HOP BBQ

20thish of May 2010

so the HOP (human osteology and palaeopathology) kids had a barbecue on the amphitheatre-that-is-really-a-theatre, and a few of us crashed it - as we brought food, no one really cared :) it was nice to just kick back and relax for a bit. laura w thought that it was cute how happy we all were about how 'hot' it was. bradford ain't texas ;)

after the HOP barbecue came the craftiness barbecue (so much food!) at whichi finally finished the socks i was making for laura c. i have to say, knitting with this yarn is a little hard on the brain :)

photos: helen hop's awesome skull cake; hop kids frolicking in the sun (with the odd geophysicist); rowena crocheting a tiny waistcoat; laura c's psychadelic socks

Little Monsters

16th of May 2010

with everyone beginning to drift away (coursewise) i decided to spend this weekend playing with fimo and creating a bunch of little monsters for them to take away with them. believe me i had a good time making them, and i hope they're well received - we had a lot of fun coming up with ideas in the pub :D

Good Times

14th May 2010

so this week was the Bradford University (Archaeology) Masters end of an era party, which involved a great deal of looking for dresses and suits (yes, archaeologists NOT coated in mud, shock horror) and alcohol (as you can tell). the year isn't over just yet - there's still those pesky dissertations to get through - but so far everyone has been brilliant and i'm going to miss each and every one of them.

highlights of the evening included seeing puppy again, anthea asking to stroke puppy's sporran, erin being ninja at avoiding photos, the boys cancaning to its raining men, the almighty cathy winning the 'best bum' award and everyone having a good boogie :)

Photos are of: my course - becci, peter, laura, charlotte, me and rowena; me and miss jamie; me, bones burton and miss jamie

Presentation

(18-4-10)

Arch Sci did our presentations this week, scary prospect, but it went pretty well all things considered. I was a bit freaked out 'cause Niall was at a conference until thursday, first time he's been away since the murder, but I had a sort of argument with my own head and I appear to be back to normal (fingers crossed). Everyone did really well - Rowena, Laura W, Rebecca, Justine and Peter knocked the lecturer's socks off - Carl H remonstrated my lack of live sheep during the presentation though, I was amused to consider how I'd get one to the third floor of an old mill building.

We went to the pub after the presentations (in my case for the first time in ages) and ate chocolate cereal cakes :) the jukebox was on way too loud again so I got a nasty headache, actually made it to crafty too, sat and knitted more of that green jumper I'm working on. We had a new crafter this week, Sarwat, who does fabulous things with ribbonwork and embroidery :) Spent a few days working my way through the back catalogue of PHD comics (Piled Higher and Deeper, which I am now mildly obsessed with. This one was particularly relevant this week : http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=493

Niall had a good time at the conference and made it back just in time to visit John and Amanda for a BBQ - I of course was left at home to finish yet another report with our new, obnoxious, bike revving, screeching, rude neighbours. Joy of joys *sigh*; the stress of it all made me dig out my glasses, see pictures. Foyle's War started again tonight, i was nerdily excited of course :)