Bum.

Only a few days into revision and me and John have already gone wrong.
We spent the last couple of hours writing songs about poo.
We had a full conversation using only the words bum, cum and poo.

Here's a really good song

I got drunk on Friday and gave a tenner to a homeless man.

Ima go cook now.

FUCKING GOD DAMN IT

Tomorrow I will do this, I promise

Oh yeah, totally didn't forget or anything.

Promise I'll make this good tomorrow! 

Told you I'd do a proper blog!

I’m so happy everyone is blogging again, I will do my best to keep up!

Not much to report on the uni front, I am not a huge fan of psychiatry and I am certainly not enjoying it as much as I did orthopaedics.

Nothing hugely noteworthy has happened since I last spoke to you. I guess one big thing is I got the results back for the exam I had at the start of November, totally passed it (and was more than a standard deviation above the mean mark, not that I’m gloating about it or anything). This is the first uni exam that I have actually done well in and it feels pretty darn good.

This weekend I spent a fair bit of time traveling. I drove back to Bristol on Friday in order to spend all of Friday night and Saturday day playing the new COD (I am not very good at it online, people send me abusive messages). On Sunday evening I drove back to Swindon. I ate dinner with Chris and Doug and the Savoy and then went and saw Imperial Leisure at the Vic along with David and Miranda. They were super good and I had a fun evening. After a somewhat uncomfortable sleep on Number 9’s sofa I drove from Swindon to Yeovil which is a 2 and a half hour journey. I did however listen to the Clash Of Kings audiobook the entire way so if anything, the journey went by too quickly. After Yeovil I drove back to Taunton and now, here I am.

I extremely excited about next weekend when I am going to Beans On Toast’s birthday party/album launch with David. I am pretty sure all of you should come along too!

Now onto my challenge I set all those weeks ago, here are the best ever gigs (including festivals) I have been to:

1.       Frank Turner and the Sleeping Souls - 13/4/12 - Wembley Arena, London

How could anything else even come close, it was just so so good. He was also supported by Beans On Toast, Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip and Billy Bragg, you’re not going to get much better a lineup than that.

2.        Ben Marwood - 15/7/11 - 2000 Trees Festival

There was just something about this performance that seemed really special. Ben played the Greenhouse stage which was at the bottom of a big hill. The hillside was covered in hundreds of people sitting to listen to him. It was a really great performance.

3.       Frank Turner -10/11/12 - The Frog and Fiddle, Cheltenham

A very recent event but one that I enjoyed greatly. It was such an intimate show and we watched it from the front row. Frank was great and played at lot of the old tunes. I think I prefer it when he performs solo rather than with the band.

4.       The King Blues - 8/10/09-  O2 Academy, Oxford

A band which who I no longer like but still, it was a great show. They were supported by Imperial Leisure and POS. It was the first proper gig I had been to and was when I was still just becoming friends with Swindon people so I look back on it with fond memories.

5.       The Tallest Man On Earth - 23/10/12 - Colston Hall, Bristol

Another really recent gig so maybe my mid will change about it over time, but honestly it was such a good gig. I never imagined that he could possibly sing and play guitar so well live. It was beautiful.

I break up for Christmas in 18 days and I absolutely can’t wait. Hopefully see you all very soon after the 14^th when I am back!

Gold star for me for remembering

Hello all

Sorry it's been a while

I've been doing lots of fun stuff though! I went to Newcastle and Edinburgh, it was lovely to see people.

I got a real job with a real salary. I'm pretty excited about that. 

Saw Frank Turner in Cheltenham, that was amazing. And I got really drunk, and kinda ditched Billy, Chris and Doug which I feel bad about. Apart from that it was really gooooood.

Last week went to the pub with Harry and Chris which was nice, haven't seen them properly in ages. After that I met my mum and Juliet's mum and got very drunk. 

I worked on the fish stalls the last two Sundays, which is really fun. Nick and me get on really well, he says I'm like an annoying little sister. He looks like Voldemort... Only down side is that my winter coat smells of fish now so I can't wear it to work.

Last night I went out with my mum and Hattie and my mum's friend Mick. We went to this exhibition on female empowerment (by male artists) at Artsite and I don't think any of us thought much of it. Then we went to Piri Piri, then The Beehive and then The Vic. I DRANK TOO MUCH WINE. I may have been sick. I also saw Freya's sister Alice at Artsite. She was quite drunk it was quite funny, all her friends were really drunk too. It was amusing.

And now, I am about to go to my sister's to watch crap telly like Strictly and X-Factor. Highlight of my week.

So yeah I'm totally like best friends with Juliet's mum now. 

WE'RE HAVING CHRISTMAS AT THE LUFTS. I'm so so so excited.

It's the Imperial Leisure gig tomorrow eve, I think I will go. It would be nice to see people and they are quite lively. I'm not going to the Beans on Toast thing next week, I am going to the pub with my dad and Dawn. I hope you all have a super fun time.

It's the Old Town light switch on next week I believe, we should all go (whoever is around) Also lets go to the town centre ones too on 5th December, I hear Jahemene from X-Factor will be there....

I haven't really been to many gigs (can't seem to remember going to many) so I am going to include festival performances too:

Django Django at Latitude this year

Benjamin Francis Leftwich was really nice at Greenman last year

Frank Turner (Wembley and Cheltenham)

Bon Iver at Latitude again

And a final one ummmmm I don't know there are too many (sorry for being rubbish)

SAME TIME NEXT WEEK?

I remembered, are you excited?

Logging on was far too much hassle.

This week's been crazy busy.   I've had to change my dissertation topic because my supervisor is in hospital for an unspecific amount of time and the guy they put me with didn't have a clue what was going on.  I know its meant to be a go-away-and-do-it-yourself type project but he's totally indispensable.  And a lovely chap too.  So now I'm writing about prohibition gangsters which is much more fun than what I was doing before.  I just wish I'd been doing it from the start.

Watching the new adventure time - is it just me or is it getting less and less like a kid's show every episode?

The weather's been really shit recently so I haven't been enjoying Cornwall's full potential cause let's face it, no matter how beautiful a place is it's shit in the rain.  There's a mighty hailstorm outside right now and the noise is incredible.  I've been on lots of bike rides the last few weeks though, when the weather's been clear.  I've got a new favourite spot which is cool.  I don't really know what else I've been doing apart from the odd open mic night and trips to the pool hall.  Yeah, we hang out in the pool hall now cause we're fucking cool.  And I've been reading the Godfather (which is such a good book).

Will, my best gigs (of the few that I've been to) have been:

The Tallest Man On Earth (London 200..9?)
Sigur Ros (London 2008)
Mad Dog McCrea (Falmouth 2011)
Iron & Wine (London 2010)
And of course, every Polly and Kettles gig


Night

EDIT
Cath just sent me this

Holla

Just finished the first of the Game of Thrones books.
(Or should I say, just finished Game of Thrones the first of the Song of Ice and Fire books, whatevs.)
Yeah. That was good.

I was reading it on John's kindle and thankfully he hasn't got the second, as I haven't done a piece of work since I started it.

I have a test of Friday, worth 30% of my Molecular Genetics module, and then I have three exams on the 10th, 12th, and 18th.
Ew.

I'm book my Swindon train in a bit, probably for the 21st? I want to be around for Owen's birthday - it always gets forgotten about.

Last Thursday I had my last hand in, the sister came up with the boyfriend and it was also Harry's birthday. We went to Teviot and had a lovely time.

Friday I skipped Uni and took Krissy and Declan for a tour of Edinburgh, we walked across Holyrood Park, up to the Palace and the Parliament then up the Royal Mile to the Castle then down onto Grassmarket, back up onto George IV and then over to the Uni. I showed her the elephant skeletons and whale jaw bone in the medical school and then we went for lunch with Jess in Teviot. Afterwards Krissy and Declan got a bus to Aberdeen.
Pete did dinner for everyone then I went to Georgie's. We both ended up the night vomiting and then passed out on her sofas.

Saturday I didn't emerge from Georgie's until about 4pm. I went for 'lunch' with Pete then watched a film with Oli and Charlotte.

Sunday I spent literally all day reading Game of Thrones, then Krissy and Declan came back and we just chilled at the flat.

Monday I went for breakfast at Kilimanjaro with Krissy and Declan then they went to the zoo and I went to a lecture.

Yesterday I went to the Opera with Pete, Charlotte and Owen because CHECK ME OUT.
Twas The Magic Flute done in English in a steampunk style. Actually really good. Because we're younguns we get cheap tickets for all the stuff on at the Festival Theatre, so we're gonna be cultured innit.

This morning I have achieved little. I have a backed potato in the oven which I am about to eat, then I shall probably go to the library. YAY.

We're here, we're queer, we don't want any more bears.

Hi there!

I'm blogging, isn't this exciting for everyone? No? Well it should be.

Like Will I've totally forgotten how to do this. Also my housemate is watching me so it's going to be weird and awkward at best; I hope that's OK with everyone.

So what have I been up to? Well third year of Imperial is very similar to first and second year except extremely hard and horrible and I just want to be in bed all the time. A summary of my term would be:

• Chamber choir weekend away (I'm social sec now woo) this was crazy good and we got lots of freshers involved and I won a game where you picked cardboard up
• Home for Joe's birthday, increadible as always
• Visiting Kate is always nice
• I finished a computing project on solving coupled linear ordinary differential equations using different numerical methods, it was ballin
• On top of physics I'm doing a philosophy modual which is actually really interesting but I'm not very good at it.
• Giving a presentation on cosmic rays on thursday, it's 12 minutes long and peer asessed, unexciting.
• I have a house with a roof terrace that's pretty great!
• I teach guitar to a guy now, once a week, £10 for 45 mins, it's really fun.
• I do open mic nights sometimes, they're fun too.
• Over the past week I've been invited to THREE house parties, made me feel very popular!
• Doing lots of comprehensive exam preperation already, it's awful

 That's all I can think of right now though I'm sure there's more but yeah, life is OK but hard. I'm enjoying myself. Plus living in London is great, but I don't have any money.

Also all of my friends are getting summer internships but I'm gunna go on a choir tour instead.
I only just read your blog Will so I havn't had time to think of answers yet. I like billy bragg and 2000trees though because I'm predictable.

Love

FOOD

I like food.

Recently I have made,
A slow cooked vegetable tagine with onions, butternut squash, carrots, chickpeas, garlic, fresh parsley and coriander, chopped tomatoes, cumin and paprika; served roasted aubergines stuffed with onions, garlic, roasted vine tomatoes and feta; spiced cous cous with spring onions and home made tzatziki.

On Sunday:
Chicken slow roasted in white wine and garlic. (For the flatmates, I did not partake in the eating.) With roast potatoes, sage and onion stuffed, homemade yorkshire puddings, leek sauce, peas and red wine gravy. Sarah provided roasted carrots, parsnips and onions. And I made apple crumble and custard for dessert.

A few days ago:
Mushrooms stuffed with spinach, feta and spring onions topped with grated cheese and breadcrumbs served with cous cous and a ratatouille with onions, peppers, aubergine, courgette and chopped tomatoes.

YAY.

Best gigs. Hm.
In no particular order:
Muse at Royal Albert Hall, London
Cat Empire at the 02 ABC, Glasgow
Owen Pallet, although he was super adorable in Cardiff, I think musically RNCM, Manchester wins.
Duke Special in Oxford, the time he was supported by The Voluntary Butler Scheme.
AND Arcade Fire, Barrowlands, Glasgow. Probably.

I've been to so many gigs, I appear to have forgotten most of them.
So not sure about my top five ever ever, but they were definitely five damn good gigs.

This week I got really accidentally drunk on Friday, and don't remember.
Saturday we watched Taken.
Sunday we had the roast.
Other days we did other things.

I haven’t done this for ages and have kind of forgotten what to do.

I saw Frank Turner last night in a room of only about 200 people. Chris, Doug and I got right to the front and it was so so good. Imperial Leisure and Jim Lockey also played and were both their usual wonderful selves. It was definitely in the top 5 gigs I’ve ever been to. On that note, what are the top 5 gigs you have ever been to? I’ll give it some thought and get back to you next week. I stayed at Matt’s house and saw Kerry, Matt, Miranda and Cath which was lovely.

I have had my first exam of this year, it was all practical type stuff and I don’t think it went horribly. The results are out next Wednesday so fingers crossed.

I’ve started Psychiatry now and I am unsure how I feel about it so far. We have only really had introductory stuff so far so I’ll reserve judgement until I’ve experienced a bit more of it.

I just bought a fluorescent yellow t-shirt, I am planning on going running in the evenings in Taunton, we’ll see how well that goes. I am also going to do swimming I think.

Other than that my life has been pretty mundane, just working most of the time. I don’t know what else I can write about that you would have any interest in so I’ll leave you here. I hope you’re all well and I look forward to seeing you all at Christmas.

I'm so sick of listening to Dylan on youtube, scrolling down and seeing people get mad at Justin Beiber.

Seriously, if it carries on I might just start listening to him.

So Juliet reminded me yesterday I need to blog but I thought I'd take her day just to let her know how much I appreciate it. 

My life hasn't been very interesting of late, mostly it's just been incredibly stressful.  I don't want to waste your Friday with a moan so I'll just leave you with this:

Miss you.

Missed my last blog day

because I was STILL without internet, and rushing to hand in ANOTHER essay.
Today I am writing YET ANOTHER FUCKING ESSAY. Due in tomorrow.

So... My flat now has internet. Hence I am writing this wearing a huge dressing gown plus a nice big blanket.
And I now spend my essay breaks reading the wikipedia articles of various Game of Thrones actors.
I think I've gone wrong.

Obama is officially king.
Which is nice.

Miranda, Cath and Oonagh came up last weekend. As well as Owen's brother and two cousins, Pete and Gavin's respective sisters, plus Rosie, Josh and Grant.
It was a busy weekend.

It was also halloween.
I dressed like this:

I know, right? Check me out.
That's spray in black hair dye, a base coat of light-grey body paint, highlighted with white body paint, and shaded with a dark grey eyeshadow (that I am also wearing on my lips. yum.)

OH. And I've invited the fatman to New Years, I hope that ok.
If not we can just make him wait in the car.

I'm really excited to see you all again. Christmas seems so close!
(Although I probably won't make it back to Swindon until the 21st due to bastard exams.)

And in case anyone was wondering, the results came back and my cervix is A-OK!