Delicious dinner!

I cooked a rather tasty and very successful dinner last night. We had Cod in butter sauce with basmati rice and roasted mediterranean vegetables, mmmm, and nothing was left, so it must have been good.

We did have wine too, I just took the picture before that was poured.

Update…

Made a new page called “This is my work …”, and so far I’ve uploaded two articles to it. Both are projects done in my final year at City.

Also finally added the before pictures of the flat to that blog entry: here. Will upload a new entry in  few days with current up to date and clean pictures

Plus I made each entry on the home page a bit shorter, so you have to click the link to read more. Makes it look a little tidier I think.

That’s all for now!

Flat-warming … well it was hot!

Well the good news is that a mobile made it to me in one piece. And it was a black one, just like my first INQ phone, yays.

I’ve been going crazy with revision here though, taking breaks to go on the wii fit and not really eating too well … I blame the heat. Luckily it’s cooler today so I may actually get to eat more without feeling really icky.

New phone … kinda

Well I’m a year into an 18month mobile phone contract now and am getting my third INQ1 mobile … not to say that it’s the mobile that’s bad though.

Six months into the contract my mobile was stolen from inside KFC so I had to get a new one through the insurance I had with 3 mobile (we had troubles with the insurance back then as the bank had cancelled the direct debit without telling me, but Alex sorted that for me, but anyways that’s a whole different story).

Wiiiiiiii

Alex and I went halves on a Wii Fit and it’s so much fun! So far I have tried the yoga and some of the balance games (nothing as energetic as an actual workout though). I have also discovered that I have terrible balance … any game that involves it, such as skateboarding, I am useless at.

On the positive side, my BMI is ideal, yays!

Eeep

There was a stabbing not far from our flat last night! See >> Stabbing in Southend Road – Your Thurrock

Rather scary I think :S

POSTCODE LOTTERY OF THE DNA DATABASE

Dissertation for City University – written April 2010 (copyright TBCoutts)

The layout of my project (opens in PDF document)

MAIN FEATURE

Gone are the days of being innocent until guilty. With the National DNA Database growing each day we are all effectively being treated as guilty of something until proven innocent, as our DNA is being kept to match to suspects.

As of March 2009 there were 4.8 million individuals on the database, an 11 per cent rise from 2008. Not all of these profiles are from those convicted of a crime, with many coming from people later proven to be innocent or those who had volunteered a sample. But getting these innocent profiles removed from the database is not as easy as it would appear and it is even said to be a lottery dependent on where you live.

Domesticated!

I made successful carrot cake, it really is tasty! And semi-successful carrot cupcakes … the icing wasn’t as thick as it should have been and so after a whole night in the fridge they’re only just starting to set. Oooops.

Here they are:

University work and distractions

Since I last wrote I’ve been working hard on my dissertation … that thing that seems to suck all final year uni students into complete and utter despair! I finally did my interview with a forensic scientist, it wasn’t great, but it happened and I got some quotes, wooop.

My project is on the DNA database and how there seems to be a postcode lottery. Thing is I was hoping the Crime and Security Bill wouldn’t be passed while I was writing the article, because now it has (it was passed the day I handed in my draft) I have had to change around my piece a lot and I feel it’s not longer as strong ah well, not much I can do about that, especially not this close to final deadline. Just have to lay the piece out now and make it look all pretty.

Trip to Hautbois in Norfolk

What a fantastic weekend!!

I stayed at Patteson Lodge (which is at Hautbois [pronounced 'Hobbis'] House) near Norwich, Norfolk and it was a lovely weekend. It was the second senior secion training weekend for the Centenary Camp this August. As part of our training we got to have a tour around the BBC studios in Norwich, oooooo and I sat at the desk of the newsreader and looked o so professional doing it, I’ve come along way from my incident in TV class at Carleton.