'Time goes by so slowly.'

25/08/10

From September two years ago until this June, I studied for my GCSEs and now I have my results! In retrospect it seems rather pointless working for two years to receive a piece of paper which on it has letters that my school's ethos gave me a specific opinion of. Nonetheless I was not disappointed with many of my results at all:

In the end I ascertained 3 A*s, 4 As and 6 Bs. So not too bad really :D I was predicted 3 As, couple of Cs and the rest Bs. I got an A in maths! (you'd understand my excitement if you knew how utterly terrible I have always been at that subject) Woot!

As a well done my wonderful mother bought me a pandora charm. J'adore ca. <3

'Earless and eyeless, perfectly voiceless.'

22/08/10

This poem is one of the very few that I liked from our GCSE syllabus. I wouldn't say I'm as much as a feminist as Sylvia Path was, the writer of this poem, but I just love how it's put across. :]

Mushrooms
Overnight, very
Whitely, discreetly,
Very quietly

Our toes, our noses
Take hold on the loam,
Acquire the air.
Nobody sees us,
Stops us, betrays us;
The small grains make room.

Soft fists insist on
Heaving the needles,
The leafy bedding,
Even the paving.
Our hammers, our rams,
Earless and eyeless,

Perfectly voiceless,
Widen the crannies,
Shoulder through holes. We

Diet on water,
On crumbs of shadow,
Bland-mannered, asking
Little or nothing.
So many of us!
So many of us!
We are shelves, we are
Tables, we are meek,
We are edible,
Nudgers and shovers
In spite of ourselves.
Our kind multiplies:
We shall by morning
Inherit the earth.
Our foot's in the door.

'Home could be anywhere when I am holding you.'

21/08/09

Blackpool. WHAT A HOLIDAY! I went with my boyfriend and all of his friends to the heart of Blackpool from Friday 13th (shock horror) to the Monday - so a weekend thing really.

 Ah the happy couple :] ^^
We basically spent all of our nights drinking in clubs and all of our days walking around the beach; the local shops and attractions doing whatever the flop we wanted. Twas brilliant really.

In this picture you see Syndicate in the background, and a little bit - and I stress only a little bit! - hungover Libby in the foreground. We went there the night before this photo was taken and it was awesome. Though it was slightly too large and Brad and I had a slight issue in finding the other drunkards :] As far as my knowledge goes, it holds the most amount of people on one floor than any other club in Europe, hence why we lost people; and also hence why - even on a Saturday night - the top floor was closed because not enough people were in the club. If I'm being honest there were ridiculous amounts of people there! So we didn't get the full Syndicate experience but it was good enough for us to remove our original plan to just generally club hop because of our wristband things. So, all was well :]

This particular holiday was my first without any adult supervision (if you don't count eighteen year olds as adults, of course) and I full on adored the independence it gave me! It was generally speaking inexpensive and most definitely THE holiday to remember :D x

'So take the photographs and still frames in your mind, hang it on a shelf in good health and good time.'

18/08/09

I'm safely back from Turkey, I got home at about 1.30 dans the matin and I slept a lot and I feel recovered enough to write about the wonderful time I had there!

I went with my mother, my sister Ellie, my nanna, my uncle and my two cousins James and Matt. Yes, as you can see there were quite a few of us to all be going on holiday together so my Uncle (i do love his sense of humor) founded the 'Von Trapp Seven'. Everywhere we went, to round us up one of us would shout 'Von Trapps!' and there were the 'older types' and the 'younger sorts' within our clan.

'the von trapp seven.'

It was a holiday full of laughter that for every day that we were there, a 'quote of the day' was introduced and we had to choose which was the funniest thing someone said that day. My personal favourite was 'Actually, Matt your balls are quite tasty.' Don't ask. I'm now wondering why I put a private joke on a contraption that people are supposed to read...

Our days consisted of trying to learn the lingo which ended abysmally - sizzling sorbet - sunbathing and eating and drinking as much as we jolly well liked. Oh the wonders of all inclusive holidays.

'As this picture demonstrates, I do not tan awfully well...'

 We also met some absolutely wonderful people there. Jess and her family from Manchester could not have been any nicer if we'd asked for it. Without them our holiday may not have been as enjoyable being as we were able to share the lovely moments that we had in Baia Lara other than amongst ourselves. We spent days sunbathing together and spent the evenings wandering and doing as we pleased. All in all a beautiful family and a beautiful holiday.

Oh. My. Goodness. Turkish baths.com. When taking a break from the 36 degree heat, you walk into this spa and this particular room is where you can perform Turkish baths. It's huge; it's fully marble; the marble is nicely heated; the room smells gorgeous and  you can just pour water over yourselves and others with authentic jugs and such. Amazing.

While there we also had a photo shoot done just for the hell of it and it wasn't cheap but we had a lovely time doing it - the photographer being foreign to us was trying desperately to get us to understand him: 'Little up, stronger!' He was a dude.

I loved Turkey very very much and I've made memories I'll never forget. <3

All my love, Libby :] x