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English People Are RUDE!

Posted on Monday, 3 February 2014

I know, I know, there is a stereotype that English people are polite and humble. Well, let me tell you the more time passes, the more that stereotype feels more like a laughable myth,

In the past week I have faced :-

a) A Megabus driver swearing angrily in my boyfriend's face when he told him the previous Megabus driver and coach had failed to turn up. My boyfriend had been standing for an hour and a quarter in the cold and rain at this point and was very calm when addressing the angry coach driver.

b) When leaving the turnstiles at Euston, I walked straight ahead with the direction of the traffic (people traffic I mean). A girl from left cut across the way you were meant to walk to go on the far right. She bumped her bag across my feet and I said "oh I am so sorry, I am so so sorry" (Yes I know, why did I say sorry? My natural reflex?). She turned and gave me the filthiest look and continued to walk. I felt really badly hurt by this but my boyfriend was having none of it "Actually it was your f*cking fault!" he yelled after her. He isn't usually confrontational but apparently if someone is going to throw me a dirty look when it is their fault he is going to kick up a fuss. There were continued angry words until she had disappeared. I know that you shouldn't react to rude people but my boyfriend and I are both coming to the end of our tethers with the UK population at the moment.

c) I opened the door for someone on the way to the University library. He gave me a look up and down and said "Cheers B*tch." I'm not going to lie, my eyes filled with tears at this statement. I am a woos but I just felt so humiliated and i don't even know why.

d) During a seminar I told the lecturer the book he recommended wasn't in the library - "Well, well, we have a right little know it all at the front of the class, don't we?" I think I felt similar to the way Hermione did when Snape attacked her for trying to answer questions. I am also the only one who responds to discussion in this lecturer's class. I will not be doing that again in a hurry...say goodbye to the only person who bothers to do the work (i'll still do the work but just not speak).

e) When I went to post a parcel this morning at the Post Office, the guy looked at the parcel I gave him and paused. I had put two stamps on it already and just needed a few more and for it to be sent as a parcel (it wouldn't be allowed in a post box). "Did you find these stamps just about anywhere or did you buy them?'. "I bought them and stuck them on." Pause. "Right well I don't believe you so you are going to have to use a whole new set of stamps which I will stick over the top" and then he charged me. Not only had I wasted some stamps on the parcel but I had to pay for the privilege to do so!

So...basically...sadly....I have to inform you that English people and their manners are slowly fading away. It's unfortunate and quite demoralising but I hope some opposite change comes swiftly around soon :( I want fellow mannered English people back please! x

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Ok!

Posted on Sunday, 19 January 2014

Hello! I am so sorry! BUSY BUSY BUSY few weeks. I have been studying a lot and been panicking about just how much work I have to do. However, I have sorted out a timetable for myself and decided I may be swamped by work but I have just stay positive. And ontop of it. If I complete the work I will feel better. So I have bought a stash of pro plus so I don't get that 2o'clock "I REALLY WANT A NAP I CAN'T KEEP MY EYES OPEN AND READ" look anymore. Always disrupts my day.

I am also embarking a new YouTube venture. I am going to Vlog :D. Yes you heard me VLOG. I am scared but I thought, hey I might as well just go for it. I am also going to do a New Years Challenge for myself to keep me focused in almost all aspects of my life so that I can work, work, work till June :D. I am doing a blog about fad celebrity diets. I am going to try them all out. For fun. And document which ones actually work...does eating baby food for two weeks make me lose weight? Does the cabbage soup diet make me double over in pain but lose 10lbs in a week? It'll be fun. I am really excited. I tried a bit last week but this weekend was my first 'night out' of my final year so :D decided to relax. I'll provide a link for that blog when I set it up.

Anyway I will leave with you this. My parents cleaned out the garage this weekend and found A LOT of old baby pictures. A LOT. They brought back memories long gone. I hope they don't throw them away. Photos are so important. You only realise ten years later. So I shall provide you with a few below :D. These were there the few of my family and my Mum's parents on holiday together. Yeah these are the few were I have clothes on. Apparently once I was on holiday and near a pool...I stripped.

This is my Nana and me in Tenerife. I look like a scary child!!! 


My first few games of Pool. I loved playing this in Tenerife. I learnt in Tenerife. 

Look at the concentration on my face. How is Dad not laughing? 

These pictures show my Gangan and Dad racing rubber ducks in the pool. Think they had been drinking...
There were amazing fish below this pier. They could go crazy when you threw in bread. I loved it here.
I'm wearing pink shorts :)  

Laughing away.







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Happy New Year!

Posted on Sunday, 5 January 2014

My New Year was pretty quiet. But it was awesome. My family came over and so did Rachel and her family and it was a lovely night. I have this game i picked up from Andy's family and we played it for ages. Then we had a HUGEEEEE firework which was brilliant.

It was a bit of a pick n mix dinner with lots of different options. Slightly like a buffet but you wouldn't really get up and help yourself again. The twins painted my nails which was rather hilarious as it got all over my fingers but I didn't mind at all. They were so adorable and at what point asked if they could tidy my room!!! Dream children hey? Who think tidying rooms is a fun past time. They are so cute. And so well behaved yet cheeky at the same time. They always come in such beautiful dresses.

It was so lovely to be with Rachel too. She is such a sweetie and has been such a permanent good friend to me over the years! We have known each other since we were SIX! We are so old now!






My outfit :D 


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RIP Lola x

Posted on Monday, 30 December 2013


This is my lovely friend Rachel. In last year, her family took in two rescue dogs. Kea and then Lola. They were never meant to get Lola (the lovely Labrador) but their dog trainer told them of a poorly treated and unwanted dog he was training and they offered to take him from the family. The family happily gave her up. She was insecure and extremely needy. She also was rather nervy. This was after having being abandoned and neglected by her previous family.

Rachel's family took her in and looked after her. They had just got used to have one BIG dog in the house and now they had to make room for two. Kea, the mix breed doggy sitting up, took Lola in under her wing too and they became firm friends. Lola was often more naughty than Kea but she became so good natured. She would literally jump up and sit on people's laps and she became more independent and confident. She was a lovely dog.

Yesterday, whilst playing in a field she got hit by a car. She had only spent six months of her life with Rachel and her family and i know those six months were the best. I am so glad she got to experience such a happy life before she passed away :(.

I never usually comment on or announce deaths, not on facebook or twitter or anything, but I felt I should mention this just because Rachel is such a close friend's of mine and to emphasise the importance of a) dogs in the family and b) to encourage people to take in rescue dogs. I know technically Lola wasn't from a rescue home but I think she would have soon ended up in one if Rachel's family hadn't rescued her. She was, technically, a rescue dog and even though she passed away, she passed away at the happiest point in her life. I will miss her lots. x

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Nivea Cellulite Review

Posted on Saturday, 28 December 2013


Nivea Cellulite Gel and Moisturiser

Having gained some (*cough* a lot *cough) of weight during my time in America, I started losing weight seriously when I returned to University in September 2013. Due to some the yo-yo dieting over the year, my skin was beginning to reject what I had done to it. It became wrinkly.....and weirdly saggy...and then it hit me. 

Oh my gosh, I had cellulite. The thing I thought was only present on celebrities and were bits of skins awfully circled by crude magazine editors who are jealous of the celebrities hot bikini bodies. Those lined parts on the backs of people's legs that I didn't actually understand and I thought was only present on old people. And I mean old. I am not old! Am I?! Maybe I am! PANIC. 

So this panic and sudden desire to anti-age myself made me impulse buy. I bought the two creams pictured above. I bought a brand in which I trusted and I read the instructions carefully. The rules were simple. You were meant to rub them into the parts of your body containing cellulite for two weeks and there would be an obvious difference.

I was totally sucked in. I thought it would definitely work. Nivea stuff usually works. Nivea is a good company. Nivea is the foundation for all other companies (most beauty companies actually list Nivea as an ingredient in their products!) 

I enjoyed putting it on. I have never put on moisturiser on after showering, or any other creams for that matter - I am not a big girly-girly - so it was slightly strange for me to get used to. I found it a bit odd as I didn't know whether you're meant to hop around until you feel dry or put clothes on afterwards. Did I hair dryer myself afterwards so that I could avoid that sticky feeling when I got back into my clothing? It reminded me of when I was little and Mum would pin me to the floor to make me wear suncream on holiday. I'd refuse to put clothes on for at least half an hour because I believed my clothes would stick to me. I would run around flapping my arms. However, this is less cute when you're a 21 year old who has places to go, things to do, and is in a freezing cold Student apartment rather than a nice warm tropical country. Furthermore, is quite horrified by the sight of her own body and therefore, consequently, wants to hide it from the walls, let alone the mirrors, the moment she gets out of the shower. 

I opted for loose pjamas as I was scared I'd get cream all over my clothes and it felt comfortable to get into them rather than more constrictive clothing. 

At first I believed the creams were working. 

They weren't. When I finally looked in a different mirror to my usual one I realised that it hadn't worked. None of it. Once I stepped away from my usual mirror I realised that the lines were still all there and it was simply my brain projecting onto the previous mirror that the cream had worked. I did it for three weeks, until both bottles ran out and I saw no difference. You are meant to see the difference in two. I saw Nada. 

The only thing that was making my cellulite improve was that I was losing more weight and drinking more water. That was what was helping. NOT Niva Cellulite Cream. I won't be buying these expensive products again and I wouldn't advise anyone else to. I wouldn't advise anyone to buy any of the 'body firming', 'body toning', 'cellulite vanishing' products from any company because I do think it is a big scam based on the placebo effect. If you really want to lose cellulite I'd advise drinking a ton more water and exercising more. It is boring and a long process but it is the only way, alas. 

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Merry Christmas Everyone!!!!!!!

Posted on Tuesday, 24 December 2013



Merry Christmas Everyone!!!

I have slept for an hour...usually this would be because I am too excited to sleep but this year I was shattered. No, it is because my throat kills. It is really sore. So I am drinking tea and may prepare myself a bath soon. Very happy it is Christmas though :D Been having a good Christmas (very early) day so far!!!!!

I've snuck the dogs up to my room to keep me company. I was also worried about them because one of them ate a Chocolate Orange that I had in my room. It was hidden away and has been for aggggesssss but clearlyyyyyy they found it! SO BAD!


They seem fine.

Christmas Eve was lovely. Woke up with an awful throat but when to a beautiful ballet with my family. The Nutcracker. It was gorgeous. Such good dancers and the outfits were so magical. Felt so christmasy especially when The Nutcracker is set on Christmas Eve. I wore my new dress (literally had arrived in the morning!) and then went to London. When we came back I finished off wrapping a variety of presents, watched some TV and skyped Andy as he worked. Then my family and I had little nibbles for dinner (a special treat so prawns, tiny spring rolls and tiny cornish pasties). Nibbles always seem so fancy! So it was brilliant! And we had champagne :D And we watched Miracle on 31st Street. 

 So much fun!

Anyway have a brilliant Christmas. Absolutely brilliant Christmas. Hope it is magical. If there are any family fights (apparently there are lots at Xmas time) just breath, smile and escape to your happy place (with the sparkly wine, chocolate and Xmas TV!!!) But seriously, I am sending you hugs. I love you all! Merry Christmas!!!!