The beginning of Summer 2012

Finally summer has started! It's officially been a year since I last saw my cousins and I miss them! From day 1 of the summer break here, Ramzan started, which means I have to cancel my plans to go play squash for my duke of Edinburgh award and spend the day at home. As fun as that might sound, there really isn't much to do at home! I mean yesterday I fasted and i'm fasting today as well and I thought there would be loads to do but I just ended up in bed, checking my facebook and twitter every 5 minutes! I also read books but mostly I lay around in bed, my brain had me resorting to humming an out-of-tune version of Lights by Ellie Golding and making random cat noises.

So I thought that I should, over the summer, do something productive. The first thing that came to mind was my scrapbook about my french exchange (I still need to fill in about meeting her family), but after looking at my clearly messy table, I gave up. I know I really need to finish it before I go into year 11, but for some reason I really can't be bothered! I had a look at pintrest and found some really good things, so i'll see if I can be bothered to make them.

Anyway, I had better go do something now, so enjoy your holidays everyone!
xxnozzles

Coming to the end of school?

It's nearly summer! My initial reaction was "yay i can spend all day on twitter", but after staying up all night and not being able to sleep, my mind wandered into that area and a sudden realisation hit me: i'm going to year 11 next year. it's really big, it's not like in primary school where you were going to secondary school after. It's like you know when you were a kid and you used to think "wish i could come to the end of school" ? Yeah well when that happens, it's pretty scary. I mean next year's my proper GCSE year... i know i gave some GCSE's this year but next year they'll be the final-final ones! And plus next year will be my last year of school, because after that i have sixth-form to worry about, and A levels and whatnot! I won't have any time for anything anymore... i won't be able to just sit there on rainy days, with the rain pattering against my window and me snuggled into bed with hot chocolate and a notebook, just sitting there doodling... i'll be sitting at my table, revising everything, from the digestive system to the future of the earth, giving up all my free time just to be able to remember all the stuff! And that means i'll be spending my summer holidays revising too... i need to know this year's stuff pretty well for next year, so there's no escaping revision. I won't do it all day, just 2 hours each day will be enough, but still. And then i think about if i was going to another country this summer i'd have so much more fun (like India: parents planned to go there and then cancelled at the last minute, which really annoyed me because i HATE summer at home. Plus i've forgotten half of my family there and i need to go see my cousins.)

So yeah, thats pretty much it- my creativity juice is running dry.
Have a nice summer everyone x
nozzles

Easy sponge cake :D

So recently for my duke of Edinburgh award i've been doing a ton of cooking (about 3 months of it), and this week I decided to bake a cake. I have a pretty simple recipe that i found on the internet once in a blue moon and i'm just going to share it. Here goes..

ingredients:

(if you want to make a small-ish cake)

100g self raising flour

100g butter (it can be salted or unsalted, but personally i prefer salted)

100g caster sugar (or confectioners sugar)

2 eggs

Method

1. preheat oven to 180degrees C gas mark 4

2. cut the butter into little cubes. You need to do this to make sure it mixes well. Mix the butter cubes and  the caster sugar together (preferably using a hand mixer) until it becomes soft and fluffy. If it keeps spraying everywhere just be patient and keep squishing the butter.

3. crack the 2 eggs into a bowl and whisk. add this to your sugar and butter mixture and mix thoroughly.

4. sieve the self-raising flour and sieve it. add little amounts of it to the mixture and mix really well.

5. after you've mixed in the flour well, keep mixing for about 5 minutes (usually i turn on the oven at this point) (just to make sure all the ingredients are mixed) 

6. bake until golden brown and until fork comes out clean

7. if you want to cover it in icing, mix together icing sugar and water until it makes a thin watery paste, and spread over cake

and thats it :D i find this recipe really easy and you can use it for cupcakes too- just halve all the ingredients. hope you enjoyed

xxnozzles