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[22 Sep 2009 | No Comment | ]
Award Winning Blog

Thanks to Jo’s Kitchen I have my very first blog award! Jo’s recipes featured in this blog last month and she has kindly awarded me the ‘Honest Scrap’ award for my blog.

I am rather excited about this as I quite like winning things and getting awards, but it doesn’t happen all that often. In primary school my teachers commented on what a gracious loser I always was. Apparently I would always smile and be happy about the successes of my peers. My netball team in the primary school league ‘Thornber’s …

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[3 Nov 2008 | No Comment | ]

Tuesday night was my leaving do with my team and it was so much fun. We did a quiz at a wine bar and came 4th. Not bad eh?! Well it is when there are only four teams. But we enjoyed the wine, and the competition. The snow started whilst we were in a pub down the road, which turned Joann and I into a pair of kids for a couple of minutes whilst we ran outside, made snowballs and threw them at people (we knew) inside the pub.
On Friday …

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[21 Mar 2007 | No Comment | ]

I do worry about myself sometimes… I’m sure anyone who knows me worries about me and my randomness. I have just finished reading ‘Are you Dave Gorman?’ which in itself in not strange in the slightest, it is a very funny book.
I started reading it on Monday. It was my second reading of it. My first was after buying it because I saw it in a bookshop and remembered how much I had loved the show (the mpdg – that’s ‘miles per dave gorman’ had appealed the mathematical side of …

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[10 Feb 2007 | No Comment | ]

Oh yes… after years of trying we WON the pub quiz!!! Now just to defend the title (which might prove more difficult as half the team has buggered of skiing this week!) we’re currently recruiting back up team members.
Along with the joy of winning came a £50 bar tab – which between 9 of us (yes ok we won with a large team… but nevermind, we still won) isn’t exactly a whole heap of money, but it’s at least a pint each. I have been entrusted with it until week …