Thursday 21 January 2010
Monday 18 January 2010
A few Anecdotes
As I have not posted much in a while I believe it is time that I added something to my blog.
On my trip back from Paddington Station (at the end of Christmas holiday) I thought that there would be no hitches on my journey back to halls and expected to be in after about 40minutes of arriving. Little was I to know what surprise awaited me at the tube station - after passing through the magnetic card machines (they beep your oyster card) I was greeted with the tube tunnnel that led directly back to my halls closed off to passengers. Rather annoyed at this I went up to the map and after a quick study determined that I only had one other choice (besides a 2hour trek); to take the Bakerloo line down to Piccadily and then hop on a Piccadilyline train to Gloucester Road. Now to those who have never been in London or taken the tube regularly enough to know its ins and outs this turned a relatively short commute into a rather drawn out one. (purple=way I had to go; black = fast way)
While I was on this gloriously efficient transport, I noticed 2 germans with stereotypical blond hair and slicked back hair with expensive looking jackets - I wondered at what they were doing dressed like that.
My second event happened yesterday in a friend of mines kitchen; there were 5 of us and we were going to tuck into some banana splits, which as I'm sure you'll agree sounds delicious (and believe me it was!). Before this though my friend Sarah was cooking some food for her lunch tomorrow and had placed it in a tupperware container - unfortunately she would never eat this meal as she unwittingly placed it upon the hob - the hob which was still red hot. I had not noticed any of this, in fact it was only when I turned my head in curiosity towards the chocolate which was being melted on the stove that I noticed this deformed looking tupperware which had melted and become a part of the hob. Needless to say I sounded the alarm and the molten tupperware was quickly removed, only for its contents to spill out of the hole in the bottom where it had melted through.
And that is how you make plastic-vegetable lunch.
Today I discovered that even people who consider themselves to have grown up are actually still children at heart - I discovered this in the bowels of the Natural History Museum in the dinosaur tourist shop where my two friends Josh and Matt picked up a toy T-rex model and a hand puppet T-rex and went about recreating a scene from the Cretaceous period (with audio)! I was also shocked to find out that the section containing the model of the blue whale was closed off for refurbishment and cursed the museum for ruining my viewing experience!!!
On a final note I have yet another NEW neighbour - a friendly chinese emo who has - you guessed it - had to move out due to her ceiling collapsing (big surprise) and who is kindly obeying the rule of 3 (there have never been more than 3 people living on this floor although the capacity is 4!)
On my trip back from Paddington Station (at the end of Christmas holiday) I thought that there would be no hitches on my journey back to halls and expected to be in after about 40minutes of arriving. Little was I to know what surprise awaited me at the tube station - after passing through the magnetic card machines (they beep your oyster card) I was greeted with the tube tunnnel that led directly back to my halls closed off to passengers. Rather annoyed at this I went up to the map and after a quick study determined that I only had one other choice (besides a 2hour trek); to take the Bakerloo line down to Piccadily and then hop on a Piccadilyline train to Gloucester Road. Now to those who have never been in London or taken the tube regularly enough to know its ins and outs this turned a relatively short commute into a rather drawn out one. (purple=way I had to go; black = fast way)
While I was on this gloriously efficient transport, I noticed 2 germans with stereotypical blond hair and slicked back hair with expensive looking jackets - I wondered at what they were doing dressed like that.My second event happened yesterday in a friend of mines kitchen; there were 5 of us and we were going to tuck into some banana splits, which as I'm sure you'll agree sounds delicious (and believe me it was!). Before this though my friend Sarah was cooking some food for her lunch tomorrow and had placed it in a tupperware container - unfortunately she would never eat this meal as she unwittingly placed it upon the hob - the hob which was still red hot. I had not noticed any of this, in fact it was only when I turned my head in curiosity towards the chocolate which was being melted on the stove that I noticed this deformed looking tupperware which had melted and become a part of the hob. Needless to say I sounded the alarm and the molten tupperware was quickly removed, only for its contents to spill out of the hole in the bottom where it had melted through.
And that is how you make plastic-vegetable lunch.
Today I discovered that even people who consider themselves to have grown up are actually still children at heart - I discovered this in the bowels of the Natural History Museum in the dinosaur tourist shop where my two friends Josh and Matt picked up a toy T-rex model and a hand puppet T-rex and went about recreating a scene from the Cretaceous period (with audio)! I was also shocked to find out that the section containing the model of the blue whale was closed off for refurbishment and cursed the museum for ruining my viewing experience!!!
On a final note I have yet another NEW neighbour - a friendly chinese emo who has - you guessed it - had to move out due to her ceiling collapsing (big surprise) and who is kindly obeying the rule of 3 (there have never been more than 3 people living on this floor although the capacity is 4!)
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