Homemade Peanut Butter Cups – Especially for Jennifer!

Jennifer is my cousin. She was born that way, she couldn’t help it, poor girl. We spent a lot of time together growing up, whether we liked it or not, for my mother’s family are all quite close. Quite a lot of our time was spent running like mad eejits through homemade obstacle courses- when … Continue reading

Best Sounding Medical Terms/Jargon etc

Just when you thought you had heard it all.. Part 2 of the best sounding medical terms/jargon comes your way. Well I never! Julie supplied a few of these, a muse she is. Ependymoma Sounds like: Something you should be saying in a southern country accent (Well that’s just an ependyyyyyyymoma of a problem there … Continue reading

Raindrops on Roses…

And whiskers on kittens? Perhaps. But here are a few of my favourite things 🙂 Well given that I really have to stop being super lazy and write posts, and due to the fact that there was thunder here today, I’m popping in a new topic. Things I love. You know, the things that make … Continue reading

Culinary adventure of sorts…

Well there I was, settled in front of my computer glancing out at the trees being bent over backwards by the wind, happy in the knowledge that I could have a lazy day. And then it all changed. For in passing, farmer Richie sauntered in and casually came out with ‘you know we have gooseberry … Continue reading

A morning in the life

I should be studying right now. Let me fill you in: I am on the train. It is reasonably early. It feels much earlier due to the significant lack of sleep on my part. Nevertheless, I got on the train happily and took out my mound of notes, ready to settle into some productive learnin’ … Continue reading

Corgan’s day out

It was windy out. It was cold. It looked like rain. There was only one thing for it, we were going to the beach. What else would you be doing in cold, wet and windy weather. So after inducing a healthy level of excitement in Corgan, we opened the boot and in he jumped. And … Continue reading

Italia Part 1 – The beginnings

So seeing as I am a poor student and thus never do anything but sleep, eat, watch comedy shows and look at the occasional book or twelve, I have decided, in the interest of you, my readers, to rewind back to 2007 and write a few bits and pieces about my favourite ever summer adventure … Continue reading

The internet hates me right now

As it was so aptly put by Mary. I know why… It’s still mad at me because I ignored it yesterday during lectures… Even though I apologised. I spent hours with it all evening, but the damage was done. And now its shouting at me with popups, refusing to let me listen to iRadio via … Continue reading

Tuesday Class Adventure

Ok first things first. You cannot do medicine if you are squeamish. You just can’t. Or else you get over it fairly bloody fast. And I am not squeamish at all. However, Tropical medicine is our new module. And I’m not going to go into detail here or anyone that is actually following this will … Continue reading