How about a night in? Many supermarkets offer meal deals throughout the year. But, this Valentine’s Day, if you don’t fancy a night at a restaurant, you can often find a cheaper, less pressure-filled meal at your local shop. If you are single, fear not, you could share this meal with a friend, or even…
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The curse of the Christmas birthday
I am the unfortunate owner of a festive birthday. My special day sits in the first few days of January and is usually overcome by the rest of the country’s onset of the January blues. We’ve partied December away in the lead up to Christmas, consumed our body weight in food on the big day…
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Hygge recipes: Monkey bread, mulled wine & hot chocolate
Monkey Bread – a sticky, cinnamonny, pull away bread perfect for that chilly afternoon binge. You will need a pan that vaguely resembles a bundt tin (have a google – anything with a hole in the middle should do) although this is not a neat cake, so any medium sized, deep cake tin should do…
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Hygge: cosiness and warmth from Denmark
It’s a dark and stormy night.Winter is drawing in but, as a student, you are reluctant to turn on the heating. You light a couple of candles (having checked whether this is ok in your tenancy agreement first) and nestle into the copious amounts of blankets piled on your bed. Slipper socks and cable knit…
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Restaurant Review: Roots
Pottergate feels cosy, even from the outside, and it seemed only right to visit a cosy spot for some winter warmers after our investigations into hygge. After a long day of christmas shopping, all you want to do is cosy up in the candlelight for food that feeds the soul, especially as winter arrives. Roots…
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Concrete investigates the heritage of UEA’s campus
Sainsbury Centre The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts (known as the SCVA to UEA’s Art History and World Art Studies students) arrived on the UEA campus in 1978. Designed by the renowned architect, Norman Foster, you may well recognise some of the architectural features in this early example of his work from his various later…
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Defying gravity with Bryony Page
Over the Summer, Team GB triumphed once again at the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio. Bringing home a record number of medals from an overseas Olympic Games, the drive and spirit motivating the athletes was extremely clear to see. I was lucky enough to speak to Bryony Page, the first British trampoline gymnast to…
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How to succeed at university
The title of this piece might make me sound I’m that person who has it all together and is ready to spend the next 800 words telling you that I got there by pulling 12 hour stints in the library, minimum social life and a ban on Netflix. Well not quite. In fact, I am…
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Getting to know Norwich
Lydia Lockyer, Lillie Coles, Marty Ruczynska, Grace Fothergill and Melina Kouyialis give the inside scoop on getting to know Norwich Days Out As much as we all love whiling our weekends away in the S.U pub, sometimes it’s tempting to breach the campus boundaries and see what Norwich and the rest of Norfolk has to…
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