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[May. 22nd, 2008|09:45 am] |
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I've now finished my degree,as I had my last exam yesterday. It still hasn't sunk in yet that I don't have to study now. It's a strange feeling!
So much so that I'm going to go and continue to learn to drive that is!
Judith
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| A lovely way to spend a Saturday.... |
[May. 18th, 2008|11:27 am] |
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| | all fall down- lindisfarne | ] |
Tom and I decided quite recently that as we both like walking that it was time that we'd do something that would raise our game so to speak. So we decided that by October we'd try and walk the Hadrian's Wall Path all the way from Wallsend to Bowness on Solway. Yesterday we started it! We walked about 9 miles from Wallsend to Scotswood Bridge(which is just past the Metro Centre) and it was a fantastic day. That said, we were so tired when we got back that we went to sleep at 10.20 and didn't even to bother watching the Comedy Map of Britain(which has been a fixture for a couple of weekends).
Unfortunately as we didn't take our cameras I thought I'd use a couple of pictures I've found on a certain internet search engine to illustrate what we walked past. If you're not interested in anything related to Newcastle the cut is quite image heavy, so you make up your own minds.
In other news I went to the library on the way back from Sacriston today and decided to go folky for a week. So I've got the Alan Hull anthology, the best of Show of Hands(one of Tom's friends wants him to play a Show of Hands song at her wedding in August, I've not heard any of their material at all) and "Front Parlour Ballads" by Richard Thompson(who I do know and like).
Judith
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| Radio Concerts |
[Apr. 1st, 2008|09:54 pm] |
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| | everything is in its right place-radiohead | ] |
They might be pre recorded but tonight I've had the chance to listen to Radiohead live on Radio 2. I'd forgotten how good live concerts are to listen to.
Thom Yorke's warblings may put most people off but I do like the frenzied/minimalist/indescribable nature of Radiohead. Also some of the songs off In Rainbows are beautifully put together.
I wish I hadn't got rid of all my tapes now because I'd have some more live radio recorded gems to hand such as the Manics Nynex Gig from 1997(It's so spooky listening to all the fairly 'recent' mentions of Richey from Steve Lamacq on that tape), the Manics Coal Exchange Gig in 2002,the Blur singles tour from 1999, a Soulwax gig on my birthday in 2000 and Idlewild live in the Shetlands.
Viva la radio!
Judith
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| Greenery |
[Feb. 11th, 2008|10:08 am] |
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| | every planet we reach is dead-gorillaz | ] |
This weekend has been very good indeed. I was at the Walkers on Saturday evening and saw Argyle tread all over Leicester. Our away support was magnificent and outsung what felt like the entire city of Leicester.
That said, I do feel sorry for the suffering Foxes because as Tom was telling me on Saturday, he hasn't been to a match where they've won in four years. They do have some good players but they just don't seem to gel in the way that we did on Saturday. As much as I slagged off DJ Campbell and Matty Fryat I still think we felt threatened by them.
We were down in Leicester not just for that match but also for Tom's little sister Emily's 18th Birthday Party. Before the match we had a bit of a wander round and the weather was absolutely magnificent. It made me very much appreciate how green Leicester is as a city. Walking across Victoria Park down New Walk when the sun is shining completely destroys any opinions of how dull a city it is.
We also went in the New Walk Museum, which I love and there was an Ancient Greeks British Museum moving exhibition on. I was such a big kid and had to put a Trojan horse together from wooden pieces didn't I! Also spotted in the museum café were two editions of "Embrace.... all things Rutland" which I found very twee and funny.
The do itself was very good, and Tom did a speech that I know Emily was very very proud of. I know I was proud of him for doing it.
Yesterday we stopped off in Wetherby on the way back for a tea and scone, and the tea really hit the spot. It was such a lovely tea!
A good weekend to prepare me for what could be a stressful week,,,,, Group work is a dreaded word.
Judith
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| Hail,Wind and Snow |
[Jan. 31st, 2008|04:52 pm] |
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| | the band of gold-seth lakeman | ] |
Durham has been like a weather forecaster's dream today, we've had blue skies, gales, rain, sleet, a blizzard of snow and moments of calm!
In other news I finally did my presentation that I've been posting about over the past two days and all went well until I slipped up and said the SWP was still entrist. What I meant to say of course was it is still boring, which I said to my lecturer to which he laughed. He and the rest of the class seemed to enjoy my presentation of more contemporary events such as Militant and the Labour Party and the (as yet) unsubstantiated claims against Ken Livingstone.
Last night Tom and I went to a different pub quiz, we went to the Tap and Spile in Framwellgate Moor and we came second. There were only four teams, but it was a nice mixture of general knowledge and very different to the Elm Tree quiz. For those who know the fabled Elm Tree quiz, it wasn't as brain meltingly difficult. Also,there were seven different ales on so I was a very happy bunny. Tom would have been if he wasn't the designated driver(as he always is bless him). We'll definitely be going back to the Tap and Spile in the future.
Judith
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| Grotesque Chaos |
[Jan. 30th, 2008|08:41 am] |
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For those who want to see the speech I was mentioning in my last post.
Kinnock's 1985 Conference attacking Militanthttp://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_6960000/newsid_6967300/6967355.stm?bw=bb&mp=rm&asb=1&news=1
I sent a link to it to my Mum and she's just commented how when she watched it "tears were rolling down her face and it was a time when she felt things were more difficult but that things seemed more hopeful too".
Unfortunately you can't get a transcript online, so I can't quote from it in my presentation tomorrow. |
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| Politics again! |
[Jan. 29th, 2008|10:44 pm] |
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| | 1776-Hope of the States | ] |
I'm currently doing some research on Militant Tendency for a presentation and have just watched an old BBC News report on Neil Kinnock's speech to the Labour Party Conference in 1985. What a speech! They certainly don't do them like that anymore! I wasn't even born when that speech was made(but I wasn't far away as I was born in late October).
Judith
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| New things learnt today... |
[Jan. 29th, 2008|06:05 pm] |
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| | canvey island-british sea power | ] |
In my German politics seminar earlier we were discussing Die Linke("The Left Party") and how their colour is purple. Our lecturer found it so funny and asked what purple meant to us. I suggested Spanish Republicanism which was patted down with "well I suppose you've got the excuse of being in Spain for a year". The actual answer was Feminism, which I and my peers were startled by. We all had never heard of purple as being associated with Feminism. Is this a lack of subculture knowledge on our part or just indicative of how Feminism has now become tamed and is unimportant in today's society? (You decide!).
This was my purple association anyway:
You see loads of them on May 1st obviously.
Judith
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| Some hae meat and canna eat |
[Jan. 25th, 2008|08:30 am] |
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| | windowsill-arcade fire | ] |
Yes it's Burns Night tonight and therefore all those of a Scottish persuasion or those who like Haggis can rejoice.
I thought I could last night at my first ever Van Mildert formal, but I had an allergic reaction to their Cock a Leekie soup. First off it had prunes in it, which I found strange(but have recently found on a Scottish recipes website that it does have prunes in it but most people omit it). I had to leave the meal as a result, and my hero/star/fabulous Tom came and picked me up from Mildert and took me back to Hatfield to tuck me up.
To those who don't know I am allergic to nuts, and have had my allergy since birth and although I carry antihistamines and an epipen I've never had to use the latter. Normally if things have a 'trace of nuts' in them(like everything nowadays due to fear of being sued) I'm fine as they don't have nuts in. This soup was confounding as the reaction was so quick(so it couldn't have been from something I ate at lunchtime). So I've no idea what I ate to start me off, but as nuts are my primary enemy to my immune system I'm going to go with that.
Therefore, I'm making sure Tom and I have haggis either tonight or tomorrow night!! We'll be sharing a bottle of Old Tom that I got him for his birthday with it too, as I can't drink wine with haggis.(That could have been the problem last night, I was shocked that Mildert bar didn't sell bottled beer, the previous time they had the range of Black Sheep ales in there).
Anyway, I'm a lot better now so that's good!
Judith
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| Driving-the scariest thing in the world |
[Jan. 20th, 2008|05:54 pm] |
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| | books from boxes-maximo park | ] |
In comparison moving abroad and speaking a completely different language to your own native language is a piece of cake eh!!
Yes, today at the grand age of 22 I had my first ever driving lesson in Durham. For those who know the area or have learned up here, we went out to Meadowfield Industrial Estate just by Langley Moor did a bit of basic driving and then came back via the Honest Lawyer at Croxdale and turned right by the Cock o the North roundabout. (I almost stopped on this). Then I got the joy of actually driving into Durham, up onto the Bailey and parking outside Hatfield. It was an amazing experience I can tell you but my adrenaline is still pumping!
As for tonight's plans, I've got to finish "On Nationality" by David Miller then I'm off out with Tom to the Travelling Man at Witton Gilbert for their Sunday night quiz.
Judith
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