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End of Term
Posted Dec 9, 2004
Phew, all five deadlines that were due in this week complete. 
All books needed over the holidays borrowed. Dissertation's a bit of a mess but 2 out of 3's not bad. Silly ground beetles. Both presentations seemed to go fine, despite the smudging ink on OHPs and the evacuation of the building due to a spillage of some toxic chemical. Been to Wales twice and also finally went up Scarfell Pike. I've also been all over the Peaks and round Sherwood forrest dressed in a rather colourful costume 
. Written 4 lab reports. Had quite a few visits from one PSG 
. Been to several of my favourite pubs from the Vic round the corner to the Cat & Fiddle in the Peaks. 
Been to several house parties 
, one with fireworks . Have been helping at Brownies every week, especially after the hall was burnt down. 
I've gone to many meals out, trips to the cinema and a cruise along the Trent. I've made new friends and kept others. I've continued baking 
and have invented a few of my own. I haven't missed a single lecture and have been borrowing books like never before 
. I've been looking for jobs, been summoned for jury service and filling forms to get a defferal. I've eaten a lot of jaffa cakes. 
It's been a busy term.
It finishes tomorrow though. Then I'm off up north to stay with PSG and meet his family for the first time. Week after that he gets to meet mine, which includes a pair of 11 year olds, though I've only seen them for 4 days since their birthday back in August. Right now though I need a lot of sleep and a lot of jaffa cakes 
.
Anyone got some 
?
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Annual Sherwood Forest Walk 2004
Posted Nov 25, 2004
Thought I'd share a picture from last Sunday's walk in Sherwood Forest
http://www.su.nott.ac.uk/~ramsoc/images/photos/sherwood04/1.jpg
That's me on the right
Off to the Brecon Beacons tomorrow, I won't be dressed up for that
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Busy..
Posted Oct 4, 2004
Just realised I've not been on hootoo for over a week . Am very busy at the moment, with Brownies, Ramsoc, coursework, lectures, dissertation, catching up with friends and visits from PSG 
. I'd like to catch up, chat and finish the guide entries I've been working on but on the other hand I really went online to do some more research for a report on the management of chalk grasslands. 
I'd like to say I'd catch up later but in reality I'm in my final year at university and I'm just going to end up with less time rather than more. I've already got three coursework deadlines glaring at me and I only started lectures a week ago. 
I'll try catch up when I've got some time, sorry for all the messages I've not replied to
and
Unc
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On this week's caption competition..
Posted Jul 29, 2004
In case you hadn't noticed, I'm in this week's caption competion 
at A2872875
That's me on the left, Researcher PSG in the middle and Opti on the right. Given the responses so far I'm not sure what Opti's going to say when she gets back from her holiday
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The Summer Party 2004 - Unc's account
Posted Jul 11, 2004
Well, yesterday was my fifth h2g2 meet, third London meet and second Summer Party . It was brilliant, despite the rain. Once I start chatting, getting me to stop can be very hard, and I started chatting to Opti, Andy, PSG, MaW and Liz...
We had our picnic, talked to quite a few other people, especially Z Phantom, Mystic Mel, Whoami? and Dr Mo and then went to have a look at the new fountain thing. It looked dull from a distance, but it was really clever up close . There were some 
kiddies swimming in the thing, despite it being cold and wet 
.
By the time we got back to the bandstand, the others had gone. We found them a little while later in a pub, and then we went on to another pub for 
and more chat. Liz then had to leave, and we moved on to the Penderals Oak.
The place was empty this year. Quite a lot of people had signed up for the meet but not all that many turned up, and several had been forced to drop out at the last minute. Of all the italics and former italics, I only saw Mina. Meetbadger was there though, handcuffed to 2legs for quite a lot of the time
Unlike previous times the music was turned down low, and it was actually possible to talk to people without shouting . Along with the space, it did mean I got to talk to quite a few of the people there, and Bel came over to chat to Opti and me. Then it was time for the quiz.
My team (team ? as we were called as we'd written the teamname in the wrong place ) consisted of Opti, Andy, PSG, Mystic Mel, Z Phantom, MaW, Dr Mo and myself (obviously). We were absoloutly useless . We gave up after a while, and tried to be creative rather than accurate. I was slightly dissapointed when my 'Badger of Arabia' answer was actually very close to being correct, apart from the whole badger thing... Needless to say, we came last, with an impressive score of 13/42. However, there are no more h2g2 t-shirts 
, so we weren't really trying. There were mousemats for the winners, but Master B gave everyone else one who wanted one, which made those on the team who didn't already have one happy.
The meet had a few other oddities, such as the two headed teddy on a shelf in the pub . Mystic Mel's pierced eared 
, as a replacement for the lost forever meetsheep 
, provided us with quite a bit of entertainment as we took photos of it supposingly eating and drinking...
... well, it kept us amused anyway .
Due to the lack of people, we were forced out of the hired basement early. This turned out not to be too much of a problem as there was more upstairs . MaW, Mystic Mel and Z Phantom had left by that point, so Opti, Andy, PSG and I continued on chatting. Then Bel had to go, soon followed by Opti and Andy, so PSG and I ended up seperated from everyone else. We continued chatting but it was getting late, so PSG took me back to Euston, and then I got a coach home.
And that was the 2004 Summer Party
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