Radio Silence

I am off to Chicago for a week to get away and see Rachel. Hoorah!

Random Thursday 2

Here is today's Random Thursday picture...


Me thinks they did not check this ad sufficiently before posting it on the back of a London bus. I hope the Mister in the picture is cervix savvy!!

In other news, I am off for an interview. Wish me luck!

Reasons to be Cheerful

• My dissertation have been handed in
• I was offered an interview for a job in Salisbury
• I was also offered an interview for a job in Worthing
• I saw beautiful Anna for lunch
• I saw the lovely Kate at the iKnit show and knit with some lovely people
• I have finished my Forest Canopy shawl (pics when blocked)
• I have bought some lovely shiny new wool
• The sun was shining and the sky was blue and it wasn't too hot =)
  

FO Friday

FO is Finished Object. Normally applied to knitting or spinning projects, today I am gong to use it to announce that ...

***My Dissertation Is Done***

I am off to get it bound and hand it in today and I plan to dance my way to the iKnit weekender after lunch with Anna.

Pic later!

Please continue with your normally scheduled Friday =)

Random Thursday 1

From now on, Thursdays are Random! I am going to put up random pictures I have taken with my mobile so that they don't sit languishing on my hard drive for ever and ever. First up are these seagul footprints. I took this one on the Gower in February. Every year, Phill and his friends (The House of Trou!) meet up in Swansea where they went to uni and watch the England Wales 6 nations rugby match. I love Swansea. It has beach! I love the beach. One day I will get a job near a beach, hopefully this one, so I can walk on it whenever I want and draw pictures in the sand.

Fancy Tshirt

My friend Simon found this and said it would be a perfect tshirt for me. I can think of several other people who would also love it so here it is:

Cat! I'm a Kitty Cat

Yum Yum Chicken Recipe

Here is the recipe for the delicious chicken.

One Pan Spanish Chicken (from Sainsbury's September 2009 issue)
Serve 4

2 tins of butter beans or cannellini beans, drained (I used one of each)
2 medium sweet potatoes, peeled and chopped into chunks
3 red peppers, seeded and chopped into chunks
about 250g chorizo, cut into chunks
1 bulb of garlic with the outside skin removed but left whole
200ml chicken stock
juice of a large orange plus extra oranges to chop into wedges, if you want them
2 tsp smoked paprika
8 chicken thighs with the skin on and the bone in
1 tbsp olive oil
sage leaves
salt (the big kind, not the pouring kind)

1. preheat the oven to 220C. Put the beans, sweet potatoes, peppers, chorizo and garlic in a big old roasting pan.

2. mix the stock, orange juice and 1tsp of the paprika and pour over the veg in the tin.

3. put the chicken thighs on top and sprinkle with a little teeny bit of salt to make the skin go mmmm crispy

4. put it in the oven and go do something esle for 40 minutes

5. mix the rest of the paprika with the olive oil and brush over the chicken skin. dip the sage leaves in a bit of oil and arrange them artfully over the top of the veg and chicken.

6. stick it all back in the oven for 10 minutes. I turned the heat right up here to make it go super crispy. Serve with a salad if you want something green. I did but it wasn't really necessary and there was a huuuge amount of food. I reckon if you plonked a bit more chieck on the top you could feed 6 as there is a lot of veg here!

7. enjoy =)

Yum Scrum

Tonight I have cooked something new. I found a recipe in the Sainsbury's magazine for Spanish Roasted Chicken. And my goodness was it good!

It has peppers, sweet potato, various beans, chorizo and chicken with its skin on so it goes all crispy. I will find the recipe and right it up cos everyone should try this! Yum Yum! The recipe also has variations for French, Mexican and Italian Roasted Chicken by changing a few of the ingredients each time. They will all now be tried!

Pretty Socks

Hmmm... I have been rubbish at updating. Unfortunately, Life has been a little dull recently. I am plugging away at my dissertation, trying to get it all done. I have, however, knitted a beautiful sock and have started the second. Here it is...
I have also taken a bunch of photos of stuff on my phone but the bluetooth wotsit for my computer has stopped working so the photos are stuck for a while. Rubbish!