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Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:01:04 GMT

Happy birthday James!

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:08:19 GMT

First update of 2009

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:10:18 GMT

Happy New Year!

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:35:49 GMT

In celebration of our two years, I made some cakes:

There were 3 more but they got "tested" before I had the chance to ice them!

I've read 18

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:28:23 GMT

"The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed."
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to read at school and hated.
5) Reprint this list in your own LJ

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6The Bible (Only read a tiny bit of it see?)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
~~19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger~~
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
~~30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame~~
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
~~33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis~~
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
~~36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis~~
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
~~42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown~~
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute (I can’t underline this enough!)
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Results

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:35:01 GMT

I got a 2:1! I'm so happy and relieved. Mostly relieved actually.
NOBODY is answering their phones though so I can't actually tell anyone! Gutted.

Thu, 01 May 2008 00:06:11 GMT

Happy birthday Maria! x x x x

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:23:05 GMT

Wedding magazines are incredible! I'm stealing ALL their ideas, it's fantastic :D

I &hearts; these: http://www.imaginewedding.co.uk/May_butterfly_colourful_wedding_stationery.htm

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:06:36 GMT

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/7304452.stm

This is gross! Who'd want a jumper made from their dead dog? Eurgh.

LJ Sucks.

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:53:23 GMT

The new people that took over LJ have just removed the option for having a basic account. Looks like it's going to be adverts all round, and apparently paid accounts are not as profitable as having ads on a journal, and so these will probably disappear eventually soon.

Let's make our own journalling site, with blackjack, and hookers. [/bender]

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:54:18 GMT

It's Hallowe'en!

I'm doing an entry purely so I can use this icon. I made it a year ago when me and Andy made a pumpkin lantern. Not doing one this year because I am at work.

I had a horrible day commute wise yesterday, but I suppose when you have to take 6 different bits of public transport to get you there and back, something is going to go wrong each time. Lets just say, First York and First Leeds, you are ON MY LIST.

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:39:29 GMT

I'm watching old Neighbours clips on youtube and I've just cried my eyes out over Drew's funeral. Oh I am so sad. I love Libby to bits though, I'm glad she's coming back.

Sat, 21 Jul 2007 06:23:03 GMT

I've just finished it! I started at twenty to one this morning and just finished now at twenty past 7, read it all the way through. I'm not going to spoil it for any of you but it was fucking excellent and I'm so glad it was!

Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:17:01 GMT

Goodness me, I'm tired now! Resisting the urge to go and have a nap, if I have a nap it will just be one big circle of not being able to sleep and I really will turn into an owl or something.

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:03:00 GMT

We have moved in.
It rained all day, but it's unpacked now and looks lovely and cosy. The fridge doesn't work and I have spent the past couple of days waiting for it. UHT milk is a life saver.

I'll do a longer entry tomorrow while I am waiting for the fridge to maybe arrive.

I am officially moved out ... go me :)

Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:32:08 GMT

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/6760201.stm

Hilary made the BBC News!! If anyone wants to sponsor her, there is a link at the side :)

I'm an excited genius!

Tue, 08 May 2007 14:56:42 GMT

Because I got a first on my Articulatory and Impressionistic Phonetics exam!

I've also joined the uni gym, got a headache and received an email to say that my comfy lovely shoes are out of stock so I can't have them. Bollocks. But ... a first, yay!

Fri, 04 May 2007 21:27:55 GMT

I just orderd the shoes ... found them for £53.99, which with postage was cheaper than getting them at Millets with a discount code!

God I love online discount codes, absolutely Makes My Day!

Wed, 02 May 2007 19:18:17 GMT

Do I want to do the Level 400 Phonetics of Talk in Interaction, which will probably be difficult and will give me a headache over collecting my own data, but will make me feel like a proper phonetician and sounds more interesting than ...

The Level 300 Language and Identity, which will be difficult but not level fourHUNDRED difficult, but doesn't look so interesting?

Awk. I handed in the form saying the former, before they emailed us and removed the rule that we had to to a L400 module.

If I did L300, it would mean a 3 module term again, but I would get the third term completely free. Which would probably mean finding a job sooner.

Decisions, decisions. I'm still hoping that they don't look too closely at my form, and realise that I don't have the prerequisits for 2 of the modules I want to do. If they don't let me I'll have to do Middle English, nooooo not CHAUCER!

Is it too early to go to bed? If I go to bed now then I don't have to realise I'm here on my own!

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:32:41 GMT

Ok I answered this properly this morning (11pm is too late for self assessments clearly, if they end in gibbons.)

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:27:01 GMT

My dad's headship interviews have gone ok. He doesn't know the result yet though, and will probably find out on Monday. There are 4 other applicants, and he thinks it's between himself and the headteacher from Yelvertoft school. He also reckons that the head from Yelvertoft is the favourite, probably because he has head teacher experience already.

I hope he gets it, I really really hope he gets it.

Well, he is screwed if he doesn't! He can't drive and we live in a village, there is a headship going at Cropredy which he has applied for but I don't know how he will get there. He thinks that he will learn to drive. I think this is rubbish as he is actually unteachable and any driving instructor would be mad to take him on!

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 09:33:52 GMT

I've never come this close to wanting to drop out before. It's so boring, I don't like it and I don't want to do it anymore. Yet I know I have to.

:-(

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:26:02 GMT

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:27:02 GMT

I have run out of tissues. Life isn't fair.

JESUS HATES ME!

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:50:53 GMT

District Manager reckons that they haven't been deducting money, so that's both good, because they aren't stealing from me and I can go back at Christmas, and bad because I won't get a nice lot of money that I wasn't expecting.

I told my mum I was worrying about money and deposits and the money I owe Andy for train tickets. This morning she offered me the £200 that she's saved up from her wages. That makes me feel so awful, I can't bring myself to take it from her. I said she should keep it until we need to put down a deposit and I'll see how things are then. Argh.

I'm getting the train at ten to six to go and stay with Andy for the weekend and my bloody neck glands have swollen up again. Fantabulous :-/