Cluck!

Easter break, at last (well, it's been going on for a couple of days already, but it'll be for two whole weeks)! Not much to report. I found some marzipan eggs, which is nice, and I also got this mysterious packet of provisions in the mail. Aside from small (delicious!) chocolate eggs, it contained a neat decoration as well:

A house simply isn't complete without yellow bunnies.

 

I bet you've all missed the foodblogging, so here's a sight for sore eyes and hungry tummies, a mirage that isn't often seen in this house.

Steak:

With garlic butter and everything!

We'll be heading to Brighton for a couple of days on Tuesday, it'll be nice to see something else than old Canterbury for a change. Have a lovely Easter y'all, and remember to eat a lot of eggs. Chocolate and otherwise.

One of those Mornings.

 You could say that the British weather is sufficiently confused. Yesterday we had a sunny spell with temperatures around 15 C, but this morning, it looks like this:

 

Winter Wonderland!

It won't affect me that much personally, especially as it's saturday, but the same happened last week (or was it the week before?) and poor England was once again thrown into chaos and anarchy.

 Last thursday my other headphone finally broke down (they've been running at half capacity for a month or two), so I had to get new ones. As I went downtown I noticed a big ruckus at the Cathedral gate. Turns out that it was the crowning of the new Archbishop of Canterbury, so naturally the cream of Britain was visiting our humble city. That means spectators and protesters, which was what the ruckus was all about.

Anyway, the main point here is that I found the best deal on headphones in my entire life: 

11 pence.

I couldn't believe it, and the cashier was surprised too. It was a discontinued model they wanted to get rid of in order to start selling something new, I guess. They are this cool sci-fi model with arches around the ear. I usually buy those that work like earplugs and shut out all sound, but for £9.89 worth of savings I'm willing to try anything.

Wok Warrior (and taxidermy)

Above it was happens when an idea festers in my head for some time, and I get inspiration to draw late at night. . . Anyway, better not mess with her. She's got detergent in those balloons. Really bad for your eyes.

Last week I had a taxidermy course at uni. It was really interesting, as I've never had a chance to do it before. This was the result:

This mouse had a hard time.

I guess it's not bad for a first taxidermy, but it does look a bit miserable and pathetic. Its name is Humphrey, by the way.

Oh, we also had a chap over to fix our boiler. Apparently what was going on actually was some kind of connection error between the thermostat and the receiver on the boiler, so now we got both parts switched out, and its been working like a dream since then. The new thermostat is so cool, it shows temperatures with an accuracy of half a degree, and there's a holiday setting. So, if we, say, leave for one week, we can program the thermostat to keep the house cold while we're away, and start heating just before we get back. So no coming back to a freezing house anymore! Yay!

Köln änd bäck

There's people nagging me about putting up pictures from Germany here. I've just been busy doing very important things such as eating all the german chocolate I brought with me from there.

All right, here's what germany looks like:

 Dom. The cathedral in cologne.

Very detailed building.

  HAL was reinstated outside the cathedral.

 Nightly Rheine.

 Düsseldorf day was super-sunny. It felt like summer.

Germans seem to like towers like that. There was one in

Cologne as well.

 

 Nerdy graffiti in Cologne. It was close to the uni.

 In Bonn the landscape started to change to a hillier sort.

Last day in Cologne we visited S.t Ursula's Church.

The Golden chamber there was decorated with bones

of martyrs from a legend.

The trip was nice, and just the right length. I don't think that I could have taken many more days, as I started to get sufficiently tired of exhibitions and walking at this point.

It's good to be back.

British Museum Exhibit

 

Got some good news yesterday. The sculpture tutor told me that all medals from our university participating in the competition got sent back for not being good enough for exhibiting, except mine!

So, here's some pictures of it:

It's basicaly about different eras in British history -Romans (column), Vikings (dragonboat and runic snake), Saxons (thatched hut), Normans (window) and the imperial age (exiting sailing ship (right side of lower picture).

This means that this medal will be exhibited in the British Museum (I don't know when yet) which is pretty cool!