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! 

Instagram: a month in the life...

Instagram: a month in the life...

Monday, 8 June 2015

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I’m not a big instagrammer nowadays, as I’ve mostly been spending my days at work or else travelling. Unfortunately, this doesn’t make for interesting pictures. I have managed to accumulate a few beautiful images over the last month so I thought I’d post a little summary blog post on these images to put a more personal spin on my blog. I’ll talk about the images from left to right. 

This weekend I caught up with my best friend and my old flatmates in Liverpool. I’ve just signed a contract for a new house in the city, after a year of living in France, but I can’t move in for another month, so I’m having to stay with friends and my parents in the meantime. On Friday morning, my best friend and I went for a post-night out breakfast at Leaf on Bold Street. I decided to go with American Style pancakes and they were delicious, the berry coulis was my favourite 

The second image is a beautiful image of where my parents live in Lancashire, where there are just miles and miles of countryside and fields. There’s also a beautiful reservoir where you can go sailing. 

My cousin and I are very close, and she just recently came to visit me in Strasbourg, where until 3 weeks ago I lived. The third picture is of us two as little ones, I think we were around 8 or 9 years old and it’s lovely to see that we’ve always been as close as we are now. I went to Paris with the same cousin whilst she was over in France for the day, and obviously we visited all of the different monuments and were super-tourists whilst we were out there. The fourth image is the fountain at Place de la concorde, the seventh is the back of Notre Dame cathedral, where we visited early doors. We also climbed the Eiffel tower, which for me is remarkable as I’m pathetically afraid of heights, to the extent where I normally cry when I have to go up to high heights. I actually managed to climb up to the second floor of the tower and didn’t get too stressed out about it so woo me. We went to the Louvre (to see the Mona Lisa) and I love the pyramids outside so I took a couple of pictures of different views of those. 

Skipping back up to the fifth image, I recently treated myself to a cute little phone case. I love cats so this really suits my personality. I also went out for a dinner date in Liverpool city centre recently, I love getting dressed up to go out and I felt really cute in this outfit, so here’s my selfie. We ended up going to a Mexican tapas restaurant and the food was really good, it’s definitely somewhere I’d recommend to my friends (and have done!)

The final two images are of different places that I took my cousin to in Strasbourg. The first of the two is Parc de l’Orangerie, where we went one afternoon to sunbathe- Strasbourg gets to around 35 degrees around this time of year so it’s perfect weather to get a tan. The last is my favourite place in Strasbourg, Petite France, at night. It really is a beautiful place to live and my photos just don’t do it justice.

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