Feeling Old

In the past few days I have had to fill in a number of forms that ask for your age and divide age into groups so you tick a box. I am used to always ticking the youngest group but recently I have found that I am having to tick the next box up - eek I am getting old! No longer am I 16-21 or 18-20 but now I am 22-30 or 21-25! At least I can still say that I am a student or in full time education unlike my housemates that are also in the realms of the second box age group! Haha!

Happy Birthday Beckrum!

So Beckrum is has now reached the ripe old age of 22! He she is at some of her finest moments:

A New Mystery

My more long term readers may remember the mystery of the multiplying yellow cup which I am sad to say still remains unsolved! See

http://theponderingsofvickrum.blogspot.com/2006_05_01_theponderingsofvickrum_archive.html

if you wish to refresh your memory of this event.
Anyway on to the new mystery...The Mystery of the Disappearing Loo Roll Holder! Dramatic drum roll ...It happened the night of the bad taste party:


The party ended around 1am and those staying at 3 Cosmeston St. got ready for bed which of course involves going into the bathroom. So imagine our surprise when we discover that our loo roll holder (just to clarify not the piece that's attached to the wall but the bit that goes inside the loo roll) had disappeared. However, we didn't think much of it as we presumed it would be somewhere in the bathroom and we could find it at a time that wasn't 2am! However, upon searching for it over the next few days (we take a while to get round to this sort of thing) it became clear that our loo roll holder is no longer in the bathroom. So there are a number of possible explanations for this:

1. Dayo has stolen it - why accuse Dayo you may ask, but he has already been known to take things from our house (as Nimo the fish would testify if it wasn't a stuffed toy)
2. It has been flushed down the toilet - this would of course involve the metal becoming bendy to fit round the U-bend but it could happen
3. It disapperated
4. Someone else has stolen it - using the party as a cover a toilet roll holder thief took the opportunity to add to their collection, with the added advantage of already being in disguise this is a real possibility
5. We have been imagining the presence of our toilet roll holder for over a year
6. It morphed into the toothbrush that has now taken its place (please note this toothbrush is now redundant from its original purpose)

If you know anything about this incident please report it to the incident room (the lounge at 3 Cosmeston St.) as soon as possible.

London and Goats!

An update on Malawi team exploits:

I can now confirm that the craziness in Pembrokeshire was definitly not down to the soup as a similar phenomenon occured whilst in London where there was no soup in sight.

There was some more craziness:



A lot of hanging about:





More random nap taking:



Even the imposter was not immune:



So to conclude the Malawi team seem to suffer from an unknown syndrome that means that when they are put together they go a bit strange, and even infect others, but its all good!

And now on to the saga of the goat!

I can sense your excitement.

It started a few weeks ago when we planned the Malawi night and decided to cook a Malawian meal which of course wouldn't be complete without some goat meat. So now we faced the problem: where in Cardiff can you buy goat? Sam, Pete and I tried numerous butchers on City Road to no avail. But then Sam was given the information that Global Foods on Penarth Road sell goat - hurah!

You may think the saga will end here but you are deceived! We now have the problem: where on Penarth Road is Global Foods? Pete and I drove (well I drove he sat in the car) up and down Penarth Road, which is quite long, 3 times to no avail but then found another random butchers that sold goat! - hurah!
Or not as they didn't understand us as we askd for enough goat to feed 50 people their reply - "you want chicken?" hmmm no! We eventually managed to communicate our order but then found that it would cost £45 so decided not to buy it but to try one last time to find Global Foods. We headed back onto Panarth Road and were about to give up hope of ever finding the right shop when we looked up and found that we were behind a van from...you've guessed it Global Foods - hurah!
So we followed it all the way to the shop. Which was actually a bit off Penarth Road and only had a sign saying 'al foods' as the Glob had fallen off. We then had a similar difficulty in communication but eventually managed to buy 7kg of diced goat complete with bones, kidneys and meat for just £22! - Hurah!

The next chapter of the goat saga involves cooking the goat. New problem: how do you cook 7kg of goat in a way that will definitely not lead to any food poisoning. Answer phone my mum! Her suggestion slow cook it in a juice of some sort for hours. So the solution was: get 7 pots, 11 tins of chopped tomatoes, 10 onions, 7kg of goat, and 6 pints of gravy put them all together and cook for 6 hours. However, that was not the last problem as a cooker sitter was needed to prevent any boiling over and gas going out disasters befalling 3 Cosmeston Street so Hannah came to the rescue! - hurah!

One further problem was encountered: how to transport 7 hot pots of goat stew to Gabalfa Baptist Church. The solution cover back seat of the car with a duvet, bin bags and towels, place pots on top and drive at 15mph! And there the saga ended as at the Malawi night it was devoured by CU members and others using their fingers to eat...and even if I do say so myself it was rather good! - Hurah!

The End!