Luggage Drama

I've got two holidays lined up this summer, one where I get hold luggage (yay BA!) and one where I don't (boooo Easy Jet). And I needed a little hand luggage suitcase, I looked all over and everything was just a bit too expensive until I discovered the luggage section of Roys of Bowthorpe. 

Check out this little beauty, and for £19.99 too, score! Cheap and cheerful and purple!

I Scream, You Scream, Let's Make Ice Cream!

What's for dessert you ask? Why, home made ice cream of course, the boyfriend and I spotted Angel Delight ice cream mix and decided to try it out. 

You put 150ml of milk in a bowl and add in the mix

Whisk it for five minutes 

Stir in a little something extra (next trial flavour is biscuit pieces!)

Freeze for four hours

Tastyyyyyyyyy

And no ice cream maker required!

Sunday Gardening

I decided today was the day, the day to sort my garden out. First the raised bed, I picked a really wonky uneven spot in the corner. 

Yes I could have flattened the ground and dug up the grass but this seemed like a lot of effort so instead I just covered the ground in newspaper. 

Got a bit of compost...

Petted my gardening assistant...

Et voila! 

Next stop the border, it looked lovely last year but since then the lawn just kept growing into it and I'm far too lazy to keep digging it up

So I dug it up, added in some edging then lots of compost... it's a bit wonky but it was hot and that's as good as it's going to get people

Last item of business, plant some cat grass courtesy of my mother for my gardening assistant, sorted!

Sea Palling

The boyfriend, some friends and I enjoyed lovely Sea Palling on Sunday, it was a scorcher and everyone got sunburnt apart from me - ha ha ha, the boyfriend's skin is peeling as I type.

I enjoyed a little paddle and I sunned myself, also I found the sand is a very useful bottle holder.

In other news I have booked another holiday after Rome to Ibiza with my family (not to the party bit, to the relaxing bit) so that will hopefully be fun, I'm looking forward to it. Life of a student, eh?

OSCEs

Well my chums, what have I been up to so far this week... I have been revising and taking my two OSCE exams at uni for the end of year. I had to write on the flip chart during the skills lab for Dr ABCDE so my notes were... Ok I just stole the flip chart page. I did write it though! So I revised from the giant poster and I still forgot bits of it in the exam. Oh well, feeling a bit frazzled now.

I got a new raised bed that the boyfriend put together for me, good of him. Now I need to buy some compost to go in it, find a good place for it and get planting stuff. 

And I made a discovery - when you run out of soy sauce, use two teaspoons of marmite, now you know

My Week & The Quest For My Nanny's Cake

As you may know I have been on the quest for a replica to my lovely Nanny's chocolate cake, the very best chocolate cake I have ever had. So I tried a new recipe yesterday. 

Tasty but too much sugar.

I got a gift card from my Mum in the post which was a nice surprise. I also had a big exam for drug calculations, I don't have the marks back yet but I think it went pretty good. Only a month left on placement and two more exams then it's summer holidays time! Yay!

Placement Update

So I've reached halfway house at my current placement and I've done so many hours there that for the rest of my placement I only need to go in for two long day shifts a week, so it will be quite nice to get a day off that I didn't have before. On placement your hours are meant to average out to 30 a week and I've been doing 3 long days which at my placement is 39 hours so I'm in credit.

I have a drug calculation exam coming up for next week for which we use a program called safe medicate and then after that I have my OSCEs which this year are about administering medication (tablet form) and DR ABCDE possibly including manual blood pressure but I feel fairly confident about these because we've been practising them a lot before classes broke up for placement... fingers crossed!

Mail Order

I ordered a new duvet set online which came the other day, it was much cheaper than it would have been in the shops so that was good. 

I also ordered a free gardening kit from Anglian Water, it has water saving goodies in and herbs. 

Now if only my book would come from Amazon!

Tea With Friends

I met one of my very dear friends for M&S tea today after a long trip to the dentist (chore), and it was just lovely to catch up and munch and drink my Earl Grey. 

Also I deserved a sugary teeth rotting treat to have later on for going to the dentist so I got the boyfriend and I some Nerds. I haven't seen them in forever. 

Good times :)

You Know You're A Nursing Student When...

Ads in the RCN magazine get all scientific, this one made me laugh, I especially enjoyed the graphs. All adverts should have graphs I think from now on. 

You also know you're a nursing student when you grope yourself constantly for your upside down watch before realising it's your day off and you're not wearing your upside down watch about ten times a day, making you look like a lunatic more of a lunatic.

In other news I made peach and raspberry jelly, yummerz.