Friday 24 July 2015

Obsessions...

Some of my current obsessions


Milka:

This is probably one of my favourite chocolate bars; especially Happy Cow and it's recently been on offer at Morrisons half price a bar. I only let myself have it when it is on offer or I'd be the size of a house! I'm currently on my last bar *sobsob* and when thats finished I shall have to wait until it goes back on offer! 




Peppermint Tea:

I used to only drink this after dinner to help digestion, but I've recently started drinking it through out the day as well now and am really enjoying it. I often fall asleep randomly throughout the day and it is very sad to fall asleep and then wake up to a cold cup of tea. But with peppermint tea it tastes nice cold as well as hot! YAY! 






Drops Baby Merino:

This is possibly one of my favourite yarns ever. It's a four-ply fingering weight yarn, 100% merino wool but its extremely soft and knits up beautifully. I'm currently knitting a lacy cardigan in a turquoise-y blue and it's so nice to knit with and to wear. I'm very excited about finishing this and wearing it- I just hope I finish it while it's still warm enough to wear! I get my drops yarns from Wool Warehouse and they often have sales on drops yarns throughout the year, so the already reasonably priced drops yarns become even more reasonable! Wool Warehouse can be found here.  


Criminal Minds:

A friend of mine from Elevate recently recommended me this programme and as it's on netflix I decided to give it a go... I'm now on season 4 after about two weeks! It's a really amazing show, and fascinating to see the profilers, though I'm sure that normal FBI profilers do not get as involved in the crimes as this team does! My favourite characters are definitely Dr Spencer Reid and Penelope Garcia. I would highly recommend this show to anyone who enjoys crime tv shows :) 

Friday 17 July 2015

Trip to Cromer

A few weeks ago I went along on an Elevate trip to Cromer Pier and the Henry Bloggs Musuem. It was a lovely day to be at the seaside- very nice especially as the day before and the day after it rained.










Cromer is a seaside town on the North Norfolk coast, famous for having the last pier show in the UKand it's crabs, Cromer Crabs are supposed to be some of the best in the country! When I was younger my cousins, my sister and I went crabbing at Cromer, though I can't remember how many we caught but we got a few- and then put them back when we were done! It's also the 2015 Pier of the Year.



After we had a little stroll around the pier and people had ice creams we went to the Henry Blogg Museum, a teeny tiny walk from the Pier. The Museum is named after Henry Blogg, who was a local Norfolk man who became a national hero and was the RNLI's most decorated lifeboatman and served on Cromer's lifeboats for 53 years. During this time, he helped to save 873 lives. For more information about Henry Blogg, click here  and for information about the Henry Blogg Museum, click here :)







Thursday 9 July 2015

Exam results....

Things haven't been so great these last few weeks- emotionally and physically and today I had yet another blow, which is not improving things for me at all.

Today I got my exam results for what I hoped would be my last module with the Open University towards my History degree. I did A327- Europe 1914-1989. This was a pretty intense course, with A LOT of reading and so much political and economic history (I should have known really... I'm not all that clever really...) and not enough of the history of that period that I was really interested in. There was a lot that I didn't know, especially the Russian history and I did come very interested in the last Tsars- I think most people have heard of the mysteries of Anastasia and all the people claiming to the best lost princess of Russia after the Tsar and his family were massacred by the Russian people.

I thought I had done reasonably well in the exam when I had finished it, and I made myself so, so unwell with all the revision and the exam itself. I think for the next three weeks after the exam I was dying a little- it was kinda scary. So I'm really disappointed with how badly I did in the exam and because of the way that the OU marks the modules my bad exam mark has dragged down the mark for the entire module down to Pass Grade 4. I really hope that this doesn't drag down my classification for my entire degree, I was working on a level to receive a 2:2 with al my health problems I've had throughout this course but I really don't want a third class degree! If it does then I shall do another module and hopefully do

Also I have recently started my next course to keep my brain active and to feel like I have done something productive with my time- a level 4 diploma in Forensic Psychology. Am currently in the midst of my first assignment- which was a very short research study into the Public Perceptions of Crime. I had to get 25 people to do my little study- boy was that hard to do! Now I just have to answer a few questions about research methods and then a short discussion on problems with my study and I can e-mail it off to my tutor. I hope to get this done by the end of the week.

I've been up to some craftyness recently; finished the Port Neuf cardigan and shall take a photo and do a short write-up when I can find the energy. Also dug out my cross-stitch I patterned with a program I bought off the Crafty TV shopping channel! It's of Lily and Baby Harry from HP, a picture I found on deviant art, put into the program and created a little kit. It's coming along now, but it's going to take a long time to finish as it's very detailed and intricate but hopefully it'll look good when it's done.