purple skies

I went for a meal with my Mum and Step Dad yesterday, we walked along down by the river and the quay and stopped at the waterfront for the best pizza ever. Thought I'd take a few quick snaps but my camera ran out of battery so the last three were taken on my phone, the quality isn't great but oh well.

i love the purpley colour of the sky in this picture, it's like it's wurring along to its final destination.

all of those cellars have the most adorable shops in. there are woodwork shops, where they do the most beautiful mirrors and tables and such, and there are trinkety shops that do all sorts of beautiful things, there's a coffee shop which is in the most perfect location and such other wonderful treats. that's my Step Dad and my Mum walking along.

this is the boat yard, i love how run down the building is, it fits with all the run down boats that they are busy repairing in there.

when the sun shines on water its truly beautiful, it emphasises the waters movement and the sun almost flickers around on the surface.

nice qualities

i think it is nice to be recognised for what you are, instead of what you are not.

we are forever looking at people and saying;
they are dishonest, or, they don't work hard, or, they aren't very nice

and by concentrating so hard on the bad things, we let the good things pass us by. like the stranger that smiles, or the boy that helps an old lady with her shopping.

For example, a stranger said 'bless you' to me the other day when I sneezed while I was walking down the street, and I didn't realise how nice that was, I was too fixated on the people shouting at each other across the road. I'm going to start looking for the nice things and ignoring the bad.

Click'edy Click

You know what its like, you go on one blog, then there's a link to another, then another, well i'm now extremely happy that i click on a crazy amount of these links every day, because I found this blog, by a designer, illustrator and collector, Tabitha Emma - here.
She has two flickr accounts too, here's the arty one and here's the photography one.

'how can I forget all the letters you wrote'
typrewriter - 'i still care'

'i don't know you anymore'
arm - 'you have changed'

I love the concentration on tea too.

never one hundred percent in the room

i keep looking at music videos on youtube.
i like this one.
but then i never can tell if its the song im falling for or the video. in this case i think it's mainly the song. but the video is nice. 

a happy flower

today i didn't have any college lessons, so i went into town and met my friend Thea. we sat in rougemont for a bit and then went to an english revision class ... poetry overload!

this robin came really really close to us and posed for a photo

these are my new sandels. the sky looks a slight purpley colour, it looks like it's wurring around the sun.

the daisies have come out. they are very happy flowers.

this is Thea. she makes me happy.

i like this song very much.

an unexpected moment

we had an unexpected photo-shoot today in our journalism lecture, so here we are, in our everyday clothing, trying to capture something, anything.

the smiles and posing faces make me smile. mainly because i know that the people behind the camera were causing the laughter, they are my friends, and people i am going to miss spending so much time with next year when our journalism course is over.

sunshine and bike rides

For once it's actually nice weather in England, so I have been making the most of it :)

first amber and myself went on a bike ride, to turf locks, a pretty place a few miles away from my house, we had a little tub of strawberries and cream ice cream and went on our way

we then got fed up of cycling, (it turns out bike seats aren't the most comfortable) so walked down by the river and met our friend Jodi, we then went to imperial to enjoy the last of the sunshine in the beer garden

then we ran to the train station, and only just got on the train to Makayla's house for a barbecue... well the barbecue never really happened ... so just a gathering (:

on our way home we came across a hedgehog

mix match

i don't know where, confused about how as well

just know these things will never change for us at all 

would you lie with me and just forget the world?

how do we end up here. is out life mapped out before it's even begun? are there lots of different versions of us that have made different decisions? do the decisions we make have an impact on anyone other than us? are the smallest seemingly insignificant decisions really the ones that impact on our lives the most?

oh tell me now where was my fault
in loving you with all my heart?

i thought i was a good friend, i tried my best, and you still continue not to care

i think i have decided... i'm going to travel around europe for my gap year, and then do an english degree at university, then top it up with one in journalism, just not sure which university yet, hopefully one in london somewhere

the river

the old paper mill. it's very beautiful but i wish they would do something with it, cut back all the hedges and make it stable so they can take down the iron fence around it and we can go and explore it properly.

i love how rivers go from such a calm and tranquil state to a busy, rushing, exhausting one if you just peer around a tree.

went for a walk with my mum today. just down and round by the river, it's very pretty. it was nice to talk about things too.

i have another driving lesson tomorrow :) yay. hopefully i'll get the hang of it and i'll be driving my purple beetle in no time. drama exam on friday... wish me luck

you can cage my body but you can't lock up my soul

Fenced In

I've been visiting my Dad for the past few days, and it's been lovely. He lives in a quaint little village which when I'm at home I often complain is boring, but the truth is I love it. I love everyone knowing your name, everyone saying hello as the walk past, I love the smell of the countryside, I love the village pub, and all the people there, I love walking through the fields and hearing the long grass swishing beneath your feet, I love how the air feels cleaner and the grass feels greener, I love how the sunshine looks there, it looks brighter, I love it.

So the point of all the deceleration of my love for the country is that when I was sat at the nearest train station, on the stony tarmac, I looked at the fields beyond and felt fenced in. I looked at the sun glittering through the trees and had the sudden urge to run across the tracks, jump over the fence and climb a tree, or at least get a bit muddy. 

I am going to go walking more often. 

Sorry the pictures are crap,

 I have a rubbish point and shoot 

camera thats like 2 mega 

pixels.

barbecuing in the rain

had a lovely gathering with some friends last night, i'm sure some hideous pictures will appear soon enough which, without a doubt, i will post on here. it was to celebrate my seventeenth birthday, being as it's may i thought the sun would shine, like it is today, but no suck luck, it rained. however, we persevered and still had a great night, outside, barbecuing in the rain. i'm going to pack for my dads now because my train leaves at 4:23 and i have to make it to the station.


i also just had a job interview for desigual, in house of fraser, it went quite well i think, considering my hungover state, fingers crossed - the clothes there are beauties. check them here.

birthday morning

I received this letter a few days ago and got really excited because I knew it was from my friend Marie who moved to New Zealand a few months ago, so I went to rip it open and saw the annoying sign on the back of the envelope! She knows me too well! Anyway the day has finally come and I was so so happy to get a birthday card from her along with this extra special note :)

my mum also bought me some benefit mascara! which i have had before and i would recommend it to anyone, it's fantastic! she also got me some euphoria perfume, calvin klein yummy yumm, some lindt chocolates, double yummy yumm a facial and back massage, triple yummy yumm. as well as some driving lessons, watch out guys my first ones at 4:15 today.. stay off the roads!

one of my favourites though has to be this beautiful bag, well not the bad itself but more it's contents, it's from one of my best friends Sam whom i have known for years, i feel like we have helped eachother grow up and we would not be the same people we are today if it weren't for the other. but it contained a beautiful bead for my trollbead bracelet which i went and picked out with him yesterday

it looks like this

apple

good times in the apple store. if i had an mac i would spend forever pulling funny faces and never get anything done.

friendship

one of my new dresses that i got in the sale yesterday.

and a lovely necklace that my friend meggie bought me for christmas.

you can't ignore your problems

you have to face up to them, even if it means fighting for a bit, you need to face the fate you have made for yourself

if you ignore your problems they won't go away. but, if you ignore you're friends, they might disappear. 

Africa

I have never seen such a beautiful sky.

Photographs from my recent trip to Africa. 

My current assignment in Journalism is Photojournalism and today we had to stand up and say a bit about a) a photo we like of ourselves and b) a photo we have taken that we're proud of. I found it difficult to choose between a lot of these lovely photographs.

It was the most amazing trip of my life, it was so wonderful I can barely express it. There were some moments where I could have cried because it was so magical, some where my heart was in my mouth because I was metres away from lions eating, some where I couldn't contain my excitement and oh, so many where I laughed so much my face ached. I will remember this trip forever and I would advise anyone to do it before they die.