
I finally helped Nathan pop his balloons today, as he had quite a lot left! Apparently he does not like popping them because of the noise and that a couple of them had flour in still! His room was stinking of rubber though so it would have been awful if he left them over Easter as they continued to slowly deflate. However with a knife I quickly popped all of the balloons. Then he set off home with his Mum who had come to pick him up!
I am very pleased with my Thirteen package as it has had well over 2,000 views in just twenty four hours!
We had fun last night however I will wait to tell you about it until the video I filmed is ready, so keep an eye here! However it has something to do with Nathan attempting to cook!
Ben and Nathan have gone home today for the holiday leaving just me and Simon here for a couple of days until we will both be gone too!
I finally helped Nathan pop his balloons today, as he had quite a lot left! Apparently he does not like popping them because of the noise and that a couple of them had flour in still! His room was stinking of rubber though so it would have been awful if he left them over Easter as they continued to slowly deflate. However with a knife I quickly popped all of the balloons. Then he set off home with his Mum who had come to pick him up!
I am very pleased with my Thirteen package as it has had well over 2,000 views in just twenty four hours!
We had fun last night however I will wait to tell you about it until the video I filmed is ready, so keep an eye here! However it has something to do with Nathan attempting to cook!
Wednesday, 3 March 2010
Settled back to week of work
AFTER AN EXCITING weekend the week has settled back down to work and lectures. Nathan enjoyed another tinned meal last night! .... The only problem with Nathan’s tins are that they all have somehow had their labels taken off, wouldn’t like to say who had anything to do with that! .... Well it makes it quite interesting with half a dozen or so unlabeled cans, it is always good seeing what he is going to get to eat! He shakes them and feels the weight of all of them all in an attempt to work out what is what, all very amusing. Disappointingly, or luckily for him, he has always managed to open the one which he is after! There are still a few unlabeled cans left though, still waiting to be opened!
Ben has finally with a few words from Simon eventually decided to clean the blood off from the bottom of the fridge at last, nice! ... Well it is lucky he decided to clean up as he went back to his home today and is not back until next week so I didn’t really fancy it being left there or having to clean it myself.
It will be quiet in the flat this weekend, with just me and Simon as Nathan is going home too! Well surprise, surprise Nathan always goes home. We say this is his third home, after his parent’s house and the library! He says he has moved out from home however consider this; he goes home every weekend, pretty much, leaving Friday coming back late Sunday. He also goes to his aunts at least one evening a week to be fed and also his gran’s once a week. So all in all he cooks his main meal, well heats a tin up, twice a week! Of course he also has no need to do his laundry as he always takes it home with him. Most of the time he doesn’t even have to get the train home, dad’s taxi picks him up!! So do you really think he has moved out from home?
Ben has finally with a few words from Simon eventually decided to clean the blood off from the bottom of the fridge at last, nice! ... Well it is lucky he decided to clean up as he went back to his home today and is not back until next week so I didn’t really fancy it being left there or having to clean it myself.
It will be quiet in the flat this weekend, with just me and Simon as Nathan is going home too! Well surprise, surprise Nathan always goes home. We say this is his third home, after his parent’s house and the library! He says he has moved out from home however consider this; he goes home every weekend, pretty much, leaving Friday coming back late Sunday. He also goes to his aunts at least one evening a week to be fed and also his gran’s once a week. So all in all he cooks his main meal, well heats a tin up, twice a week! Of course he also has no need to do his laundry as he always takes it home with him. Most of the time he doesn’t even have to get the train home, dad’s taxi picks him up!! So do you really think he has moved out from home?
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