baking Tag

You are probably sick and tired of hearing me complain about how busy I am at uni. Tough tatties. It's my final year and I will cry if I want to. It will all be over in a matter of months don't worry. I will be handing in my last every piece of coursework on Friday. Then all I have to deal with is the small matter of my dissertation followed by exams! PAH! My oh my hasn't this week just flown by! This week I realised the only cure to a bad day is carbs. Preferably fried. Preferably cheesey. Seriously. As soon as you sink your teeth into the greasy goodness of your carb of choice, all your worries will melt away. Who cares if it is bad for you. Your tastebuds sure don't. I had a hard day at placement. Most people assume Speech and Language therapy is all about stutters/stammers. I will have you know that that is just a teeny weeny specialist area of the profession. My placement is at a Neurological Rehab Centre, and I work with a range of patients from those with Traumatic Brain Injuries to Stroke patients to those with degenerative diseases such as MS and MND. It's tough but really very interesting.

GUYS I had the day off uni and I wasn't even expecting it! GUYS, I entered Lurpak's #bakeclub competition. The prize is Joseph Joseph kitchen stuff. GUYS, I LOVE Joseph Joseph stuff. You may have guessed that I spent my day off baking. It was a glorious day. The rain poured outside, I poured chocolate inside. My housemate, Rhona, had the day off too so she played the roll of photography assistant. Rhona and I became friends at uni as we were doing the same course. We bonded over food. Obviously. We spent most of our second year going out for breakfasts around London. It was the best. In fact, I am waiting for Rhona to get home from the gym now, hoping she will cave and decide to go to Pizza Express with me for dinner. I have a voucher and everything.

Christmas part 2!

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Upon beginning to write this post, I  discovered that I only had pictures of the tart after it had been made, sorry! Also, I am pretty tired, uni has been go go go since we started back a couple of weeks ago so that means the work has been piling up. As a result of spending hours starting at my computer screen reading research papers, I am gonna keep this post short and sweet. Quite like the pastry used for this tart!