Job Hunting

Last week I had three job interviews! After getting nothing for ages it was quie a relief. They all went pretty well, and I've been offered a casual post office job that starts in a couple of months. It will be dull but it's better than nothing! Still waiting to hear back from the others. I might end up with two jobs! :D

I had another rescue last week. It was a collared dove this time that had jumped the nest too young and couldn't fly. He seemed healthy otherwise so Tiggy's will look after him until he's old enough to look after himself and then he should be released :) Happy ending!

I've also been knitting this guy for the past week or so. The pattern was really cute and easy to follow. I think I will probably make some more at some point! I gave him a scarf to disguise the fact that I sewed his arms on a bit low giving him a reeeally long neck, lol. 

 

Tea Party!

I completed my first rescue for Tiggywinkles this week! Nothing very exciting, I just had to pick up a tawny owl from a lady’s house. He possibly had an injured wing. I keep meaning to ring and ask if he was ok but I’m worried it will be bad news. He was effer so cute.

An unhappy owl :(

Friday was my mum’s birthday, she has reached half a century! So we had a tea party at a posh house called Luton Hoo. It’s a really nice place and the grounds are lovely but unfortunately it was pouring down with rain while we were there. The tea and cakes were still good though! And I think my ma had a good time.

 

 

I have seen a few films recently, trying to occupy the huge emptiness that is my time at the moment. Went to see Woman in Black at the cinema which I was hopeful for because I have seen the play in the West End and it was amazingggg. The film was alright but not what I expected. They changed a few bits which I thought was unnecessary. Also Daniel Radcliffe can’t act, although he didn’t have much to say in this film which meant it wasn’t quite so apparent. The scenery and settings were really good though. Just how I imagined :)

Another film I have seen recently that I enjoyed a lot more is Mother. It’s a Korean film directed by the same person who did The Host and Memories of Murder which are two other films I really like. Mother is about a woman who is trying to get her son cleared of a murder that she is convinced he didn’t commit. The plot sounds quite simple but there are lots of unexpected aspects to it. I think it is definitely worth a watch, or maybe two.

Ooh, a last note because which makes me realise how little I update this blog. Congratulations to my friend Amreen (Anne-Marie) who had her baby boy a couple of weeks ago. He is sooo cute and I can’t wait to brainwash him to like ‘cool’ stuff like science and knitting ;)

Bye for now!

Lucy

Interview, knitting, and CROCHET!

Had my RVC interview on Wednesday! At the moment I’m thinking I probably haven’t got in, but it depends on how everyone else did I think. Some of the stations were really good and others were really bad :( The RVC are interviewing until the 21^st March, so I won’t hear anything until after then. It seems so loooong to wait! 

Even though the interview wasn’t amazing it was nice looking around the campus. I have been to the Hawkshead campus on an open day but I hadn’t visited Camden campus before. There is a little anatomy museum inside which is really cool; lots of skeletons and pickled animal parts! Some of the skeletons spilled over into the cafe as well. I was sitting in there waiting for my interview next to an elephant skeleton which was pretty cool. 

If I get in I had been planning on travelling in every day since it’s not that far, but now I kind of want to live in halls again, lol. I didn’t really like living in halls at Nottingham but the RVC ones seem really nice and they are just 2 minutes from the uni building which would be nice (instead of being a 2 hour bus journey away).

Moving away from interview-speak: I have knit this!

 

Isn’t it cute? It is a bed bug from this book that I mentioned a few posts ago. I did make him a hat like the example in the book but it didn’t fit him very well :( Think it needs some larger needles.

Two bedbugs together

Ooh, also I tried crochet. I think the yarn I have is a bit thick for my hook size (I only have two hooks at the moment and they’re both quite small) but it didn’t turn out as badly as I expected. At first I wanted to go running back to the knitting needles but after a while I decided it wasn’t so bad. I haven’t attempted an actual pattern yet, I think I will get some better sized hooks first. I look forward to trying some amigurumi patterns though.

This picture isn’t of my very first attempt (which I seem to have lost) but is just some single crochet practice:

 Bye for now!

Lucy

My bed is being taken over

Recently I have been waking up to find this on my pillow:

You may notice that there is not much room left for me. He has worked out how to start off by curling up on one corner of the pillow and then gradually stretching out to push me off. Maybe I should just move him, but would you want to disturb this little sleepy face?

(Why yes, I am just putting off revision/interview prep)

Lucy

Christmas knits

It has come to my attention that I haven't posted anything knitty in a while! So here are a couple of things I have made recently.
Firstly, a hot water bottle cover, which I finished just two days ago although it was supposed to be a Christmas present. Oops!

 

It's dark blue on one side and light blue on the other but the photos have changed the colour a bit. I'm happy with the cable side but the other one went a but yucky along the edges when I changed from knit to purl :( Oh well, it's functional and that's what counts!

Next is a scarf which I knitted for meeeee. I made a few with the same pattern for Christmas and they knit up really quickly and don't use too much wool which is nice. You can see another one I made for Kerry at her blog. It's in a picture with a little bunny I knitted for her a couple of years ago. I think I have improved since then! Hehe

 

I'm currently knitting a pattern from this book, just for fun.The patterns are all soooo cute! I got the book for my birthday last year but all I've made from it so far is a few nano hamsters. I aim to make all of the patterns at some point, and an army of hamsters! Next blog post I'll hopefully have a finished item to show you.

In other news, I was rejected from Nottingham vet school. Not too surprised because they are a bit biased against graduates but I would have liked at least an interview first! RVC was my first choice anyway, so it just means I have to do super good at my interview next week and hopefully get an offer. Eek! I'm very very scared. I hope I don't mess up.

Oooh, also I had a haircut today! I've been putting it off for ages so it's quite a relief, lol. I won't look quite so scruff at interview now. :D

That's about it for now, bye!

Lucy

(Belated) Happy New Year!

The new year is going well so far! I have heard back from the Royal Vet College and I have an interview at the end of the month :D I’m pretty nervous (actually really super nervous) but I’m hoping I can at least do ok and not embarrass myself. An offer afterwards would be amazing but I don’t want to get my hopes up too much!

I had a call from St Tiggywinkles this morning to go on my first proper rescue for a goose that is caught in some fishing line. Unfortunately the goose flew off before I arrived; the people who called it in had been feeding it bread to make it stay nearby but it eventually decided it had had enough! If it returns I might go out in the morning to try again. Fingers crossed he will be caught safely and make it to the wildlife hospital. 

I have finished my job at Past Times which was sad but at least now I have time to concentrate on exam revision and interview preparation. On the closing day for the last half an hour or so everything was reduced to £1 :o so I got a few bargains including this book which has some amaaazing photos, and a few gifts for people which I won’t mention because I haven’t given them to them yet (and I probably shouldn’t have said that because now they will know they only cost £1!). 

In other news, Charlie the cat is in disgrace after the theft of a joint of beef bigger than his head that was intended for next day's dinner. It was stolen from the kitchen counter and chewed to a mushy pulp within seconds. He maintains his innocence...

The accused

Bye for now!

Lucy