Brew Our Own Alcohol

We haven’t graduated just yet so we have a few brief weeks to cross off as much as we can on the Bucket List before the student life is truly whipped out from under our feet.

There were a few that we crossed off weeks ago but haven’t been able to post about due to exams, celebrations and most importantly, much deserved holidays!

So we successfully brewed our own alcohol, true DIY style, with some true DIY consequences.

Personally, being renowned for my concoctions of home-brewed vodka flavours, took the lead on this one coming up with the seemingly genius idea to create Percy Pig Vodka.

Percy Pigs, being mine, and almost every other sane person in the world’s weakness seemed like the best tantalising bet. We, of course, too did the conventional skittle vodka to ensure that no disaster struck.

Brewed about a month and a half in advance the liquors were ready to be sampled at the delight of my guests at my end of uni farewell BBQ, which Sarah obviously co-hosted!

All being overly fed and half-cut by time Sarah and I actually remembered about them, the only way to consume them was of course by shots and mutual sipping. The ‘sharing is caring’ motto was largely in place here.

I must say, despite being as always the skittle vodka was successful… Mr Percy Pig, however, was less delightful. Although it wasn’t that bad, it was sooo strong and awfully thick, almost like my favourite childhood medicine calpol! (it may be that we used Smirnoff vodka for the skittles and only had Asda basics vodka for Percys).

But we are students; we drink all sorts of rare mixtures, brews and blends, so needless to say it was consumed without complaints! We also found on later inspection that Percy Vodka wasn’t all that bad with lemonade!

Antics continued throughout the evening with a few emotions running high and my drunken farewell speech at the end of the evening! 

Literally the best friends we could ask for!
Will miss them all!

 

Spray Champagne After Our Final Exam

We decided that something needed to be done to celebrate our final exam at UWE. What better way to celebrate than with a cheeky bottle of champagne! Well.. Cava actually, I mean come on, we’re students after all…

We all know that morbid feeling you get walking into an exam, waiting in the ECC for your ‘Zone’ to be summoned, waiting for impending doom, but this time for us it was different. Though we had all these feelings as standard, we also had a slight twang of pain (act the fact we were leaving… not the normal pain of your hand about to fall off from over exertion in a 3 hours exam). We realised we’ll probably never sit an exam again, we were graduating. Oh Lord.

So having sat three hours regurgitating information about the Mafia and Gangster Capitalism in America, we wondered the ‘silent’ walk out of the building and found a little patch of grass to act like idiots and spray away.

It was an occasion to mark and I feel Sarah, Abbie and I did it in some form of style. I even rocked my UWE T-shirt I brought as part of the merchandise blog to represent!

Take a look for yourselves…

 

 

We filmed it too... I struggled a bit...

Cocktail Night in Clifton

Emma and I have been desperate to go out for a classy cocktail night in Clifton, as it hosts an array of swanky bars and is the part of Bristol that we both want to end up living in.

We started this night at the SU after a last minute decision for me not to drive back to oxford. I called Emma and suggested dinner and drinks at the SU to celebrate me handing in my dissertation (Emma was handing hers in the next morning). I had tempted Emma by telling her that the SU were having a cider festival that day, however much to our disappointment we soon found out that I had got the days mixed up.

As we were now looking forward to a few drinks and were disappointed by the a) lack of cider and b) lack of people, we decided to get a bus to Clifton and start on the cocktails.

SU selfie

Emma suggested one of her favourite cocktail bars called ‘Papajis’, which offer 2 4 1, and have a casual and friendly atmosphere. Judging by the selfies/snapchats that we took at the SU, we were well on our way to being drunk before we even headed into town. At Papajis we ordered two pornstar martinis and my ‘usual’- a mojito. And after drunkenly snapchatting my mum (yes my mum does have snapchat) we headed further into town to meet a few friends.

It seems that whenever we go out for a 'quiet one' on a Wednesday night, we end up staying out till four in the morning. This was no exception, after a few more bars we headed to our favourite on a Wednesday - OMG, where we ended up watching a drag show and being held hostage by a taxi man on the way home.

The snapchat we sent my Mum *facepalm*

In the morning, a sleepy drive over to St Matts at 10am occurred, as Emma had her dissertation binding appointment. After waiting for 15 minutes for the guy to turn up, we soon forgave him as he explained how hung-over he was, having spent the previous night at OMG too.

 Proud Moments: The point these three years have been building up to.

And oh, the sigh of relief!

Emma's dissertation!



Sarah's dissertation!