Life: Five Things I'm Grateful for so far this Year

Life: Five Things I'm Grateful for so far this Year

Monday, 10 April 2017

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FRIENDS AND FAMILY 

This one is pretty much a given in anyone’s list, right? I wouldn’t be where I am today without the continued love and support of all my friends and family. Everything’s working out so nicely for me at the moment, but it’s nice to have an amazing support network behind me if things go to pot!

OPPORTUNITIES

2017 has started off incredibly well for me, in terms of the countless opportunities I have been offered. I have a fantastic group of colleagues at the school I’ve recently started at, I’ve been offered a position for September at a school that ticks all of the boxes for me and I’m continuing to progress and make connections with publishing houses and countless brands for my blog. I am incredibly proud of myself and these achievements.

REUNIONS

Meeting up with friends who I haven’t seen in a while has become a theme of this year. I spent a week travelling through France and met up with two of my friends out there. When I got back, I met up with one of my best mates from college in London. I’ve also regained friendships with people that I thought were completely unfixable and I have never been so grateful to have these people in my life.

PHOTOGRAPHY

After Christmas, I used the money I’d earned doing overtime hours to buy myself a beautiful new Olympus PEN camera. Having a camera that is as good as this one has done wonders for my photography and I’m really enjoying going out and taking photos of all the things I’m getting up to. I’m making memories and have a means of recording these memories- what more could I ask for?

BOOKS
This one’s a bit of a given too, really, isn’t it? I’ve read some amazing books so far this year and I’m looking forward to reading even more as the year goes on. 

What are you grateful for at the moment? Let me know in the comments! 

Life: A Day at Ripon Races

Life: A Day at Ripon Races

Tuesday, 21 July 2015

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It was my dad’s 50th birthday this weekend just gone and we had a lovely family day out at Ripon races in Yorkshire. My dad’s really into horses so this was the perfect thing to treat him to and we had a lovely day out together, especially since I don’t actually like with them and my brother’s just about to head off to university himself.

We set off early in the morning and had a lovely picnic lunch in the sunshine which was absolutely lovely. The races themselves didn’t start until the afternoon, at 2pm, so we had chance to chill out and catch up as a family which was also really lovely. I put on my first ever horse racing bets and we watched all the races. I got VERY into it towards the end when one of my horses won and I didn’t spend a lot of money considering what an amazing day we had! I would definitely recommend this type of day out as a family, especially since it was a flats race so the horses couldn’t fall. I know for a fact I’d HATE that so this made me feel a lot better about it all! 

Have you done anything nice as a family recently?