Trick or Treat

This Halloween was spent like any other festive weekend, making themed cupcakes!!

My best friend Shell was making some themed cupcakes for the owner of a new bakery that was opening soon, with the hope of getting a job making cakes for them when it eventually opens.

Unfortunately, the profit margin wouldn't make it worth while enough to do it full time, but nonetheless we had an incredibly fun day baking loads of cupcakes (60 to be precise!) decorated as everything from spiders to pumkins!

After a great day of baking, the evening was spent taking Shell's younger brother bowling with some of his friends for his birthday and dinner at the new 50s diner along Southend seafront. The food was ok, but a bit overpriced for what it was (burgers and hotdogs, think American diner!) and we had to wait a very long time to get our meal, but i'd say go for the experience, a real working duke box with 50s tunes playing, the classic black and white tiled floor and 50s icons plastered over the walls. But do jst go for the experience, the wait for the food soon makes the novelty of eating in a bygone era soon wears off!

Autumn Rambles

Sunday last (i have been waiting for some pictures until i wrote this!) once again the Autumn sun was shining, and our reluctance, as students, to do any work saw us head off on an Autumn jaunt around Virginia water.

With our wellies, hats, and scarfs on we enjoyed our jaunt around the lake, even daring the cold water and crossing the cascades, which was even colder for me as i braved it bare foot due to the fact i had no wellies and didnt want to get my boots wet! I can quite honestly say it was freezing, but quite refreshing once i had feeling back in my toes!

After a refreshing walk, feeling back in my toes, the sun shining, and the spotting of an ice cream van, we decided to take advantage of the Autumn sun and treat ourselves to a 99, aptly named for something that actually costs £1.90, and put on any calories we had just burnt off!

Then off back to the warm and comfort of our homes!

The saviour that is Skype!

When my boyfriend told me he was going to live in Egypt for 9 months, i won't lie, i felt just a bit heart broken. I couldn't imagine not being able to see him for such a long time!

So i would just like to take this oppourtunity to thank whoever it was that invented Skype! It means i can still hear from and see gorgeous Mr Bacon even though he is in a different country! It has significantly eased the burden of my aching heart, and everytime i hear an incoming call, it brings a huge smile to my face=]

Skype, from myself, and i'm sure many others, i salute you!

Home Comforts

I took advantage of reading week and my lack of work to come home for a couple of days, enjoy some home cooked food and a good nights sleep! Since my parents were on holiday my grandad came to pick me up from uni. Whenever he comes to pick me up he always comes really early in the morning in order to miss the traffic, so at 5 in the morning i was dressed and ready to go! Hearing the car pull up outside and grandads name come up on my mobile to let me know he was outside, i grabbed my bags and coat and off we went!

We chatted for a bit, i ate the sandwich he had lovingly made, then i dozed off until we were back home- i say home, but i actually mean nan and grandad's house, but since i spent my early childhood there, it will always be refered to as home.

After having a nap, i enjoyed a breakfast of bacon sandwiches and lots of tea! We spent the day chatting about uni, christmas and family stuff, stopping only briefly so nan and grandad could watch Judge Judy...which i must admit they have me slightly hooked on!

As usual we went out for dinner in the evening. Nan and grandad always say how proud it makes them to take me out, and i'm proud to go out with them- the best grandparents i think anyone could ask for!

After a lovely 3 course dinner, we headed home and had some more tea before we all turned in for the night. As i laid in bed that evening, i felt truly content after a lovely meal and amazing company, and i consider myself to be incredibly lucky to have grandparents like i do!

Microscopes and Mesofossils

When i got back from the lab today (already i sound like a crazy scientist!) i did my usual thing of cooking dinner and sitting down to watch Friends. Whilst watching it, it dawned on me that myself and Ross are remarkably similar. No i am not a man, but we both share a geekiness in our love of Palaeontology.

I've always really enjoyed the subject, and its deffinitely my favourite part of my Geology course. But working on my final year project has just enhanced my love for the subject! When i look down my microscope at the fossilised plant and pollen particles, i get excited that i can interpret the environment they once lived in! I just think it's fasinating, and i feel very sorry for all my friends and gorgeous boyfriend at the moment as i probably bore them to death telling them about, what is basically, a petry dish of very old bits of charcoal and mesofossil, most of them probably not knowing what a mesofossil is (fossilised plants and spores).

Thankfully for  them, today i finished a large part of my lab work!

Paranormal Activity

Saw Paranormal Activity the other day and the sequel last night. All that can really be said of them is that they are very scary and there are loads of bits that will make you jump! I don't think you need to know much more than this!

A night of fine dinning and alot of fine wining

The reason i have no money isn't down to the fact that i'm a student, my student loan is plenty for me to live on. The reason i have no money is because of Topshop and all the beautiful clothes, shoes and accessories they make to burn a hole in my purse. This means that the option to go out for a nice meal and bottle of wine is a rare one, so when my old house mate John decided to hold a dinner party i gladly threw on my glad rags and very much looked forward to a night that would deffinitely be one of lots of very good food and wine!

As we walked up to the house i could already smell delicious food cooking and my stomach jumped with excitement and hunger! The five courses of pate, partridge wine a tangy apple sauce, lamb with seasonal vegtables. cheese board and a chocolate parfait with passion fruit coulis where amazing, and after alot of very good food and wine i felt quite content (and about a stone heavier!). A game of 'who am i?' after dinner was very fun with everyone from Trevor Mcdonald to John Holmes (who i now know is the worlds most famous porn star) gracing our forheads!

After two rounds of 'who am i?' some truly amazing food and some very nice wine, we stumbled our way home. The cold Autumn night managing to sober us up a bit, but once home i still managed to fall over when getting changed for bed and scaring the cat! 

Our great hosts for the evening.