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Archive for October, 2009

‘Cup of Tea’ Cake

Yes, yes Britain. You did read that title correctly. You can all cheer and rejoice; there IS a cake called the ‘Cup of Tea’ cake and it has got REAL TEA in it and it is MARVELLOUS.
And you can have the recipe, courtesy of my parents’ next door neighbour and her mother, Sue and Barbara.
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Sheffield Hallam University, where I studied and where I am now doing Relay (yay!), has around 30,000 students, including 3000 International students. It’s a ‘new’ university with two campuses, with courses ranging from Nursing to Business Studies, to Teaching, to Sports Science, to Languages, Metalwork and Jewellery, Occupational Therapy, Graphic Design and so on (and [...]

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The latest…

My Grandad died really early on Monday morning after having a stroke on Sunday. We spent all night in the hospital and it wasn’t a very nice experience. I was going to write about it on here but now I’ve decided I don’t want to. I’ll keep my thoughts to myself. All I can say [...]

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Coventry

One of my Relay friends recently posted a link to a BBC programme about the bombing of Coventry during WWII.
Boring, you may think. I did too at first to be honest. How interesting can a programme about a city I’ve never even been to or know anything about be? It’s near Birmingham for heaven’s sake. [...]

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Coffee Shops Are The Bee’s Knees

Enough said in the title really. I LOVE coffee shops. I LOVE café culture. It’s one of the things I loved most about Paris, where you seem to overhear someone ask ‘tu veux un petit café?’ every 100 yards or so.
My current coffee shop of choice is Coffee Revolution on Ecclesall Road. It’s not even [...]

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