Archives for: November 2006

A game of chance

Now this is gonna be a bit of a weird entry...I'm mainly doing it for myself, or anyone that ever wants to know but can't remember.

I'm talking about Kiwi fruits, one of the yummiest things in the world. I love eating them and haven't had any for months and months, but I picked up a couple the other day, I just cut one up and mmm kiwi ^_^.

But the main point of this post, yes, Ok when I eat a Kiwi I like to save the nice bit till last. Anyone whos had a Kiwi before should know what I'm on about. Inside the kiwi one half has a bump at the bottom and the other is completely smooth.

As you can see, both ends of a kiwi have bumps on them, the question is, what makes the inside so different?

bump no 1

bump no 2

I always have to guess which will be the right end (smooth end) but I pretty much always get it wrong, but now I wont have to because of this blog entry of mine, and to anyone also wanting to know, well here you go :)

I will call the pictures above bump no. it and 2, you can see this in the alt text, if you don't know what I'm on about well the first picture is no 1.

Now is the minute you've all been waiting for:

no 1

no 2

ok so as you can see the part of the kiwi that has the bump inside is the exterior with the really bumpy bump. so from now on when eating a kiwi, go for that part first and then the less bumpy exterior as the smoother bit is just nicer :)

I thank you for your time ^_^

Yay life drawing

Ok well after what is it...7 weeks of life drawing (I think) we have had a model today, and one two weeks back. And finally I've been able to draw slowly, as opposed to 10 second and 30 second sketches.

Anywho more to the point, the two models we've had (Bill and Barry if I remember right) have both been guys (a first for me) but I've really enjoyed it so far, I'll post up a picture I did today, we had 15 minutes at the end of the session so I tried my best.

Altho his hand sucks, other than that I'm happy with it :) since I'm so used to drawing women it's good to have a change :).

Barry

Ugh I hate the fucking hand!

I wish I had taken a picture of him now though, so I coulda finished the picture.

Amazing Soup

Ok so after making the pumpkin (this was a week ago now) myself and Charlotte were tied over making pie or soup, Bill suggested pie, but I felt soup was easier. So I got the ingredients and stuff, and oh my golly gosh, made soup.

This actually being one of the first things I've really made from scratch, I used single cream, a oxo cube, three carrots, a small onion and some pumpkin mush :P. I cut everything up tiny, except for the carrots which I just made into circles, then I shoved it all in the pot, in a specific order, I didn't just throw it in.

Soup in the process of being made

After a long time I decided to call it done, even though it wasn't really really hot like I like soup. But I didn't wanna make the cream curdle or something scary O_o.

I then dished it out, the soup being the food myself and Charlotte had for our birthday meal, and I must say I was really happy with it. It tastes so yum (much nicer than I had expected) Soup is so easy to make, and I'm actually gonna make some more this week.

Looks yum

Now I know what you're thinking, that's not pumpkin soup...well it's Catherine's pumpkin carrot soup with a hint of pumpkin or something like that ^_^

Next soup I shall make will be game related ^_^ how creepy.

Mr.McLeod the bestest Law teacher

Ok I know this is a little late, but I did Morris and Wadwell, so I have to do McLeod, I have a whole list of blog entries I have to do, so they may be a little old in what they're talking about...but at least it means I've done them ^_^.

Ok well Law is a subject we could only start at sixth form, we (we being Charlotte and myself) picked it as one of our test type subjects and we liked it so we chose to continue.

Now I don't want to sound rude, but the first year of law was kinda boring, the English legal system ain't that fun to learn about, and to this day there are still some bits of it I never really understood. There were good fun bits though.

The highlights of the first year though were the trips to various places, and parties ^_^ it was the only subject where we really got a trip or two (bar of course the art ones to the Tate and Barcelona) Now I really think some people only stayed in Law because of the trips, and of course the few who wanted to take law at uni.

But myself and Charlotte were actually considering dropping Law after the first year, as not to be mean but he has the kinda voice that can send you to sleep. But we liked him so much we decided to stick with it and got a full A level, now I must say the second year of Law was amazing compared to the first, doing Criminal Law is so much fun, although there's a lot of it to learn.

Yet I still after learning lots and revising only got a D which I was kinda bummed about, as I thought I did really good in the exams, but obviously I didn't. Anywho enough about me, Mr McLeod really knew how to let a class have a fun time, except for those lunchtime lessons ^_^ he will be missed just as much as Mr Morris and Mr Wadwell, I feel we had the coolest teachers for our subjects. (Good thing we dropped ICT :P although it would have been real fun to have Mr Waller as a teacher in the second year :( )

Anyway thanks Mr McLeod for the fun two years, you are missed greatly.

Mr McLeod kinda crappy picture