12 – Finding a Home
Warning: it’s a long one. I’ve wanted to write this post for a while now. Not only was it a glaringly obvious gap in coverage of this year’s Egyptian year abroad, being, after all, the first thing you need to deal with on arrival in this cramped, hectic and dusty new world – but for [...]
Education kills creativity
Might be a funny thing to say, especially for a university newspaper. I’ve always advocated my degree as a means to an end. “£9k for a piece of paper” – if you will. How wrong I am. Well…not wrong, I don’t do “wrong”…only inaccurate. As undergrads you are meant to enjoy your degrees. But we [...]
Cordon Bleurghh: weird and wonderful culinary combos
This post is dedicated to dodgy food combinations which at first sound vile, but actually end up being pretty tasty. Remember the gummy little old lady from the Vicar of Dibley’s ‘quirky’ creations? Her repertoire included delights such as parsnip brownies, orange cake with Branston pickle frosting and pancakes with a ‘hint’ of liver, all [...]
HOI
In the interests of diversity I am one of the few at Leeds doing an ERASMUS funded industry year. Basically I am spending a year in the Johnson and Johnson research labs in Belgium and getting a “(industry)” at the end of my degree title for my trouble. Having been this side of the channel [...]
Best Basic Spaghetti Sauce
Eeek, so I have just done the first of two races after having a mild injury. I have been wearing those great heated back patches, oh they are SO GOOD. The week before the race had been the longest of my life, I woke up every morning preying that the first step I took wont [...]
Sexpert’s guide
Having been ill for the past few weeks… I would apologise for the lack of blog entries but I truly doubt many lives have been affected by this and if yours has I can’t say I wouldn’t judge you a little bit. …Anyway, yes, having been ill and spending most of my time bored out [...]
Kentish apples: juicy to the core
Last weekend I took a little trip home to Kent. Otherwise known as “The Garden of England”, Kent is a fruity paradise and a bit of beaut (apart from the bit that borders Essex, not so nice). Just down the road from where I live is Brogdale Farm, home to The National Fruit Collection which [...]
Perving
I really, really wanted to find the Arabic word for ‘perving’ for the title of this post instead. Believe me, I looked. But either Lonely Planet has made a conscious decision to omit this most crucial of terms or there are no words in the Arabic language harsh enough to describe the actual obscenity of [...]
The Reading Week Diet Plan
Reading week is a time for fun, excitement, going out (which explains the absence of my blog earlier this week) and in my case a far less healthy intake of food. Saturday night featured the consumption of not one but two takeaways to my unsuspecting body on the gruelling walk home from Propaganda. Specimen number [...]