they violated my face! - number 12

fskdhfjejfktlldjd - actually it didn't hurt that much

The brow bar of debenhams was the host of my torture and what fun it was. I have been told on occasion that I have a mono brow so when I rang the sister she sighed a sigh of relief "finally"

The first problem we encountered was that I couldn't understand what the women was saying to me, she had to show me through gestures , no your hand doesn't go there, hold the skin taut and......ouchy

They violated my face and I had to pay for the privilege, what madness is this!

number 1 - the rag rug of doom

The packaging says easy.fun.quick. Five years begs to differ. Its more like a hard, fiddly, slow pain in the bum. Each row takes an average of about half an hour to complete thats without any mistakes. Trust me there were many, I wanted to shred it to pieces on multiple occasions

Rossogollas-10

Hands up who knows what Rossogollas actually are? Nope didn't think so. Rossogollas are a kind of Indian sweet -I think, made out of Chenna  with nuts and then like boiled in syrup yeah its slightly bizarre.

Making Rossogollas was number 10 on my list so I set out to make the kitchen a mess- that was pretty much the only thing I managed to do as when I was separating the curds and whey through the tea towel lets just say the stuff went everywhere and I was covered in molten not-quite-cheese.

I am aware that when separating curds and whey, one should use muslin, not any old tea towel , so it would not come to too much of  a surprise that my plan didn't exactly go to plan, meaning that the mixture was funneled through the towel multiple times, hence resulting more of the liquid to spill and leave me with truly cheesy jeans.  The recipe said that by using 4 litres of milk, I would be able to make 30 rossogollas, yet as I didn't know how any of this was going to work I only used 1 litre of milk but only ended up with enough curd (or panneer as the Indians call it) for 3 Rossogollas -epic fail, so either I have ended up with incredibly curdy whey or I just failed. To make the panneer in chenna - if you want to know how that works- you add a tbsp of both flour and sugar, this is also where I added the nuts.

 The syrup is basically sugar and water and some rosewater to taste. The Rossogollas are boiled for 10 minutes but this makes them soggy so I'm slightly confused as to what the point was but they are still yummy but just oddly textured....shame I only made 3.......

number 6- everybody loves the post box

Me, being particularly clever have managed to leave a good proportion of my summer clothes in Bath- epic fail.So I needed to buy some new clothes for our trip to France. Luckily for me, I was able to coincide this with my goal to visit Durham.

At the end of school, people decided to go in either two directions. There were a few of us (me being one) who went to uni down South. Yet the majority of people went North, namely Durham.
I agreed to meet my other tweedle half for lunch. Fortunately for her my sense of direction is rather amazing (lol) and the conversation went something like this "where are you?"
"I'm on a bridge, near a church" -helpful

By some near miracle Sophie was able to find me and we went for an amiable lunch. Poor Soph had forgotten quite how weird I am when i started dancing along with my quiche. An hour was up too soon and Sophie ran off to meet her supervisor, she swears that he's an alcoholic as he mentioned to bring up gin in the conversation eight times in an hour - obsessive much *ahem*

This left me to do a spot of retail therapy although it did not quite go to plan as I entered the shop thinking - white trousers I need white linen trousers- and coming out with khaki cargo pants

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After her meeting, I was taken  to the palace green to see the cathedral like every good tourist should. Whilst tweedle dee looked for a trustworthy looking tourist to take a group photo, I got distracted by the bright red post box. Everybody loves post boxes right?

POSE!!!!

number 5 -I need the toilet

Meet one of the world's busiest women. its nearing the end of my second year at uni and Louise still hadn't come to visit. It was therefore decided that getting Louise to come to Bath was was a must and ASAP.

The phrase "start as you intend to go on" springs to mind as Louise pulls into our drive half an hour late, in true Schneider style.The drive down normally takes 4 hours with no stops, this was however not the case this time as we were informed driving through Manchester that we were stopping at the services for a loo trip. After a brief stop, we set off again but less than 20 minutes later guess who needed the toilet again.And so the journey continued.

On Sunday we started the day with a trip to Beckford's Tower. The Bath Preservation Trust have got their sign posting down to a tee as we spent a good while figuring out where the entrance was.
With its panoramic views of the city this seemed like a good introduction to the city. Not so much if your sense of direction is as dire as mine.

The tea house emporium was the next stop on our route, the customer service however left a lot to be desired as the girl behind the counter seemed irritated by our very presence  answering many of our questions with monosyllabic answers as we went round smelling all the teas on offer.

The afternoon was spent at the fashion museum where, inspired by the royal wedding, we were able to look at how the wedding dress has developed as well as trying on corsets and crinolines

We then ventured upstairs to look round the Assembly rooms where the elite came to party in the 18th century. Anyone for a wedding?

number 15 -SLATTERYS!!!

I'm a great fan of spontaneity so you can imagine my surprise and delight when I was woken up this morning to be told that I was going on a half  day chocolate course at no other than the home of yummyness = Slattery.

Slattery's is a family run business  and I've been to the restaurant there so many times before that I'm friends with the guy at reception. As per I was the first to arrive in that hallowed hall, with all the tempering machines it was enough to make my mouth water and i felt rather inclined to stick my head under the flow of chocolate...

They started the afternoon with a talk about where the lovely brown gooey stuff comes from and its journey from a bean into my tummy.We then proceeded to play with the stuff and made a teddy bear and chocolate cups using moulds, lollipops and truffles.Of course to help minimise the clearing up I went round hoovering up the left over chocolate.

 For the moulds, we filled them with chocolate from the tempering machines then held the mould over a vibrating tray to get rid of the air bubbles,we then scraped off the excess chocolates and left the chocolate to set before putting on a second layer. Unfortunatley one of my chocolate cups was coated too thinly and it shattered. leading to a trip to the chocolate hospital where vast amounts of chocolate glue had to be applied.

 me and my delightful hair net and the doggy doodoo truffles

 The ganache was made by mixing together chocolate and cream, we then piped the ganache into truffle shapes,the required shape was balls, mine looked more like what comes out of the rear end of a dog.

Wearing a white apron was definatley a mistake as by the end of the season it was a lovely shade of brown as was the rest of me lol.

 I made enough chocolate to feed a small army woop woop!!

all packaged up and ready to go

The Bucket List

Evening All

In the spirit of a bucket list, I have decided to make a list of 21 things for me to do before I am 21, this gives me seven months to complete and I have decided to document what I've been up to so that you can all marvel at my incompetence lol
so here's the list:

1. Finish my rag rug
2.have a professional massage
3. learn to belly dance
4.do a bakery course
5. Get Louise Schneider to come to Bath
6.visit Durham
7. knock down a wall
8. read 21 books
9. have lunch at the Butcher's Arms
10. make Rossogollas
11.write a song
12.get my eyebrows threaded
13.have a musical marathon
14.make some soap
15. do a course at Slattery's
16.eat at the Priory
17.go to Felbrigg Hall
18.the lonesome adventurer
19. go on my jollies with Emily
20. raise money for charity
21. create a blog about all my shennanigans