2015: A Year in Books

Hello and welcome to the first blog post of 2016. I could bang on for a paragraph about how this year I'm going to blog more frequently and stick to a regular upload schedule, but since when have I ever manged to do that for more than a couple of weeks at a time? Never. Exactly. Lets just assume that 2016 will be just as shambolic as previous years and that way neither of us can be disappointed when I go AWOL for a couple of months. 

Right, that's that covered. On with the post.

HOMESICK

I am homesick.

I lie in curled up in blankets on the couch that I bought myself, the first piece of furniture that can truly be called mine. I am snuggled up in the warmth and safety of this little flat that is all mine, with its crooked walls and slopping eves, its peculiarly shaped windows and doors that don’t quite fit. It is perfectly imperfect. It is mine. During the day, this building shakes from the crashing and hammering of the workmen below, but now in the darkness, it is still. Outside the rain pounds down, hammering against the fragile windows, demanding to be let in. It thunders down upon the roof, drowning out the sound of the cars driving along the street below. The wind howls down the chimney coughing little flurries of soot onto the hearth. Despite this onslaught the little flat prevails and I wriggle further down into the blankets and listen to the oddly reassuring cacophony of weather.

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We've all been there. We've all day one of those days, heck we've all had one of those weeks! Days where everything has gone wrong. You're getting endless emails and phone calls from the entire world and his wife, all the trains are delayed, and there just don't seem to be enough hours in the day to get everything done. Oh yeah, and your electric has gone off. 

Just So 2015

It's been nearly two weeks since I returned from volunteering at the wonderful madness that was Just So 2015 and I've still not got used to being back in the real world. The reality of commuter trains, smart clothes and household bills just doesn't quite have the same appeal as living in a field, dressing up as a mad fortune teller, and dancing to pirate music...not to mention the wonders of the David Attenborough song (it has now become my life's mission to make everyone on planet earth aware of this song).

A MONTH WITHOUT TV AND INTERNET

I have had no internet or TV for over a month. The reason for this is pretty straightforward, I moved house and then had problem after problem getting my broadband set up. 

GRADUATION

"Daddy my Daddy"

Dear Daddy,

ADULTHOOD IS COMING

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There is no escaping the fact that I have officially become...

AN ADULT

April & May Snapshots

 Hello Beautiful People!

It's snapshots time again. Due to my wee break from the blogging world, this post is an amalgamation of April and May, two very lovely and two very stressful months! 

But onward with the photos!

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So its been a while...

Soooo I haven't blogged for over a month...

March Snapshots

 Hello Beautiful People,

Well March was a little bit of a whirlwind!

My dissertation was due in at the end of the month and because I'm a typical student I obviously left it until the minute. I had an interview selection application day thingy for a artist training scheme that somehow I actually managed to get accepted on too! And on top of that a quick dash back home for 21st birthdays and Mother's Day.

All in all a little bit manic.

 I don't think I've ever slept so little and eaten so much crap in one month.

Dear Maman

Hello Beautiful People,

Yesterday was Mother's Day and I know everyone says their mum is the best mum in the world, but you're all wrong because my mum is actually the best mum in the world so there!

I am an awful daughter however and don't tell her that near as often as I should, so I thought I'd better do something about that!

January and February Snapshots

Hello Beautiful People,

I know I say this every month, but where is the time going? I swear it was only Christmas a couple of weeks ago and now here we are well into March. My final year project is due in two weeks and jaysus why is time going so fast!?

Because I'm a sensible and well functioning adult, I've made the fantastic decision that instead of doing any of the mountains of work I have piling up around me, I am instead going to sit down and put together an massive snapshots post. I am so good at prioritizing, just pass me all the adulting points and be done with it already.

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Hello Beautiful People!

Rootlessness

Hello Beautiful People, 

Rootlessness: The lack of roots or ties to a particular place or community

December Snapshots

Hello Beautiful People,

Can we all take a moment to appreciate that fact that I have upload a post every week this month! Every flippin' week! The chances of this unusual spell of organisation and commitment lasting much longer are slim to none, so lets enjoy it while it lasts. 

By rights I should have posted this at the beginning of January but seeing as I didn't upload my November snapshots until the other week, its not surprising the December ones are a tad late. 

Anyway, onward and upwards! Maybe the January ones will be out on time (don't hold your breath though dears, its unlikely).

This Girl Can

Hello Beautiful People,

Something a little bit different for you this week, a proper motivational Monday!

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November Snapshots

Hello Beautiful People!

What's this, two posts in two weeks? Both on a Monday? Its almost like I've got a schedule! Never fear, its definitely not going to last.

I started putting this post together just after Christmas and even then it was going to be ridiculously late. Now we're solidly into Janurary and this post is nearly two months late, but what the heck!

Here are my November snapshots in all their glory. 

New Year, New Fear

Hello Beautiful People and a very happy (if slightly belated) New Year to you all!

I can’t quite work out how 2014 flashed by so fast, but here we are in 2015 and this wee blog has just celebrated its first birthday.

Last New Year I wrote a post called "Make 2014 the year you take some risks". If you haven’t had a look at it, go and have a wee gander at it now before you read this. The sentiments can be applied just as easily to 2015 as they did to 2014. Go on, give it a glance, off you trot, that’s the ticket.