Finally fixed trouble of the drier not doing its job properly when i do my washing.
Pressed the big scary button marked permenant press and boom, everything is dry.
Just thought you'd like to know :P
(also pub golf this wednesday, expect.....somthing to happen to me)
Monday 23 February 2009
Friday 20 February 2009
Hey It’s Been A While
So I haven’t updated this in a little while, mainly because I have really been to busy too. Last weekend I went to visit Ruth and her friends at Bangor University and it was a really nice weekend. The place is nice and quite, different to my life in a good way and it defiantly seems to be the right fit for Ruth. All the people were good fun and I like to feel that I was in my element of meeting new people and doing new things. It was also nice to catch up with mum and look around Carnarvon castle.
Things here are subdued as my housemate Will learnt that his dad had died suddenly. He has gone home for a bit and a sombre air is around both for his loss and the fact that we all miss him. Work continues to go well. I got a high 2.2/ low 2.1 on my last essay, which I am pleased with as I found it difficult. Unfortunately I did lose marks due to poor referencing and that was because I had run out of time to proof read it. Thus the next essay that I am doing, which is not due till next Friday was started today, just to give me that little more time.
Battle of the Bands has taken up a lot of my time and my finances recently and the final is tomorrow. Its been good fun and my mate Matt from Ben Lairig got two bands into the final, so that should prove to be a riot.
Will try not to leave it so long next time!!
Things here are subdued as my housemate Will learnt that his dad had died suddenly. He has gone home for a bit and a sombre air is around both for his loss and the fact that we all miss him. Work continues to go well. I got a high 2.2/ low 2.1 on my last essay, which I am pleased with as I found it difficult. Unfortunately I did lose marks due to poor referencing and that was because I had run out of time to proof read it. Thus the next essay that I am doing, which is not due till next Friday was started today, just to give me that little more time.
Battle of the Bands has taken up a lot of my time and my finances recently and the final is tomorrow. Its been good fun and my mate Matt from Ben Lairig got two bands into the final, so that should prove to be a riot.
Will try not to leave it so long next time!!
Sunday 8 February 2009
Snow Lakes
I went to the Lake District yesterday, and experienced some of the best snow weather that the Lakes have seen in about 20 years apparently. We saw the weather forecast on about Thursday and decided that we had to take advantage of it with a quick day trip. So at 6.30 on Saturday morning 5 proud Ben Lairig members set off towards the lakes.
We arrived at about 9 ‘o’ clock and kitted up, aware that we would need Ice Axes and Crampons to get the most out of the day. And what a day it was, we cramponed up a snow slope onto Catstye Cam and followed the ridge around. Then did Swirral edge which about 25 times better in winter with ice everywhere to summit Hellvellyn. Then round onto the Dodds and did Raise and then down via Sheffield Pike.
In the end we were on the hills for just over 8 hours and walked 10.98 miles (Jamie checked) bagging 5 peaks which allowed me to double my Wainwright count to 11.
It was a lovely day, made all the cooler as it was an unofficial trip and was really just a bunch of mates messing around on hills. We got a lot of walking and a lot of messing around done, taking photos and the like. Then it was off the hill for an expensive pint and then home to York for a cheap pint, a cheap burger and 14 hours sleep.
We arrived at about 9 ‘o’ clock and kitted up, aware that we would need Ice Axes and Crampons to get the most out of the day. And what a day it was, we cramponed up a snow slope onto Catstye Cam and followed the ridge around. Then did Swirral edge which about 25 times better in winter with ice everywhere to summit Hellvellyn. Then round onto the Dodds and did Raise and then down via Sheffield Pike.
In the end we were on the hills for just over 8 hours and walked 10.98 miles (Jamie checked) bagging 5 peaks which allowed me to double my Wainwright count to 11.
It was a lovely day, made all the cooler as it was an unofficial trip and was really just a bunch of mates messing around on hills. We got a lot of walking and a lot of messing around done, taking photos and the like. Then it was off the hill for an expensive pint and then home to York for a cheap pint, a cheap burger and 14 hours sleep.
Tuesday 3 February 2009
I Can Has Snow/House?
So once again it’s been a wee while between my updates on my life, but for once this has not been because I haven’t really been up to much, it has been because I have been so very busy. Firstly there is the usual rigmarole of working towards passing my degree, funny how much time that seems to be taking up this term as the work gets interesting and the deadlines get closer. Archaeological Theory, unless you actually want to dedicate your life to it, isn’t that useful to the day to day archaeologist as it is deeply rooted in academia and opinions and can be hard to get your head round. Add to the fact that not are we only studying theory but also the history of theory and it does end up requiring a lot of reading.
I also went on a pretty big bender last week, not through any misguided sense of fun but just a lot of my societies/friends all had things on last week and the long and the short of it was that I was out partying each night of the week and then making it to 9.15 lectures. However I cut it out for the weekend to give my body (and liver) well deserved rest and may not even go out tonight, Wednesday will be a different story as it is Ben Lairig committee elections!
Then on the Saturday we finally found the house that we want to live in next year and on the Sunday we signed for it. 7 bedrooms, 4 toilets, 3 showers, kitchen and a living room with a garden in a house that (according to the previous tenants) is cheap to heat and has a good landlord. The rent is cheaper than what we pay now for living in good ol’ C block so it’s a real find and is in a nice area. On top of and beyond all this I get to live with people that I really want to live with, so yaaay!
Then on Monday it snowed, a lot so we had a campus wide snowball fight, then a smaller one with the provost’s kids. Life is good!
I also went on a pretty big bender last week, not through any misguided sense of fun but just a lot of my societies/friends all had things on last week and the long and the short of it was that I was out partying each night of the week and then making it to 9.15 lectures. However I cut it out for the weekend to give my body (and liver) well deserved rest and may not even go out tonight, Wednesday will be a different story as it is Ben Lairig committee elections!
Then on the Saturday we finally found the house that we want to live in next year and on the Sunday we signed for it. 7 bedrooms, 4 toilets, 3 showers, kitchen and a living room with a garden in a house that (according to the previous tenants) is cheap to heat and has a good landlord. The rent is cheaper than what we pay now for living in good ol’ C block so it’s a real find and is in a nice area. On top of and beyond all this I get to live with people that I really want to live with, so yaaay!
Then on Monday it snowed, a lot so we had a campus wide snowball fight, then a smaller one with the provost’s kids. Life is good!
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