PROMPTED by the lack of flushing power our toilet has, I've been thinking this week about stubborn poo. If you are quite into green issues, then its fine to put bricks in your toilet to save water when you water. But what about the times when you lay a Buoyant Betty, a Heavy Harry, or even a Sploshy Simon? The toilet just isn't designed to flush these entities away with the reduced water capacity a brick provides, and you just end up flushing the toilet 3 or 4 times to get rid of it. Not to mention the extra trees you waste on all the paper you put in to "help it down"!
  WEEK 6, or week 7 possibly by the time you are reading this. I can't believe how quickly the time is going by! Rawson 3 is aiming to be the first kitchen to celebrate Christmas, and we will have our decorations up by 1st November - according to Amy. I wasn't sure where to get a Christmas tree from, and was thinking about it as I looked out my window…and then I suddenly saw the solution to my problems! Do you reckon anyone will notice if we cut off the top of that big Christmas tree on the grass on the way up to Wates House?!
  I do in fact have the coolest parents in the world. My mum couldn't find me a birthday cake, so she bought me a Christmas cake and put flowers on to cover the holly. She then put a candle in, and just incase I didn't have anything to light the candle with, she even included a box of matches!
  THIS week we got a new toaster, which is a shame, as now I don't have any burnt toast to pin to my wall! I'll have to find something else to burn and put on my wall!

  FROM the moment I found out I was be living in Battersea Rawson this year, I've noticed a rather bizarre occurrence which I call the "Rawson Phenomenon" - only a tiny number of people at Surrey have ever heard of our house. I've lost count of the number of times people have replied "Battersea Dawson?" when told where I live, and even the warden forgot our house during his talk at our first Senior Resident meeting!
  SO, I hear you ask, where is Rawson? Well, it's situated opposite the library and launderette between Wells (the newly refurbished one) and Pickard - hence it's the only house in Battersea Court without a fire escape (are they trying to tell us something by putting us here?). The view from my bedroom window encompasses the court bike sheds, reception and the dustbins - could one ask for anything more?!
  A familiar concept to all those living on campus is, of course, the obligatory 7am Fire Alarm Test. Ours occurred last Tuesday, but due to being a heavy sleeper, I only woke up a good ten minutes after it had started. I made my way to Court Reception, and was greeted by the sight of over 50 dressing-gown clad Rawson-ers huddling in the TV lounge.
  AFTER trying in vain to convince the warden that I really had slept through it, I was given a personal talk by the fire safety guy and then had to put up with at least ten "so it was you who slept through it!" type comments from my housemates. I thought that was the last I would hear of it, until Thursday when I received a warning letter from the warden in my pigeon hole, informing me that he would be "talking to my senior resident about this occurrence" - quite comic, when you realise that my senior resident is, in fact, me!!