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In further proof that Mondays are my day for attempting maintain delusions about myself as simultaneously domestic goddess and organised and enthusiastic member of the university community I've started up a soup club for Monday lunchtimes. For those of you who haven't been brainwashed since an early age to the strange rituals of teachers, this ...

I caught public transport to uni this morning. Getting to campus without the 78 buses sucks. Having your front numberplate fall off your car in the middle of the freeway sucks. I suspect that my interchange at lunchtime with the lisencing department will - guess what - suck. Nonetheless, there is cheerful old-school jazz turned up loud ...

My first run of this recipe involved a pleasing amount of home-made/grown ingredients, with the exception of the gnocchi (which I know how to make but decided not to, in the interests of dinner before 9pm). But I like the recipie so much I made it again on the weekend, proving that shop-bought ingredients may not be as good for the soul, but they ...

This recipe comes from my sister, and today seems a good day to share it - given the suspiciously quiet Scholars Centre. The Breakfast (Hang-over) Bake has all the important post-big night out breakfast components, and is prepared in advance, so all you need to do is put it in the oven while getting more water and painkillers the next ...

What do you do if you have a surplus of limes lying around the house? This is obviously one of the great existential questions in life, which I was forced to confront this weekend after I got suckered into the on-sale limes from the fuit and vege shop last week. They were looking yellow and rather miserable, so something had to be done. Normally ...

Monday recipies are back! And now that the weather is cooling down, it's the perfect time for soup. Broccoli and Blue Cheese Soup(warning: if anyone in your house doesn't like these ingredients, wait till they are out for the evening, as the house will smell like the soup for some time.)Ingredients:1 head broccoli1 brown onionnob of butterchicken ...

This morning I opened up iTunes and pressed play on Mermaid Avenue (Billy Bragg and Wilco). Over the day, Bing Crosby (skipped quickly), Bob Dylan, Bon Jovi, Carus and the True Believers, the Buffy Musical, Cat Empire, Chris Isaak, and (at the moment) Coldplay have all appeared. I tend to hit play and leave it, tuning in and out depending on how ...

My dog decided to do a reverse re-enactment of the standard WWII POW drama last night: he dug his way into the vegetable garden under the fence, then spent hours barking because he couldn't figure out how to get out. I found this out at 3ish in the morning. I am tired and unamused. The majority of the pumpkin seedlings survived.I love reticulation ...

In honour of my sister's new 'crystal-look' Tupperware cakestand (it is actually blatantly plastic and rather tacky) I made cupcakes on the weekend. I tried to be good and leave the majority uneaten so they could be displayed, but the various emotional traumas in Grey's Anatomy had to be redressed by cupcake consumption, and so the few ...

or, I hacked up a leg: how did you spend your weekend? The leg in question was the goat's: it arrived on my doorstep, frozen in goatsicle form, on Thursday night to be defrosted over Saturday and dismembered into gobbets of flesh on Sunday. It was for a medieval(oid) feast and so the recipe below follows medieval tradition in leaving out ...