Flu, Daleks and Photography 14.02.2010
Posted by TabitaW in people, tsk, uni, yay.Tags: dalek, digital photography, doctor who, family, flu, Martin, mattias, snowman, walk
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Right, so a slight lack of updates on this blog when comparing to the DK version. Fear not, however, I’ve just been a bit ill with the flu. Before I had the flu this was all that happened: I started back at uni, joined a photography evening class (also at uni) and went for several walks with Martin. Other than that, not so much.
Or actually, at home they made a snowman a few weeks ago. I wanted to upload a picture of it (they emailed me pics, yay!) but completely forgot so here it is. A snow Dalek! Seriously, how cool is that! I’ve been wanting to build one since the first snow fell but I didn’t get around to it while I was home for Christmas and the snow here melted over a month ago. Also, speaking of Daleks, I’ve got a slowly growing collection of them, must take pictures later.
Tuesday night (hours before I was attacked by flu) I went to my previously mentioned Digital Photography class. We were in the studio and took some photos. It was great fun and I got to talk to some of the others. (I’m the youngest in the class and it seems as though it’s quite obvious that I’m a student as opposed to everyone else who’s doing full-time jobs but people are really nice). Didn’t get to take all that many photos as we were about 15 people sharing the light and whatnot but we’re going back to the studio next week so should get some more then.
Of course the next day I woke up with flu, phoned the doctor and was told to stay in bed for a few days. Just great. As far as I know we were supposed to start new projects in all three modules Wednesday/Thursday so it’s not really the best timing but there’s not much to do about it now. Martin came to pick me up so I had someone to bring me soup and take care of me. It helped! I’m very much starting to feel better so should be able to go back to uni next week.
Cake 05.01.2010
Posted by TabitaW in well done.Tags: cake, eggs, explosion, mattias
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Right, so I decided to make vanilla sponge cake. I started off miscalculating the recipe (which was in my head in first place) and accidentally made four times the usual amount rather than doubling it as I’d planned. Not that this was a problem, there’s plenty of ingredients in the cupboards and the fridge.
Most people have probably heard that if you hold an egg in you hand and make a fist around it and just squeeze it, it’s designed to not break. I tend to try this every single time I’m making something with eggs in it and nothing ever happens. It just stays perfectly nice until you give up and break it the traditional way. Anyway, this time Mattias was in charge of the eggs so of course I had to dare him to do it. I knew nothing would happen but told him to hold his hand over the bowl anyway. Just in case. And then it happened – it exploded! The next few minutes were all fits of laughter and insides of egg dripping from everywhere in the kitchen. Most hilarious thing that’s ever happened to me while baking sponge cake. Maybe you had to be there.
Also, the cakes are just fine, just took them out of the oven and they look lovely :)
