Short Posts & Crampy Hands

Hello Splodgies! 

I have been cutting up cardboard fish all day, and as a result have a crampy hand. As a result of a crampy hand I'm not feeling much like typing very much. So I shall stop. 

Sorry most of my recent posts have been ...short. I've been so busy lately that when I get to my laptop to get to my blog, I am so sleepy that I don't know what to write- even if I've had a great idea earlier in the day!

Today, this is me:

See you tomorrow!

-Rosa

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Tea tree oil is amazing

Hello Splodgies!

Recently I discovered the wonders of tea tree oil.

What with all this cold and windy weather, I've been having quite a bit more trouble with my skin than usual, what with it drying out and becoming very itchy and so on. 

The past few days I've been using A LOT of tea tree oil on my skin. Like, you know how you're only supposed to use a few drops? Well I've been using lots of drops. I lost count. Because I wasn't counting. And then moisturiser on the top. It burns like hell for a few minutes but then after that the itchiness has gone and the moisturiser is dealing with the dryness. And it's helping to heal my eczema too! Here are a list of other things that tea tree oil is good for, none of which are currently irking me:

• acne [never really been a massive problem for me, but can understand why tea tree oil helps]
• decongestant
• head lice
• athlete's foot
• yeast infections
• dandruff
• sun burn

...its just that awesome. If anyone ever asks me what the secret to my great skin is (not that anyone ever has or will, because it's not that great, it's just not terrible) I will say "Oh, don't you know? It's tea tree oil!" Then swagger off looking very pleased with myself.

What's super great about it is it is so inexpensive, I got a little bottle at Bodycare for less than £1. I think it was 89p. And, for me, it's super effective. Like using a water type pokemon to fight a fire pokemon. 

Today, this is me: 

See you tomorrow!

-Rosa

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Catching Up

Hello Splodgies

Again, I have little to report today. Because I have been spending time catching up on three things:

1. Sleep
2. Friends
3. Writing (the non-blog kind)

So I hope you can all like... not think I'm a blog sellout for the past couple of posts. 

I'm feeling much much better :)

Today, this is me and I am happy today: 

See you tomorrow!

-Rosa

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A Day of Few Happenings

Hello Splodgies

After a very busy couple of days, I feel I have thoroughly earned my Sunday of doing nothing. 

Though I did have some good phone calls and clean up... so nothing to report really!

Hopefully I'll have more to say tomorrow, but I have definitely relished this day off. Its been the first I've had in about 3 weeks where I've not been doing things, or going somewhere, so I've rather enjoyed it. As I've not really got anything to say, I'll not be posting this on Facebook. Those who read this particular post are the true die-hard Daily Splodge fans :P

Today, this is me:

See you tomorrow!

-Rosa

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Pretty Landscape Photo Day

Hello dear splodgies!

Firstly, lots of thanks to those who responded to my FB status about finding out if the 00:15 bus exists. It does, I got it home. However, it only exists on a Friday and a Saturday. Whateverrrr.

I don't have much to say right now as I am extremely tired having got up very early this morning after having got in late last night too. However, I do have some more lovely photos to share with you. It seems that if you're in Keswick (or if I'm in Keswick as the case seems) you have alternate few days of really horrible rainy, sleety, snowy, haily weather, and then very cold, very bright days. Strange right? Anyway, today was a beautiful day, so take a look! 

This was on my way to the theatre after work: 

The sun began setting. It was rather dramatic: 

...literally #nofilter. 

Things were a little less dramatic in this picture, but nevertheless very pretty: 

This picture was taken in almost exactly the same spot as a picture I posted last Thursday that attracted a lot of attention on Facebook: 

This picture is from the same spot, but pointing in a different direction:

...I did use a filter for this one.

And today, this is me:

Shame you can't quite see the mountains against the sky- everything is white! 

See you tomorrow!

-Rosa

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p.s. Happy February! 

I am a tired human

Hello Splodgies! 

I'm late in, and have to get up early so I have only a few things to say tonight:

1. I finished the birds and posted them!

2. This is why I missed the bus.

3. It's probably not a good idea to ask the person ahead of you in the post office queue to post things for you, because they get very shifty about it, even though the sender's name and address, yours, is on the back and you've told them what's inside.

4. I like kitkats.

Today, this is me feeling supremely cool when I left the house this morning:

See you tomorrow!

-Rosa

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Stolen Cake (recipe)

Hello Splodgies! 

A number of odd things happened to me today.

Firstly, I was stood in the bus station minding my own business when a police car pulls up and the policewoman inside asks me if my name is Beverly. It's not, and I tell them this. They drive off without explanation.  

Secondly, when I was getting my bus back from Keswick I bought a discount muffin and a hot chocolate from the cafe in Booths whilst waiting for my bus. I got on the bus, not having started my muffin yet. But as I was sat on the bus eating it, something floated back into my memory. I knew this taste. I had had it before. Even though I have never bought any kind of muffin at booths. It was the same as a muffin recipe I had invented several years ago during the summer I had in the middle of 6th form. There was only one difference, flavour-wise. The muffin I bought at Booths was a raspberry, almond and white chocolate chip muffin. My muffin recipe was for raspberry, almond and lemon.  And at the time of creating this recipe, I had considered using white chocolate chips, but had experimented and decided that the white chocolate chips didn't make it into the final cut of the recipe. Why? Because lemon is better. White chocolate chips made it a bit too sweet. And having flavours happening in one muffin seemed a little excessive. Better to emphasise the lemon, with the subtlety of the almond and the zing of the raspberry then to clumsily add white chocolate chips willy-nilly! 

To paraphrase the recent words of Troy "there is yet to be a dish discovered that is not improved by lemon" And I'm certain he's right. 

It might have been the windy roads and the treacherous driving conditions, but I'm willing to blame my nausea on the way home on the muffin in question. Here's a picture of the muffin made with a stolen, early version of my recipe: 

Though it wasn't a bad muffin, I just begrudge whoever stole my recipe. And in all honesty, it's not absolutely inconceivable and out of the question that the recipe for the muffin I bought today had it's origins with me, for when I had perfected my own recipe, I did donate it to an independent cupcake company in Lancaster. And also my Grandmother on my father's side. But who's more likely to sell me out? ...I'll leave that for you to decide. 

Today, this is me enjoying my coffee before facing a blizzard on the way to work:

See you tomorrow!

-Rosa

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