I'm Back! ...Sort of...

So, I'm back at school. Third year, I can't quite believe it! I'm all settled in to a new flat, have five new courses to wrap my head around (including Swedish - hej alla!), and hopefully I am ready to get back into the swing of blogging!
There are going to be some changes around here for now, since I have yet to figure out just how to balance my workload. For one, I am going to go from Artist of the Week to Song of the Week. There are a few reasons for this, but one big one is that I'm worried that I will run out of artists of whom I own an extensive back catalogue! Secondly, I have decided that this semester is going to be about improving my cooking skills, and that means following other people's recipes. I will still do my own recipes occasionally, but more often than not, I will be showing you my results from using other people's recipes.
I hope to have something new up soon, but in the mean time here are a couple of the cooking adventures I've had since I last saw you:

Cooking *live* shrimp

moments later, one jumped across the room.

Cocktails with The Hungry Undergrad!

Life Update!

If you follow my blog at all, you may have started to notice a pattern developing: I get very quiet when I go home. I have no particular excuse for that, just that I have been enjoying having time to relax and catch up with everyone! Just thought I'd give you a little update on what I've been up to, to prove that I am still alive! My first few weeks back have been fairly eventful, lots of music and theatre, lots of food!

So, here goes - I've included links to everything in case you are interested

War and Peace at the Circus, Ridonkulous Amounts of Squee, Guy Garvey Knows I Exist!, That Bit Where Darren's Shirt Went See-Through, David Tennant Covered in Paint and Catherine Tate's Lovely Legs, A Day of Culture, The End of My Childhood, Beards and Bare Chests at the RSC and A Date With The Truck Monster!

also, here are a couple of things I've been cooking

30 Day Song Challenge - Day 27

Today calls for A song that you wish you could play. Though there are many songs I wish I could play, I think this is top of the list. I know I will never be able to play it, and I just love the way it sounds. It is Canadee-i-o by Nic Jones, a folk song from Labrador.



Luckily for me, there is a slightly more achievable version - and it is on octave mandolin! This is from Jon Boden's folk song a day project, and the guy playing is Dan Plews


A folk Song A Day - Jon Boden - Canadee-io & Bold Sir Rylas from edward cooper on Vimeo.

30 Day Song Challenge - Day 26

Day 26 is A song that you can play on an instrument. Well, it isn't really a song, it's a dance tune, and it is my absolute favourite thing to play on the cello.

This version is performed by Mischa Maisky who, it has to be said, has some fantastic hair.

30 Day Song Challenge - Day 25

I'm awful, I know. Let's get on with day 25 - A song that makes you laugh. Many songs make me laugh, for many reasons - they could be comedy songs, or they could be so bad that they are just hilarious! I've gone for the first one that popped into my head.