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what do you get when you combine a country that has a decisive lack of tins of pumpkin puree and two whole pumpkins left over from halloween?

bethany and ben in the kitchen becoming all domestic-like and making their own puree from scratch.

(btw, its surprisingly easy. we're following these steps. bonus: you get to stab the pumpkins 10 or so times with a very large knife.)

now we we have enough pumpkin to make these again!

and these,
and this,
and this,
and maybe, just maybe, some of these.

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london as seen from a trafalger square lion at 2:30 in the morning

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when I saw on the schedule of the semester that we had a reading week in early november, I was like sweet! no classes! I can run errands and clean the flat and do all the non-school stuff I've been putting off!

well, turns out, I've barely had time for the reading.

that flat remains un-scrubbed.

but it's the though that counts, right?

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just got back from a DPU weekend workshop in Windsor.
not the castle itself, unfortunately, but in a royal lodge in the park.

pretty neat.
(and more on that in a future post)

this workshop fell one halloween so, naturally, we threw a halloween party.
the decision was a bit last minute and we were encouraged to come in a costume that reflected our country of origin.

I think I hit it spot on.

I was a new england patriot.

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