In my ranty blog of yesterday, I ended with a promise of a concert, scones and blowing up capacitors. Here goes:

Capacitors: For some reason best known to himself, Ashton turned up into college yesterday with a ‘Snappy Snaps’ bag with 11 used disposable cameras in it, from which he was extracting the capacitors. In order to get the capacitors out, however, he first had to discharge them; apparently the shock could cause some serious damage. With few further questions, Evgeniy and Jason took to helping him. The videos say it all.

Ev really reminds me of a lost little puppy in this last one. Physics fun at its best.

Concert: Last night was ICSO‘s winter concert, advertised by a lovely centrefold in Felix.

Eight members of ICSO making a desperate plea for audience. It worked - the Hall was packed!

They played Elgar’s Cockaigne, the Hoffmeister Viola Concerto and Rachmaninoff’s Second Symphony. The Rach was my favourite piece; the audience obviously thought so too, my hands were pretty sore at the end of clapping! Next concert this term will be Medics Choir, which is…tonight! If you want to go along, it’s in St Stephens Church at 8…

ICSO taking a final bow.

Scones: I never got to show everyone my wonderful scone ‘skillz’ - so this morning I made some. I then got side-tracked and made meringues as well.

Best breakfast ever.

There is a video to follow, I just have to sort out the audio cos you can’t hear what I’m saying. I might just subtitle it, cos the other option is making another video (or learning how to edit sound…naaaah). It took half an hour and we had a wonderful fresh cooked breakfast.

The meringues took a long time, because that’s just how it goes! Recipe to follow.

If anyone ever actually tries out my recipes, please let me know, cos then I’ll know I’m not just doing it for my own sake!

Had a very grumpy day today – if you’ve been following me on Twitter you may have noticed.

Stirring lumps out of lumpy white sauce.

I woke up in a bit of a mood, came into college, didn’t get served a bacon BAP in the library cafe (despite the fact that they were clearly ready…they needed ‘five minutes’ before they could be served, by which time I would be in a lecture. What were they doing, comtemplating death by consumption??) then got messed around with lectures when the projectors wouldn’t work etc.

I decided I needed some really good food, and decided that my dairy intolerance could go out the window, to do a recipe I discovered in first year; Tom’s gran had kindly provided us with some Colman’s white sauce, and I was wondering what to do with it when I read the back of it – I decided to try the recipe and it was awesome.

OK I'll admit, it looks rubbish. It isn't! I just overdosed on soya milk. I had to eat it with a spoon.

Basically, it’s chicken wrapped in bacon with cheese spread under the bacon, baked in white sauce. I serve it with rice and peas that have been cooked together (just chuck it all in the pan for 15 minutes), and today I decided I wanted more veg so I roasted some carrots and gave myself some spinach (Tom won’t eat it). I was also going to make scones, but couldn’t as I ran out of time. I’ll do that later.

Now I’m sitting in my room currently listening to some pretty heavy music (see Cosmo Jarvis below) and trying to beat the mood out of me. Later, I’m going to watch Life with David Attenborough (I’m really pleased to discover that Chris likes him too. Yay!)

Anyone who has been paying attention to the posters around London will have noticed some of the newer ones that have appeared.

www.cosmojarvis.com (I'm not responsible for any of the content on this website)

These all feature Cosmo Jarvis, and appropriately the question ‘Whose Problem is Cosmo Jarvis?’. I’m going to get the words ‘Cosmo Jarvis’ into this paragraph one more time (that’s what I think of you English grammar rules) and say I bet you don’t know who Cosmo Jarvis even is?

He’s a guy who went to my school. ‘Why does he have posters up then?’, I hear you ask. Well because he’s an awesome musician. The first time I saw one of these posters I got rather excited and squawked – for your listening pleasure, this was recorded on the video of me walking to college, which will be added in due course – because he is the Real Thing.

I’ve watched this guy from Year 7 to Year 12, progress from little kid with guitar to big guy with guitar, and amazing musicality. He isn’t one of these people who has managed to make a name for themselves by doing something stupid or exciting the nation on the X-Factor. It’s been hard work all the way.

Following my rediscovery of his music in London, I borrowed his album from my bro (don’t worry Cosmo, I then bought it…) and am now obsessed with it. To prove it’s not just me who thinks he’s good, the college paper Felix published a review of him recently.

The article in Felix.

I really recommend checking him out, though please note that Imperial College has nothing to do with his choice of lyrics, or the content of his website (for legal reasons I probably have to say that…if that doesn’t intrigue you, nothing will. See heavy above.)

www.cosmojarvis.com

www.myspace.com/COSMOJARVIS