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Athena
Just like normal mulled wine, you heat cheap red wine in a pan with oranges and lemons and your spices of choice - cinnamon and cloves in this case. Put the pan of hot wine on something heat proof in the middle of the table/room - everyone will want to watch this.
Set the pan drainer on the side of the pot and pile sugar cubes on it - you'll want to cover the drainer if you can, possibly with more than one layer. Then soak the cubes in rum and set fire to them! Add more rum to keep it all going until the sugar has melted through.
It's great fun
Set the pan drainer on the side of the pot and pile sugar cubes on it - you'll want to cover the drainer if you can, possibly with more than one layer. Then soak the cubes in rum and set fire to them! Add more rum to keep it all going until the sugar has melted through.
It's great fun
One of the fellows at Corpus tried to do this after graduation dinner last year - we were all standing on New Court and there was this set up in the middle of New Court (on the grass!!!
). Unfortunately it didn't work out well (apparently the rum wasn't alcoholic enough so there wasn't enough fire and the sugar refused to melt so they ended up pouring it into the wine after lots of repeated tries), but it was fun seeing people trying to pour rum over the flames to try to get the sugar to melt through!munro90
Sadly she's on sabbatical till easter term so its not easy to get in touch with her 
Our temporary DoS hasn't had a lot to do with medicine in the past so he doesn't always know whats happening much in advance. I know a few people who have done non scientific part IIs (one guy last year did Japanese from scratch!) but as you say you have to fulfill graduation requirements- after a little research I'm still fairly confused. As it seems you only need 1a and 1b to complete MVST but the overall regualtions suggest you would need some other honours exam but isn't clear on what type that must be 
I guess I'll find out come Easter and really shouldn't worry about it 
Our temporary DoS hasn't had a lot to do with medicine in the past so he doesn't always know whats happening much in advance. I know a few people who have done non scientific part IIs (one guy last year did Japanese from scratch!) but as you say you have to fulfill graduation requirements- after a little research I'm still fairly confused. As it seems you only need 1a and 1b to complete MVST but the overall regualtions suggest you would need some other honours exam but isn't clear on what type that must be I guess I'll find out come Easter and really shouldn't worry about it If I don't remember wrongly you have until early Easter to choose a Part II, so there's still plenty of time - although that being said I remember the guy who did Japanese had had his third year sorted out by mid-Lent. (But then again I also know someone else in my year who initially chose and was allocated one of the Bio NatSci Part IIs, then switched to a non-science around July...)
It could be lupus
Yeah it looks good that you have the PhD before you become a doctor. Thats the main arguement I can see for doing it during your course. It was people I worked for doing medical research who actually said to do it later, so that I would do something much closer related to my chosen speciality than something that may not be close to my chosen speciality in the future
I do agree about the chosen speciality thing - it's difficult to know what speciality you want to go into at that point in time. Though it seems that a lot of people I've talked to think doing an MB/PhD (or similar) instead of a PhD later is good, and a lot of other people have the opposite opinion! :P (AND there's also people who do a PhD first, then do medicine...)
Athena
Just like normal mulled wine, you heat cheap red wine in a pan with oranges and lemons and your spices of choice - cinnamon and cloves in this case. Put the pan of hot wine on something heat proof in the middle of the table/room - everyone will want to watch this.
Set the pan drainer on the side of the pot and pile sugar cubes on it - you'll want to cover the drainer if you can, possibly with more than one layer. Then soak the cubes in rum and set fire to them! Add more rum to keep it all going until the sugar has melted through.
It's great fun
Just like normal mulled wine, you heat cheap red wine in a pan with oranges and lemons and your spices of choice - cinnamon and cloves in this case. Put the pan of hot wine on something heat proof in the middle of the table/room - everyone will want to watch this.
Set the pan drainer on the side of the pot and pile sugar cubes on it - you'll want to cover the drainer if you can, possibly with more than one layer. Then soak the cubes in rum and set fire to them! Add more rum to keep it all going until the sugar has melted through.
It's great fun
Pyromaniac.
munro90
snap and a 1st book with Flamel on the cover. Only down side is i started getting the adult covers from the 5th book so they don't quite fit together as a set.
(sorry i know that was a bit of a conversation resurection)
and a 1st book with Flamel on the cover. Only down side is i started getting the adult covers from the 5th book so they don't quite fit together as a set.(sorry i know that was a bit of a conversation resurection)
I only have 1st editions from the 4th book onwards BUT I did have the 1sst book with the Flamel cover. Until my little sister lost it. She replaced it, but of course it was Dumbledore on the front instead
ARGH I HATE SNOW. My best friend is supposed to be coming home later on from Glasgow, but with heavy snowfall predicted all over Belgium, its highly likely her flight will be cancelled. Which is horrid, because I NEED to see her. She might not even make it home for Xmas, as she's on Ryanair, who have no obligation to put you on the next flight, only to refund you. And every other airline is booked up. Which means she may be spending Christmas alone in her flat. Which is so so sad. PLEASE WEATHER GODS, DELAY THE SNOW, PLEASE...
Trying to book coach tickets for a coach I need to take in 1.5 hours. But the National Express website seems to be down, argh! This is not good.
And snow - will make it that much harder to get to Parkside/Heathrow. And makes me very worried about delays/cancellations, was stalking the Heathrow website yesterday and almost all the flights were delayed (some by quite a few hours)!
And snow - will make it that much harder to get to Parkside/Heathrow.
And makes me very worried about delays/cancellations, was stalking the Heathrow website yesterday and almost all the flights were delayed (some by quite a few hours)!
I love the fact that there is soooo much snow outside (around 4 inches) and it is still snowing heavily. Looking forward to tomorrow definitely 
psyche87
Yikes - hope you made it on time to Heathrow and that the flight was on time/ not too delayed!
I realised I had no cash, so I ended up trekking to Parkside from my house in the snow at 2am. It took my about 40 minutes with luggage, when it would normally take me 15. I then waited for the coach for almost an hour, only to be informed that the coach was going to be delayed until 6 am. I needed to be at Heathrow by 6:30. I took a taxi with three randoms from the bus stop. It was the most frightening car journey of my life (and trust me, I've been on some pretty hair raising trips in the past!) and we witnessed a couple of crashes on the A505. We had to turn around after 30 miles and drive back towards Cambridge to get the M11 instead.
Made it in to Heathrow one piece and on time though...phew! Thankfully my flight was not cancelled and not technically delayed. We ended up being delayed by an hour or so though because a rather unlucky woman who worked for the ground staff slipped in the ice and smacked her head onto the tarmac and was knocked unconscious! She'd just come on to the bus to warn us about the ice on the tarmac, and asked us to wait for a few minutes. She left the bus, took a few steps, and BANG. I really hope she's not too badly injured.
My flight was pretty uneventful, and meant I could sleep for the first time in 60 hours (i was on a transplant on Wed night/thurs morning and got back to cam at 1830ish, and then went to a friend's for xmas dinner). Made it to our home in India, where it's a nice 28C indoors. Woop!
*is off for more gin on the beach with my dad*
urgh, naively applied for things at start of holidays meaning I now need to rely on post to arrive around christmas time to meet the deadlines, so i'll almost certainly miss them and have to apply again or something (and pay to apply again)
but it's finally snowed, so yay
but it's finally snowed, so yay
visesh
I realised I had no cash, so I ended up trekking to Parkside from my house in the snow at 2am. It took my about 40 minutes with luggage, when it would normally take me 15. I then waited for the coach for almost an hour, only to be informed that the coach was going to be delayed until 6 am. I needed to be at Heathrow by 6:30. I took a taxi with three randoms from the bus stop. It was the most frightening car journey of my life (and trust me, I've been on some pretty hair raising trips in the past!) and we witnessed a couple of crashes on the A505. We had to turn around after 30 miles and drive back towards Cambridge to get the M11 instead.
Made it in to Heathrow one piece and on time though...phew! Thankfully my flight was not cancelled and not technically delayed. We ended up being delayed by an hour or so though because a rather unlucky woman who worked for the ground staff slipped in the ice and smacked her head onto the tarmac and was knocked unconscious! She'd just come on to the bus to warn us about the ice on the tarmac, and asked us to wait for a few minutes. She left the bus, took a few steps, and BANG. I really hope she's not too badly injured.
My flight was pretty uneventful, and meant I could sleep for the first time in 60 hours (i was on a transplant on Wed night/thurs morning and got back to cam at 1830ish, and then went to a friend's for xmas dinner). Made it to our home in India, where it's a nice 28C indoors. Woop!
*is off for more gin on the beach with my dad*
Made it in to Heathrow one piece and on time though...phew! Thankfully my flight was not cancelled and not technically delayed. We ended up being delayed by an hour or so though because a rather unlucky woman who worked for the ground staff slipped in the ice and smacked her head onto the tarmac and was knocked unconscious! She'd just come on to the bus to warn us about the ice on the tarmac, and asked us to wait for a few minutes. She left the bus, took a few steps, and BANG. I really hope she's not too badly injured.
My flight was pretty uneventful, and meant I could sleep for the first time in 60 hours (i was on a transplant on Wed night/thurs morning and got back to cam at 1830ish, and then went to a friend's for xmas dinner). Made it to our home in India, where it's a nice 28C indoors. Woop!
*is off for more gin on the beach with my dad*
Sounds like quite an adventure! Hope you have a great trip- Merry Christmas!
I'm in Bristol with three sets of family in the house and cousins loudly tearing up and down various floors (it has about four) shrieking their heads off. Somebody seems to be watching Beauty and the Beast upstairs. An Uncle is doing a massive fry up in the kitchen. A fourth branch of family left after our big family dinner last night.
Unfortunately I think I have a cold or something. I had an absolutely hideous time getting here from Cambridge yesterday. Once I left my room I realised I just had way too much stuff. 55l rucksack on my back. A laptop rucksack on my front with six books, two files and my laptop and a giant shopping bag in one hand with loads of presents including several litres of port for various relatives
Of course there weren't any taxis when I called, so I walked up Pembroke street to get a bus at Emmanuel street, and I slipped on the ice and came down like a tonne of bricks, stuff flying everywhere. The rest of the journey wasn't too bad except for feeling sick. Today I woke up with a hideous headache and stiff all over from carrying all of that stuff. Oh well. I'm planning to walk to a coffee shop this afternoon to do some work. The house is impossible at the minute. Once two families leave tomorrow it will be a bit more manageable.
Unfortunately I think I have a cold or something. I had an absolutely hideous time getting here from Cambridge yesterday. Once I left my room I realised I just had way too much stuff. 55l rucksack on my back. A laptop rucksack on my front with six books, two files and my laptop and a giant shopping bag in one hand with loads of presents including several litres of port for various relatives
Of course there weren't any taxis when I called, so I walked up Pembroke street to get a bus at Emmanuel street, and I slipped on the ice and came down like a tonne of bricks, stuff flying everywhere. The rest of the journey wasn't too bad except for feeling sick. Today I woke up with a hideous headache and stiff all over from carrying all of that stuff. Oh well. I'm planning to walk to a coffee shop this afternoon to do some work. The house is impossible at the minute. Once two families leave tomorrow it will be a bit more manageable.
Craghyrax
I had to do Politics, Psychology and Social Anthropology in first year and I hated the first two of these.
I still have yet to do any Christmas shopping. Am heading up to Oxford Street tomorrow to try and get it all done then. Will be MANIC.
brimstone
I still have yet to do any Christmas shopping. Am heading up to Oxford Street tomorrow to try and get it all done then. Will be MANIC.
I still have yet to do any Christmas shopping. Am heading up to Oxford Street tomorrow to try and get it all done then. Will be MANIC.
I don't hate proper Politics, I just hate Western liberal thought. I.e. the politics Cambridge cares to teach
brimstone
I still have yet to do any Christmas shopping. Am heading up to Oxford Street tomorrow to try and get it all done then. Will be MANIC.
I still have yet to do any Christmas shopping. Am heading up to Oxford Street tomorrow to try and get it all done then. Will be MANIC.
I did Oxford Street yesterday, it was manic :| You can't just stop walking, you have to check over your shoulders and slowly veer over to the edge of the pavement.
I walked into so many people. Humans should come with indicators.
haha RATM got it!!! 
Craghyrax
Rage against the machine got number one in the charts! This has made my christmas! And a free gig as well!
It could be lupus
Rage against the machine got number one in the charts! This has made my christmas! And a free gig as well!
Oh right. I didn't read your post properly. To me it looked like: "RATM... Got it!" And I was thinking, 'what's to get?
'Anyway cool - although as other people said, it would be so much better if they could have done it for charity
And if that made your Christmas, you're easy to please...
Craghyrax
Oh right. I didn't read your post properly. To me it looked like: "RATM... Got it!" And I was thinking, 'what's to get? '
Anyway cool - although as other people said, it would be so much better if they could have done it for charity
And if that made your Christmas, you're easy to please...
'Anyway cool - although as other people said, it would be so much better if they could have done it for charity
And if that made your Christmas, you're easy to please...
Hmm they are giving the majority of their money earned from the sales to charity.
And yes I know. Its just that this Christmas is mainly involving work:either of a money earning kind or uni kind-hardly makes for an exciting Christmas. Although I do actually think the snow might actually be better
It could be lupus
Hmm they are giving the majority of their money earned from the sales to charity.
It could be lupus
And yes I know. Its just that this Christmas is mainly involving work:either of a money earning kind or uni kind-hardly makes for an exciting Christmas. Although I do actually think the snow might actually be better
And yes I know. Its just that this Christmas is mainly involving work:either of a money earning kind or uni kind-hardly makes for an exciting Christmas. Although I do actually think the snow might actually be better
Ah. I share your pain. I've got so much work to do its not funny. And at the moment I'm in a big house with two sets of relatives and all of my younger cousins are racing up and down the house 24/7 screaming, and there isn't anywhere quiet I can go. And I've gotten a bad cold and have a headache
At least the one branch leave tomorrow, and the three remaining cousins will be a bit quieter without people to play with. I'm going to have to be very productive from tomorrow onwards.
Still, Christmas will be nice enough for me if I manage to stick to a model of hard work in the morning and afternoon and chilling out/helping with food prep/eating/socialising in the evenings.
It could be lupus
haha RATM got it!!!
Lucky I didn't place that bet on X-factor in the end. 
Craghyrax
Oh, I didn't know that. I'm glad to hear it.
Ah. I share your pain. I've got so much work to do its not funny. And at the moment I'm in a big house with two sets of relatives and all of my younger cousins are racing up and down the house 24/7 screaming, and there isn't anywhere quiet I can go. And I've gotten a bad cold and have a headache
At least the one branch leave tomorrow, and the three remaining cousins will be a bit quieter without people to play with. I'm going to have to be very productive from tomorrow onwards.
Still, Christmas will be nice enough for me if I manage to stick to a model of hard work in the morning and afternoon and chilling out/helping with food prep/eating/socialising in the evenings.
Yeah I thought it was really good of them to do that.
That does not sound productive to work. I have 4 younger siblings which are not productive at all to any uni work so I understand your problem
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