tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52866602011-04-21T19:04:03.604ZBexyRandom thoughtsbeckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07776704665217203435noreply@blogger.comBlogger351100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286660.post-1112401472059429292005-04-02T00:24:00.000Z2005-04-02T00:24:32.060Zgooglry eye beckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07776704665217203435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286660.post-1112401183251700862005-04-02T00:19:00.000Z2005-04-02T00:19:43.250ZSHOTGUN beckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07776704665217203435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286660.post-1112051880469819072005-03-28T23:18:00.000Z2005-03-28T23:18:00.470ZJust type this don't do anything else. Then press publish beckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07776704665217203435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286660.post-1086638970336647602004-06-07T20:09:00.000Z2004-06-07T20:09:30.336ZGo herebeckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07776704665217203435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286660.post-1078399776691539652004-03-04T11:29:00.000Z2004-03-04T11:32:32.686Zmmmmmmm.....
German Plum Bread today! Its had a long slow rise all night in the fridge (Didn't think I'd feel like doing all that kneading today. So just gotta prepare its topping and them wham it in the oven and enjoy. :-pbeckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07776704665217203435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286660.post-1078331217481717022004-03-03T16:26:00.000Z2004-03-03T17:55:23.170ZHeres some photos I took today while I was supposed to be tidying up, I thought they look a little like how I feel.
beckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07776704665217203435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286660.post-1078240099588183712004-03-02T15:08:00.000Z2004-03-02T15:13:15.186ZTo save me from the misery of reading more Silent Spring, Cath leant me "Blessed are the Cheesemakers" by Sarah Lynch-something or other. Despite the rather mills and boons front cover I gave it a go. It was actually really good fun. Very simmilar to Joanne Hariss' stuff like chocolat and Blackberry wine, all about the magic of food (In this case cheese), some of the magic must have rubbed off onbeckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07776704665217203435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286660.post-1077826413012842652004-02-26T20:13:00.000Z2004-03-04T11:26:58.246ZWell I finally decided to read Silent Spring by Rachel Carson in preparation for my dissertation althoughI'v been meaning to pick it up since I satrted this course.
Silent spring is often blamed/credited for having started the modern environmental movement in the 1960s. The basic gist of the book is pesticides are bad m'kay.
I mean in a way its all quite obvious, I haven't been surprised by beckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07776704665217203435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286660.post-1077711164882943332004-02-25T12:12:00.000Z2004-02-25T12:31:51.326ZIn our research design lecture on monday, the lecturer mentioned that somone was planning on doing their dissertation on assylum seekers in this the Post-Morecombe Bay Era of heightened public awareness that yes assylum seekers do work some dangerous jobs.
I sometimes wonder what planet these students live on, i mean do they reallly think theyt are going to be allowed on Brockbrushes farm or beckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07776704665217203435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286660.post-1073162589488550892004-01-03T20:43:00.000Z2004-03-04T11:24:37.403Zwell, I'm hoping that today marks the end of the festive season having just visited my family down in Malton. Jackie and Peter announced their engagement (wedding scheduled for Easter 2005), meanwhile me and ronan got ignored for almost the entire day, we were even placed on the "Kids" table for dinner, despite the fact that Ronan and I have been together for long enough to have our own three beckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07776704665217203435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286660.post-1071177360620275262003-12-11T21:16:00.000Z2003-12-11T21:17:06.340ZRonan's gone out to a party with some of his friend's from university, so I was going to go round and visit Jackie. Fortunately she called and suggested that we went out for a coffee instead, which was good because we never actually get to talk when I go round to her house because of endless demands and interruptions.
Anyway we were sitting in Cafe Picasso and i was asking for some advice on whatbeckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07776704665217203435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286660.post-1070969907345977882003-12-09T11:38:00.000Z2003-12-10T20:57:28.623ZTis the Season to be Jolly, peace on earth and goodwill to all men. Until Dec 26th and the January Sales and then I'll killl anyone who gets to that unmissable bargain of a lifetime before me. THE BASTARDS.
Or so goes the new song of Fenwick's window, obviously due to the fact that its been speeded up by 666% most people don't hear this. To their untrained ears it comes out something like Fa beckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07776704665217203435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286660.post-1070897680834379802003-12-08T15:34:00.000Z2003-12-08T15:35:42.030ZA very lazy weekend, I was at my most active when tucking into sunday dinner round at the Dodds'. Did no work at all, not even this photo project. Never mind, I'll have it and my "landscape assesment" assignment handed in on wednesday, and then apart from the ecology exam on the last day of the semester, that it and i'll be finished for xmas. if you can call it finishing, since i have so much beckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07776704665217203435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286660.post-1070744356480613552003-12-06T20:59:00.000Z2003-12-10T20:56:48.140ZHad a great time last night at the Live Theatre - But have been absolutely exhausted today as a consequence and haven't done anything.
Ronan's parents rang at about 12 today, saying they were going to pop in on their way home from town, so for ten minutes i frantically ran round doing a mad quick tidy up in the front room, so that Ronan's dirty clothes, at the least weren't drapesed around the beckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07776704665217203435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286660.post-1070540117878016302003-12-04T12:15:00.000Z2003-12-04T12:16:13.936ZGot My GIS/ Earth Obs assignment back, this morning with a mark of 69%. No bad huh?, maybe going to that wqorkshop tomorrow morning isn't so important after all...
Had to come in at 9am this morning - a bit of a shock to the system, and all to watch a video on the Fell Sandstones of the simonside hills and their influence on the soils of the areas/ Exciting stuff I can tell you. Outr lecturer beckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07776704665217203435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286660.post-1070448718491501692003-12-03T10:51:00.000Z2003-12-03T10:52:52.653ZA whole week since the last post, hope this isn't a sign of bad non-blogging habits coming back. However, there is an excellent excuse (isn't there always), I've had to do two assignments this week, my land management plan for Kielder and an essay for sustainable development on the sustainability of nomadic pastoralism. I've just sent them both off with Ronan to be handed in.
And I know I always beckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07776704665217203435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286660.post-1069711685195312692003-11-24T22:08:00.000Z2003-11-24T22:08:48.700ZRead a funny thing in the Ecologist round at the Stokers yesterday (Great dinner btw)...
"British Sugar, working in partnership with Tate & Lyle, also financed promotional activities coordinated by the industry association the Sugar Bureau. The chosen tactic was to produce ‘educational’ materials for schools offering health advice to children. One video asked: ‘What sort of foods cause decay?’ beckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07776704665217203435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286660.post-1069545629520152002003-11-23T00:00:00.000Z2003-11-23T00:01:09.576ZI've just arrived back from Simons via a Party in Osborne Ave. Some guy who was in Ronans year was throwing it. I left with in half an hour I think. Its not rational and I feel really awful for doing it but I panic, i feel shaky and sick and all I want to do is curl up under a table (which is what I used to do when I was little). I've left Ronan there to have some fun, and I'm under strict beckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07776704665217203435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286660.post-1069518882454806902003-11-22T16:34:00.000Z2003-11-22T16:35:21.623Zwell, silverlink was as terrifying as ever, particularly when going with a group of 4 people all desperately dropping "Christmas hints" to each other. Eurgh!
Came home with my brandspanking new printer, although there was a moment of panic when PC world had sold out (their's being the cheapest), so we went next door to comet and "price matched" them. For some reason though we got it £5 cheaper beckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07776704665217203435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286660.post-1069508692256690552003-11-22T13:44:00.000Z2003-12-10T21:05:35.920ZI'm just waiting for Jackie and Peter to pick me up at the moment. I'm going on an adventure to the Silverlink! No doubt Ronan will accuse me of abandoning him again like I did last week when i went to Kielder. Ah well, I did invite him to come shopping....
The mission for today is a printer, so no doubt there'll be some new photos up and around the house over the next few days. Talking of which beckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07776704665217203435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286660.post-1069428303098559032003-11-21T15:25:00.000Z2003-11-21T15:25:41.106ZI've been doing GIS most of the day today, trying to do a vegetation classification scheme i.e. use a remote sensored image to look at the reflectance characteristics of different types of vegetation and then do a map. Anyway, its pretty boring and I'll be relieved to be going home, even if it is to tidy up the flat.
I was meant to be bird watching in Ecology today but i couldn't work out where beckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07776704665217203435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286660.post-1069276669879358972003-11-19T21:17:00.000Z2003-11-19T21:18:25.670ZSo another day of idleness gone by. I was meant to be working hard on my Kielder project but instead i got sucked into a novel. Didn't even go to the Chimera project thing i was looking forward to. Ah well.
Tomorrows another day and meanwhile I still have at least an hour to have a look at the websites I found last night.
beckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07776704665217203435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286660.post-1069174922555024402003-11-18T17:02:00.000Z2003-11-18T17:02:36.966ZThere is dribble of wine down the monitor in the bottom left. A little token of last nights activities.
...I wrote a long post about last night and then deleted it. it can be summed up as follows...
I hate alcohol. I hate what it does to people. It brings out all the worst aspects of humanity. People turn to it night on night on night on night and then take pharmaceuticals becasue they're beckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07776704665217203435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286660.post-1069084581206069452003-11-17T15:56:00.000Z2003-11-17T15:56:53.483ZHehe exactly the same time as last week.
Going to the pub in a few minutes with Ronan's English lot, before I head off to Ecology. Went to Kielder day before yesterday, had great fun watching the forest harvester. I know think i understand how so much forest is chopped down - its because those things look like so muych fun to use! Hopefully i'll have some pictures of one in action soon.
Finally beckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07776704665217203435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286660.post-1068479635542516672003-11-10T15:53:00.000Z2003-11-10T15:54:18.750ZRight Ok. I have 10 ,minutes to write a short entry, before i meet Ronan (my lectures just been cancelled so we can walk home together, for once :-) ).
Just had a fantastic long weekend in welshland. Unfortunately the train journey home was carp. It lasted a ridiculously long time, and i managed to loose my camera. Obviously devestated about this, particularly as it had all the photos from the beckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07776704665217203435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286660.post-1064507080135599382003-09-25T16:24:00.000Z2003-09-25T16:24:39.990ZNothing to report just at the minute. Enjoying my fungi course and will be resuming frequent posting ASAPbeckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07776704665217203435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286660.post-1063373318759894092003-09-12T13:28:00.000Z2003-09-12T13:34:36.260ZArghhh.................
I haven't written anything for so long, All of the summer went by undocumented. Actually I think thats probably for the best. I haven't got long to write anything (I've got a driving lesson in 13 minutes). Anyway I think blogging must definitely be a term time activity (thats my excuse anyway). Looking forward to Bens Bday thing tomorrow. And really excited about stratingbeckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07776704665217203435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286660.post-955621892003-06-11T20:07:00.000Z2003-12-03T10:55:18.420Zbeckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07776704665217203435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286660.post-954318492003-06-08T18:58:00.000Z2003-06-08T18:58:15.200ZDefinitely Lemonade Weather Yesterday so made a nic big jug of it.
Crank's Lemonade
4 Lemons
175g of Sugar (caster will give the lemonade a light colour and plain sweetness, brown sugar's very good giving it a tofiness and very dark brown colour, honey is also OK to use)
300 ml boiling water
600ml cold water
Dissolve the sugar/honey in the boiling water. Add the juice of the lemons and then topbeckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07776704665217203435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286660.post-954164462003-06-07T22:29:00.000Z2003-06-07T22:43:21.000ZFULLY UPDATED VERSION WITH PHOTOSPAIEN ADDITIONS
Absolutely Shattered!
Got back from Holy Island about 5 today, and have just been totally washed out since then.
Today we all went to the Farne Islands as a kind of special treat for having worked so hard.
The boat trip was fantastic; saw loads of puffins ....
and cormorants and shags and Guillemots (don't think that’s how you spell it). But beckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07776704665217203435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286660.post-951311622003-05-31T21:09:00.000Z2003-05-31T21:09:17.636ZExciting day today. I bought myself a new lens. I part exchanged my two old (and shoddy) one for £90 (Jacobs only offered £40, the bastards), so in the end I got my beautiful new lens for £60. Also bought loads of film for holy isalnd which I'm very excited about. Ooh and we went for a bbq at the Dodds' house. MEAT! Nothing else very exciting been happening I'm afraid, and no interesting reading beckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07776704665217203435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286660.post-950867062003-05-30T16:39:00.000Z2003-05-31T21:02:59.000ZAk! It's so Hot!
Haven't blogged for a while, but now all my exams are over and I'm beginning to unwind a little. The Assignment I thought without a doubt I'd failed (For good reason having only written 1200 of the intended 2500 words) I got 68% for.
Only a few days to go until Holy Island, we had a meeting about the photography stuff, my only original ideas (i.e. those not involving, changes beckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07776704665217203435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286660.post-948695912003-05-25T20:12:00.000Z2003-05-25T20:12:16.130ZThere was something I wanted to say about the wedding yesterday, that Ronan won't mention, and that was about the really annoying photographer. I wanted to take a photograph of "the girls" (Ronan's 3 sisters and 2 of his cousins) and I set it up quite nicely, the idea being that Clare (bride) wouldn't be in the middle, becuase I didn't want her to be the subject of the photograph. So all set up, beckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07776704665217203435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286660.post-948664032003-05-25T18:10:00.000Z2003-05-25T18:10:48.000ZJust got an email from one of my lecturers to tell me that I've got 56% and 66% for the poster and report asssignment I finished a cople of weeks ago. Not as good as usual but bearing in mind the retards, I'm quite chuffed.
I'm very very grump today after yesterdays partying (no doubt ronan will tell all ). I'm still plodding away with the biology revision. Only a few more days to go and then allbeckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07776704665217203435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286660.post-946973662003-05-21T18:30:00.000Z2003-05-21T18:30:24.513ZBeen busy today with biology revision, which has been really depressing. I’ve been reading about biodiversity, and “miners canaries” such as the Gastric Brooding Frog and the Costa Rican Golden Toad (I can even impress you with their Latin names, Rheobatrachus silus and Bufo periglenes) and Fungi in Northern Europe – What if all the mushrooms disappear? – It’s too depressing to think about.
Been beckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07776704665217203435noreply@blogger.com