Sorry I’ve not been too active lately. I’ve been revising like mad! Not to mention having a thousand tests run on me to find out why I’ve been feeling so ill. Least now that I’m not a teenager my mum can’t blame it on hormones!

I have done some work on the site albeit in the backend - I’ve moved all my post images to flickr. I hate relying on 3rd party sites but it makes sense. I’ve had so many problems with hosts in the past I want to be ready to move servers within minutes. I’m not saying I’ve had any problems with my current host though! I’m just paranoid. My wp-content folder is getting pretty fat!

Other than revision I’ve not really been up to much. My parents have decided their going to grow some veggies. We went to notcutts yesterday and bought some veggies. Potatoes, beans, peas etc. We also bought some strawberries - with an exciting strawberry pot.

Grow bag with various veggies

Our exciting strawberry pot. I hope their gooduns!

Runner beans. Their my favourite plants. Pretty flowers and even pretty leaves!

There’s some more artyfarty photos at my main flickr account. I didn’t actually do much too them but still - it makes a change to have something to post :)

*lesigh* I suppose I should get back to the revision. I’m struggling to understand the hough transform so if anyone here is an image processing genius - help?!

My dad came home for lunch yesterday, he came upstairs and told me there was a dead cat on the road outside our neighbours house. Naturally I was quite upset by this, all I could think was what can we tell the owners! (My worst fear is something happening to my cats, and my parents lol)

My dad put on his marigolds and got a piece of paper to write down any information on the collar. He went outside - as he did so I was watching from the front door, then I thought, my dad doesn’t have a very good track record at being able to tell if somethings dead or not.

He came into my room when I was about 14/15 and told me that my hamster, Domino was dead. I was very upset at this news. I’m not very good with dead things but I wanted to see him before we buried him in our little graveyard by the shed - all the dead bird and mice have their own tombstones - bricks left over from our house. I went into the kitchen and there he was, a little black cuddly thing in the sawdust of his cage - I looked a little closer, he was still breathing! The house had been so cold he’d started hibernating!

After I mentioned his lack of ability to tell if something is dead or not, my dad looked around the hedge and sure enough - no dead cat! Ten minutes later he went back outside to check! Just to see if the ‘dead’ cat hadn’t gotten up and walked away!

I love Ikea, I grew up with it. Their so sensible and I love storage lol. My mum and I went on a trip on Monday to buy a few things to tidy up my room. My room isn’t exactly sensible. Before the trip my dressing table was two boxes one on top of the other. I did my make up in the bathroom.

There’s nothing in my room, other than a well hidden pine bedside table that I haven’t assembled myself or made from scratch.

The main point of the trip was to organise my wardrobe. I hate having things in sight so I put everything in my wardrobe. Before we spent far too much money I had boxes on top of each other in the cupboard. It wasn’t practical. Now however my wardrobe is uber organised!
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As I mentioned previously I came home from uni on Sunday. I actually really impressed myself on my journey. Firstly let it be known that I hate driving. Driving in the snow on the way home was not as terrifying as I expected it to be. It was scary but I didn’t seem to mind it, unusually!

I also had ‘issues’ with my sat nav. It wouldn’t calculate a route, anywhere, it was constantly coming up with errors and crashing. I suppose that’s to be expected when its running on windows mobile. I know the route home anyway but I was slightly worried as I’m planning a trip to South Hampton soon. I’ve had problems with it before too. If the cable isn’t in exactly the right position, and I mean by the millimeter it wont recognise the PDA and doesn’t work.

I got home and unpacked all my stuff. In the process I pulled another muscle in my chest. (For those that don’t remember/know the story) This time its on the breastbone, still on the right side just above my bewb. Its so annoying, why me! If it gets any worse I’m going to have to start taking those painkillers again.

Anyway, I digress, I told my parents about my crappy sat nav, which has served me pretty well tbh. Twenty minutes later my dad and I are in the car heading for Halfords! My dad does go a little overboard, I was thinking ooh lets get the cute little one, but because my dad will be using this when we go to Florida in July he got the biggest, fattest, most expensive one there! TomTom Go 520.

It does everything. You can plug your ipod into it, it has 5 hour battery life (the rest had 2) but the best features of all, not only does it tell you when there’s speed cameras coming up. It calculates your speed using its satellite positioning and tells you when your going too fast. It also tells you the speed limit on the road your on. My mum and I found this particularly useful when we went to ikea yesterday.

I finished uni on Friday, two weeks after Easter weekend. I was planning on leaving on the Friday but a mate of mine managed to get hold of a power mac g4. He came round so we could be childish and obsess over it!

It has 128mb RAM, 400Mhz processor and a 4.5gig hard drive. For comparison purposes my 4 year old Dell pc originally had 512mb ram, 3.06Ghz processor and 1 80gig hard drive. It now has another 250gig harddrive and 2gig of ram.

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