{"id":1040,"date":"2014-01-11T11:20:18","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T11:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/studentblogs\/emma13\/?p=65"},"modified":"2017-02-20T11:28:06","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T11:28:06","slug":"christmas-holidays-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/2014\/01\/11\/christmas-holidays-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"

What award goes to the designers of door knockers?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A no bell prize!<\/i><\/p>\n

A cracking cracker joke there : )<\/p>\n

Since I am back in London tomorrow, here is a rather belated Christmas holidays blog. It is mostly just an excuse to include some photos (my blogs are usually so word-heavy!)<\/p>\n

\u00a0Like most people\u2019s Christmases it involved much seeing of relatives various, lots of food and, of course, raging about the new Jeeves and Wooster book by the evil Sebastian Faulks. The Physics department have been kind this year, so I got to watch my sister revising for her first set of Biology exams while I was free(eeeeeeee).<\/p>\n

To start, here is a bad picture of my best friends with my new cocktail shaker. The creative process of making cocktails was helped along by my parents mysteriously having poured whisky into a bottle marked dark rum.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"Compressed\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is my sister being very excited about riding on Grandad\u2019s new tractor.<\/p>\n

\"Compressed<\/a><\/p>\n

This is my brother dressed as Father Christmas.<\/p>\n

\"Compressed<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is a picture of our much fought-over Christmas cake in its final glory. Extra points if you can spot John Travolta-Gingerbread.<\/p>\n

\"compressed<\/a><\/p>\n

Poker on New Year\u2019s Eve.<\/p>\n

\"compressed<\/a><\/p>\n

Alex eating caviar in his Christmas basketball jersey. (Yey Houston Rockets yey)<\/p>\n

\"compressed<\/a><\/p>\n

In other news, we now have family plans to go skiing at Easter! Life ambition achieved!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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