The October Issue

Got the latest ELLE delivered to my door today. Its the special 25th anniversary issue and its massive. Definately thicker than usual. AND it came with a style for less supplement magazine which I do love seen as though I can't afford practically anything that usually graces their glossy pages. Have only flicked through but it looks pretty damn good.

GUESS WHATTTTT? It's only bloody September tomorrow! Already. Summer has gone. Autumn is arriving. And as much as I hate to admit it, my A/W wardrobe is already planned. Im currently obsessed with silk blouses/shirts a la Chloe. Also, I'm lusting after an aviator jacket similar to those seen on the Burberry catwalk. Which A/W trends are you guys investing in? x



Photos from elleuk.com

Damn

I'm not too happy right now. Firstly, about to start the last full week of the holidays and they flew over way too quick. Secondly, summer didn't even occur, clouds and rain did, but hardly any sun. I was hoping for a British tan but nooo. Thirdly, I have loads of work left to do because I left it all till last minute. Again. And Finally, I've just been told I have to go to church TWICE next weekend to do a talk in front of everyone about Peru!! I hate speaking in front of loads of people. Particularly when I don't even know any of them. Today hasn't particularly been a good day. But hey ho. On the good side though, I have two shopping trips planned for this week, it's a bank holiday weekend, AND G-ma just gave me a tenner which means I can probably afford to buy at least one thing at the Metro!

Speaking of Peru, I thought I'd share a few more photos as I put hardly any on here.




Note: Excuse the green t-shirts in these photos. We pretty much had to wear them every day so we could be spotted easily. Not very fashionable or flattering but I secretly grew to like them ha.

Photo 1: Working with the children. Although I hate my gormless smile in this photo, it shows how they kinda swarmed round us as we were probably the only pale english people they had ever seen. They were fascinated with us and the little presents we brought them.

Photo 2: Our little group that I hung around with in Peru. The trip meant I got friendlier with alot of people I wouldn't usually have mixed with in Sixth Form, which I'm pleased about.

Photo 3: On the first day at the school we pretty much signed anything they stuck in front of us. For some reason, they wanted our autographs. It was so weird!

Photo 4: Emily, Fran and Me after climbing to the top of the mountain. Oh and the mucky tops - we'd been carrying rocks around. x

FILM FEST

Saturday night TV means dodgy pointless game shows, (101 ways to leave a game show - utter shite) reality TV and talent competitions. The only thing that usually tempts me is CSI and with possibly every episode already watched I resorted to and got bored by X factor. It was pretty crap last week and this week kinda followed suit. I usually watch it but this year its slightly boring me. So, as TV’s offerings weren’t exactly exciting me anyway, we took a trip to good old blockbuster last night (well Dad did). He brought back cemetery junction which was my request, Invictus, and Shutter Island. Have already watched 2 out of the 3 HA!



Cemetery Junction - Directed by Ricky Gervais and his lanky mate Stephen Merchant? I think. Its described as a coming of age film. Don't really know what that entails. But I enjoyed it, particularly because it is set in the 70's and the soundtrack is great, not at all because 2 of the 3 main characters are fittttt! It's basically, in a sentence, about 3 lads who grow up in a crappy town which people never get out of, but they want to travel and basically make something of their lives rather than work in factories like their fathers did. Their isn't really much of a plot until about 1 hour in but its one of those films where when youve finished watching it, it makes you feel all happy. Man I love those films. Oh and its pretty funny too! x

Nothing exciting really

This week has been very boring. Although I am pleased to say that ALL my friends are finally back in the country! YEYY! I hated it when they were away, such a snoozefest. Caught up with Megan the other day for a chat. You know same old, same old. Today I played tennis (yes really) with Sarah. We weren't actually too bad until a young group of boys decided they would stand and watch us and comment on our skills. "Man, there even better than us!" Then we started to fail miserably. So that is all. Boring post. :)

Outfit Post

Here's an outfit from a few days ago when I went to Durham.



Floral shirt - Topshop
Leggings - H&M
T shirt - H&M
Tan belt - Primark

Also, to the GCSE resulters. If you did well, amazinggg! Congrats! If you didn't, commiserations but tbh they don't mean absolutely anything. After doing my AS levels, (which btw are ten times harder), GCSE's aren't even mentioned any more.

Just watching the start of Ultimate BB and OMG! cannot believe they've put both Preston AND Chantelle! haha this should be funny.

Up In The Clouds

Castle Calling was... interesting. We got to Richmond at about 12 and went to get our wristbands. Bands didn't start for another hour but it was really hot so we just sat around for a bit. After about half an hour though, the 'heavens opened' and we pretty much spent the rest of the day either under umbrellas or taking refuge from the pouring rain in one of Richmond's many tea rooms. My favourites of the bands that we did catch were Only Animals from Richmond and Sound of Guns from Liverpool.

When 8.30 eventually came, (yes the day did slightly drag) and the rain had eventually ceased, Darwin Deez were amazing. Even though I only knew a few songs, their set was really good. They also do dances between every song which are hilarious. Think Beyonce in Single Ladies (they even did their own version of it) but with cooler tunes. I think there's a few vids on YouTube. I'd definitely recommend going to see them. Certainly made it more of a show, rather than just a regular 'gig'. Futureheads were also good. I've only recently bought their newest album but I pretty much like all the tracks, which is unusual for me. They played most new tracks as well as a few of the older favourites such as Beginning of the Twist, Skip to the End and the anthemic Hounds of Love.
Overall, it was a cute little festival. I liked how even when the headliners were on, the crowd was still small, making it feel quite intimate. Ended up only being a few rows from the stage as you can tell from the photo. x

Hmmm

Got my results. Psychology - A, Textiles - B, Maths - D, Core - D, History - E. Im obviously happy with the first two. Core and Maths I don't care about; core because it doesn't matter or mean anything and Maths because I HATEEE it and will probably be dropping it now. History I'm disappointed about but I was kinda expecting it as the exam was awful. Worst exam I ever sat. Nearly walked out of it. But I'll resit History and hopefully get a B. Thats what I want. Tbh though, they're only AS levels so don't matter as much and to get onto the foundation diploma I wanna do I only need ONE A level and can use the foundation diploma to get into uni.

On a brighter note, Tomorrow I'm off to Castle Calling in Richmond. Hopefully it'll be nice-ish weather and they'll be some good unknown bands on. Darwin Deez and The Futureheads too! Should be fun. x