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Tuesday, 13 December 2011
Bethesda Headphones Sweepstakes
Bethesda are hosting a sweepstake giveaway for some Astro A40 headphones with customised sides. They look rather cool in case anyone is interested. The competition ends on the 20th December 2011.
You can get to the sweepstake here.
Good luck y'all.
Thursday, 10 November 2011
Does Berocca Really Work?
Wired have an interesting article on what each ingredient does here and seems to conclude that actually Berocca does nothing for you unless your body cannot make its own supply of Vitamin B12 or Biotin etc.
Sunday, 16 October 2011
The Sims 3 Pets is on its way.
Well The Sims 3 Pets is coming our way (at least, to us in the UK) at last and I thought I had better put out there Crinrict's great blog post about preparing for Pets and what to do before installing it. Pets is going to change how the game works so a lot of mods and such
You can get to Crinrict's blog post here.
Ciao
Sunday, 8 May 2011
Wednesday, 20 April 2011
Satellite
Did you know that the International Space Station (ISS) only arches over the UK's end of Europe once every 50 years?
Me and my parents found out that the ISS was in fact going over France tonight, which meant we could see it. So we went outside and wow! was it bright.
Apparently it's going over again on the 22nd of April directly overhead and will be twice as bright. So take a look ;-)
Sunday, 17 April 2011
To the rescue!
So now we've got a baby Robin in an old washed up ice cream tub surrounded by leaves and twigs. Now what?
Apparently, Robins don't like bird seed or crushed mosquitos (which Dad quickly supplied) but do eat cat food. Ok ...
Anyone have any ideas?
Tuesday, 12 April 2011
Shops
Why do some shops have their air conditioning set to 'As hot or as close to the sun's heat as possible'? We can hardly buy anything if we've melted into a puddle.
Tuesday, 5 April 2011
April
I love April - it's the one month when I can sing Little April Shower from Bambi. Let the rain commence.
Tuesday, 22 March 2011
Things I've Learnt
- Never marry a man who thinks he can do DIY - marry a man who can pay for someone else to do the DIY.
- The saying 'chilly bits' ('nuff said)
- The song 'Close the Door they're coming from the window'
- That no matter what you do your younger sister will always be untidy
- The hot chocolate at our nearest station is really nice
- If someone ever asks me what's for dinner, I should say: '***t with sugar on'
- Never, and I mean never hang nice clothes in your wardrobe using wire hangers. Never!
Monday, 21 March 2011
My Train Journey
Mum drove me to the station, she had shopping to do anyway and this way we could say goodbye just before I leave. I readied for tears, just in case.
Everything was going fine, the train arrived and Mum said 'Here's your train' (remember that bit) and I got on and waved goodbye. Off I go.
Hang on, how come the train is going to the right? And isn't it a different type of train than I usually get at this time? Oh, a phone call from Mum.
Me: Hello?
Mum: You're on the wrong train.
So I thank you Mum for saying 'Here's your train' and making me nearly end up in Luton rather than Horsham. Although that was a nice hot chocolate.
Not only that, but about half an hour from my university, what happens - the train is put to a standstill for half an hour in the middle of nowhere because somewhere ahead a car had crashed into a bridge, making it potentially unstable.
So this post is dedicated to my Mum, who made it all happen and Jess, who turns out was on the same train (in carriage 1 whilst I was in 3) and went through it all too.
At least Mum was laughing too much to cry, in the end.
Friday, 18 March 2011
Spring
First snowdrops, then crocuses, daffodils, cherry blossom trees (or Sakura trees for those in the know), daisies, tulips and now blue bells.
I love spring!

Monday, 14 March 2011
Still Scary
It's been a while, hasn't it?
So far, university life is pretty clean sailing. I sleep more, I eat less and I don't have to juggle several subjects' homework every night. Easy.
I obviously spoke too soon. A few days ago I had ... an exam (dramatic music).
Ok, it was just a quiz - but it was a surprise one! And it made me realise something very important:
No matter how old you get, exams will always be terrifying.
Monday, 7 March 2011
Saturday, 5 March 2011
I Dunno
'A man walks into a bar, ouch.' -Carl
'What do you call a chicken who crosses the road, rolls in the mud and crosses over again? A dirty, double-crossing chicken.' -Dad
'Knock knock,
Who's there?
Boo
Boo who?
No need to cry it's only a joke.' -Me
'What do you call a fish with no eyes? Fsh.' -Catherine
'Two goldfish in a bowl, one says to the other, "how do you drive this thing"?' -Mum
That's it. Anyone got any better ones?
Wednesday, 2 March 2011
What's with the electricity?
As some of you may know, I had a rant about the plumbing in the building I live in on campus at my Uni. It's all fixed now (at the moment).
But now, nothing less than a power cut happens and makes every socket in the building obsolete. Of course I spent a good hour thinking my computer wasn't working and then sussing out EVERYTHING wasn't working and then just sitting there fuming about the injustice of it all.
So, I went to my seminar and hoped everything would be fine when I finished. Then I started thinking of the things I could do when I got back: play Sims? Ah, no. No power. Make some tea? Nope, no power. Microwave some lunch? No power! I'm lucky it's daylight or I'd have no way to read my book.
What the heck is there to do without electricity these days?
Picture: the front of my computer with its little light, which is ON!
Powerrrr! Hoorah!

Tuesday, 1 March 2011
What's with the plumbing here?
Take, for example the fact that last semester a lot of students on campus were suddenly bereft of hot water (or water at all) for a couple of weeks. And the pipes near my radiator started leaking - great that would be a wet school bag and damp, smelly washing to go with the soaked floor too. Thanks.
And now, being a new semester of course the university should have some more casualties. The pipes in my room started leaking again (luckily I caught it before it had a chance to ruin my new netbook) and scarily Springfield 5 (or was it 6? Whatever) had a proper flood and had to evacuate all of its students into temporary lodging. That's 24 students struggling to move all of their stuff in one visit (they were only allowed to go back once) and then dealing with their studies whilst unpacking.
Ok, they only have to live somewhere else for two weeks, but that's still a bother. Mr. Plumber (who I've become quite good friends with thanks to all the plumbing fiascos) told me today that in Springfield 5 (/6) the roof had actually collapsed with the hot water piping spewing its contents everywhere. Nice.
So all in all:
Plumbing = 1
Chichester = 0
Thursday, 24 February 2011
Sims 3 #4
The most prominent forum topic is http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/346420.page
But of course, it is all rumour.
One person mentioned how the SimGurus (mods of the forum) must hate all the bickering about these things when SimGuruMeatball then said 'No, quite the opposite. We love seeing how passionate you all are about what we make, it makes all the long hours and hard work worth it. ( Despite all the complaining)' which someone else then remarked 'so are you admitting that these rumors are 'true'? which is a good point.
Soo some people think it's going to be announced tomorrow, and some on Tuesday because there is a gaming conference on that day.
But I really want to know now >.< Gahh!
Tuesday, 22 February 2011
New legacy :D
My Sim is Fleur Varina, she's a Green Thumb, Love the Outdoors, a Hopeless Romantic and Easily Impressed aaaand Family-Oriented. Hoorah.
Well the first generation is meant to pretty much be a farmer, so here we go ^-^
Above: Fleur Varina in her new house.
Monday, 21 February 2011
Clash of the Titans
Still, after watching it for the second time today I still enjoyed it and I did like their take on the CGI used. Hmm.
Another movie that annoys me is Iron Man (and Iron Man 2) as the writers seemed to have just pulled at random parts of the full story of Iron Man and included them in the movie (technically, Stark shouldn't get the funky generator thing in his heart until much later in the whole thing).
And Batman! Ugh! How can Harvey Dent/Two Face die when he's supposed to kill Dick Grayson's (the first Robin) parents and cause Richard to become adopted by Bruce in the first place? I hope that doesn't mean they won't be putting a Robin in to the Batman movies ...
Anywho, rant over.
Saturday, 19 February 2011
Unusually Small Doors
We've always seen the tiny doors in Petworth on the way to my university, they hardly reach your waist some of them. We always assumed that they're so small simply because, then people were small. Turns out they're so small just because in those days doors were expensive (like windows) and so the smaller they were, the less money it cost to make them.
Sounds far more logical than our short-people theory. After all, stooping is free.