tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76247225486750880362024-03-13T00:16:23.207-07:0020 SomethingElliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03020067181004380262noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7624722548675088036.post-50227993000434256302012-03-25T10:39:00.000-07:002012-03-25T10:39:34.991-07:00Hair today, gone tomorrow!Before I start, I just wanted to acknowledge the wit in my title of this post! It made me laugh a lot!<br />
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Anyway, the sunny days keep approaching, which is the most wonderful thing in the world, however as it's becoming vest top and skirt weather, I have definitely realised that hair is a big no no! No longer can I use the excuse of having an extra layer of insulation! <br />
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The hippy look is very on trend at the moment but I'm not sure it can be pushed as far as free growing body hair unfortunately!<br />
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So, for the first time in a long time I decided to purchase some new razors! Ps. Crikey at the cost of razors these days!!! So, I opted (because I had to...) for a cheaper Boots brand that looked as though they had quality Venus elements! And they were in fact very impressive: my legs were left silky smooth! I finished off by ex-foliating with some Soap and Glory and body creaming it up- feeling smooth and smelling good too (at least for the time being!)<br />
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Yes, Yes, Yes to all of the above, they did run around, they did have snotty noses, they did wet themselves BUT in actual fact they were all incredibly cute by the end!<br />
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Now I have the joy of being back at Uni, and after only being back a week, another dental emergency evoked! I did the best I could with a tube of anaesthetic cream and high dosage of extra strong paracetamol + ibuprofen, however not even the super dental skills of me or tabby could resolve this. I will not go into all the gory details, but it was not looking good! Only two weeks ago I was telling the children if you look after teeth they will be healthy but no no no! Even though I brush, floss, mouthwash (and the purple Listerine mouthwash too! Not just any old one!) I have been informed that my teeth are pretty rubbish thanks to genetics (And my addiction of chocolate and all things sweet!)<br />
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I have been advised to drink juice through a straw to avoid the sugar attacking my poor defenceless teeth! So I thought I could eat chocolate through a straw to avoid the sugar invasion also! There are two ways of doing this, neither of which are time effective!<br />
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1. Keep sucking through the straw until chocolate melts itself and comes through (very unlikely to be successful!)<br />
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2. Break chocolate into lots of little pieces. By the time you get through a couple of squares the chocolate does not seem to be worth the hassle! If I could only eat chocolate (or all food for that matter) through a straw, then I would be a very streamline woman! The straw diet, could it be the next fad? <br />
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A trip to York theatre to see the sound of music for a bargain price, £5 each ticket (I know you shouldn't say the cost of gifts but it was just such a bargain find!) trying not to sing at the top of our voices as lady next to us was looking a little glum! It was a very very good show, but Captain Von Trapp was no Christopher Plummer: a little too camp and perhaps a little too old, giving a slight feel of inappropriateness with the ever so young looking Maria! His boots were also not a good look, perhaps didn't help that knee high leather boots over jodhpurs have been a popular trend amongst the ladies lately!<br />
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We carried on the evening at ASK restaurant which is the most magnificent building! We shared a delicious pizza and chips and salad and we couldn't even finish it! Which we usually could! The gin did definitely get finished though! We couldn't even squeeze in a dessert! Most unlike us!<br />
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Mum was going early the next morning (well she was meant to but I'll come back to that later!) so I took full advantage of the car and we did an Asda shop! Sadly, I am no longer a sainsburys snob as Asda is full of so many bargains! I was happily stocked up and we treated ourselves (and the rest of my lovely housies) to some delicious yum yums! That were just so yum! I remembered that mum had said I looked slimmer earlier on on the day, so thought I could defs afford to eat not one but two yum yums! I wouldn't want to waste away now! <br />
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We retired to my bedroom and watched the last 2 episodes of Sex and the City (as carrie is in Paris... not long now!!), snuggled up together! All was lovely until the floor started to pulsate and a sudden blast of techno dub step hip hop music riffled through the walls! Wonderful- the next door neighbours we never speak to had decided to have one of their all night house raves- we were most disappointed to not have had an invite! Luckily mum was in a good frame of mind that 'it's a Saturday night and students should be having fun'. She then went into depth about all the parties we've had! The millennium party where the firemen came was defs a highlight, moreso for her than me at the time as I was only ten and too young to appreciate the beautiful men in uniform! Anyway, this all night rave lasted nearly all night, hence why we overslept and she set off late! But a lovely weekend with of course the greatest mum in the world :) xxxxxx <br />
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To find out more about what Unicef are about and how Own A Colour will help to support them, watch this video:<br />
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Many celebrities have already taken part, including legendary Mr Bond star- Sir Roger Moore, naming his colour Swedish Blue.<br />
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Not only can you name a colour, but Purple Ronnie have been in collaboration with Dulex and there is some poetry thrown in too! If you are stuck for Valentines Ideas, name a colour for your beloved and Purple Ronnie will write them a poem to go with it!<br />
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This is my colour (probably am a bit too obsessed with Katy Perry, but it was influenced by my lovely Yorky friend, Miss Berry- the children in her school call her Miss PerryBerry! A perfect fit!)<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Make a donation as small as £1, own your very own colour, and most importantly, save a child's life!</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.ownacolour.com/#about">http://www.ownacolour.com/#about</a>Elliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03020067181004380262noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7624722548675088036.post-39991104639069990462012-02-05T05:28:00.000-08:002012-02-05T05:28:40.009-08:00Fashion in LondonMy lucky friend Alex is living an exciting life in London...<br />
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Have a read of her blog to see what she has been up to :)<br />
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<a href="http://alexs-i.blogspot.com/">http://alexs-i.blogspot.com</a>Elliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03020067181004380262noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7624722548675088036.post-45533649005791091802012-01-10T11:58:00.000-08:002012-01-10T11:58:10.952-08:00The day we became dentistsA little while ago, I came home from a long day at Uni and slumped myself on Tabby's bed. She was lucky enough to have spent the whole afternoon napping! So we had a little de-brief about our day (mainly about mine as the majority of hers was spent asleep- although she did have some interesting dreams to share!), out of the corner of my eye I spotted a purple packet... full of Vimto chewy sweets!! My favourite! So, I helped myself! (Tabby wanted me to note, that these Vimto sweets were provided by one of her ex-lovers! One of many, I may add!)<br />
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We carried on chatting, whilst I was gnawing through the chewy, chewy sweet. I swallowed and swung my tongue around my teeth and mouth to make sure there was no sweet stuck anywhere (this sounds a bit vile, but I'm sure everyone does it!) My tongue then fell into a big hole in one of my teeth. I was a bit shocked and uncertain with what it was, so I had a look: half my tooth and a filling had disappeared...<br />
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I thought the sweet tasted a bit different from how they usually do, but then I thought that was just because they had been in Tabby's room for a while... And it was a bit crunchier than they have ever been! Oops! I had swallowed my tooth with filling attached amongst the delicious sugary snack!<br />
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I went into panic mode! Muma Voce was on the other end of the phone within seconds.... and within minutes Tabby was dressed (as she had been in her pyjamas sleeping all day!)<br />
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We rushed to the walk-in, emergency dentists.. which closed at half past 5. It was 5.33pm. Buggering bugger! What is the point in an 'out of hours', emergency dentist if it is going to be closed in the 'out of hours' hours of the day?! Odd. Luckily, we spotted an emergency NHS dentist number, for emergencies, on the window. So we were stood outside in the dark and freezing cold, and dialled in the long number. "If you have an emergency press 1..." Brilliant, an automated lady, just what you need in an emergency! Proceeding pressing '1', I was asked to press about 5 more different numbers. This then lead me to an even more patronising automated lady, telling me that I need to complete a form ONLINE, for them to then phone me back, if they ever read it and judge the urgency of the situation. Well, this was ridiculous! Muma Voce had suggested a temporary filling from Boots, so we sprinted (almost, more of a speedy walk), to town!<br />
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We got to the small Boots, closest to us, which we were relying on, as the clock was ticking so we were anxious about them closing, the lights looked on, but when we got there we just realised it was the reflection of the Hog Roast shop onto the windows. Ahh!<br />
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We literally did run to the other Boots, further across town. We could see the lights on and the doors open in the horizon, but it was just minutes away from 6'o'clock... would we make it there on time?<br />
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We scampered through the doors and split up to save time! I ran to the pharmacy desk and the woman presented me with two kits! I was shocked that these temporary filling kits actually existed!!<br />
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We quickly got home and went straight upstairs to the bathroom to start the dental procedure. Tabby read out instructions and I sat on the chair, nervously. Here's the steps to your very own temporary filling, for those life/death tooth situations:<br />
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Step one: Use a cotton bud to soak up any excess moisture on the tooth in question.<br />
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Step two: Clean the tooth, using a cotton bud dipped in the yucky tasting liquid.<br />
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Step three: Scape a bit of the new filling and apply to tooth and smooth it so it's even.<br />
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The dentist said we had done a spectacular job! If the teaching business fails, we could definitely go into dentistry!Elliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03020067181004380262noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7624722548675088036.post-88084464929227793832012-01-04T15:13:00.000-08:002012-01-04T15:13:13.084-08:00Highlights of 2011<span style="background-color: white;"> I really can't quite believe how quickly this year has flown by. I actually managed to complete a year of university! And returned for the next year! I managed to go on two lovely holidays, made some very very lovely friends in Yorky York, and have had some wonderful times with my favourite girlys.</span><br />
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</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">All I wanted was to be with my girlies, have a few drinks and have a cheeky dance! And that's exactly what we did! With a few special guests (all of our favourite boys!) We started off at my house and then ventured into town for midnight to dance the night away...</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /></span><br />
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</span></div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">We all snuggled on the sofa to watch a Christmas film (tradition on Christmas eve!), and this Muma Voce insisted on <i>Nativity</i>. None of us had seen it before, however, it is the cutest, lovliest film, and has given me a bit of a boost in being a teacher again!! Defs worth a watch!</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We always open one present each on Christmas Eve, and so we opened one from Aunty Sue, which was for me, Sara and Muma Voce. I knew in June that we would be getting this gift, as it is what Aunty Sue does, but we love love loved it!!!! :). The Take That Progess Tour DVD! Because we had all been together in June and had the best time! We left out a mince pie and a beer for Santa, and then went to bed!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I was the first one to wake up on Christmas day, as always! I decided to text everyone to wish them a happy christmas, including all the family in my house, in the hope that it would wake them all up! And I was successful!!!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We all went downstairs and put some christmas songs on the music channels, and all gathered around to give each other all of our presents! Charlie didn't get up for absolutely ages! Muma Voce had to go and wake him up, and he told her to not look around the room! (He had all of our presents lying around the room, and was yet to wrap them!) Finally, he came downstairs, so we could open all the beautifully wrapped presents (they were all beautifully wrapped, except the ones that Muma Voce wrapped- it's not one of her best skills... she should stick to the trifle making really!), </span></div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">We all had some lovely, thoughtful things! But soon realised how hungry we were... all that unwrapping had really worked up an appetite! So Papa Voce kindly volunteered himself to make us all breakfast.... (we definitely did not tell him to go to the kitchen where he belongs!) Cheese and ham croissants baked in the oven so the cheese was all melted and the croissants melted on your tongue... yum, yum, yum! My best find of 2011! We quickly got dressed into our new christmas clothing, and hopped in the car to go to see the rest of the family! (I'm going to miss out the part where Muma Voce and Charlie had a small row, as Charlie's car had no petrol and she was adamant that all the petrol stations were closed... thank goodness Charlie was right!)</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">We eventually got to John and Claires, were Uncle Jamie, Cic, Nana and Grandad were all waiting eagerly for our arrival. More presents to unwrap! Uncle Jamie was not impressed, as Nana got Muma Voce and John a bottle of alcohol each, and he got a scarf! We had lots and lots of delicious snacks to go alongside, as well as champagne and whatever drink you could imagine, you could have it! My favourite of the finger foods was these little beef wellington's; they made your mouth water!</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">Muma Voce and Nana took the dogs for a walk before dinner: Muma Voce had Molly, our cute little Spaniel, and Nana had John and Claire's, bigger, stronger dog, Pasher! I really wish I'd have gone with them, as Mum came back with a very funny story:</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">They had come across a man walking two big dogs, and Pasher picked up some pace and started running towards them... Nana was holding the lead and started to speed up too... She is not the tallest of ladies (shorter then me, which is an achievement!), and her little legs were moving so quickly. To make it funnier, although Nana is of course, a very elegant, sophisticated woman, she is very prone to having wind. So as each leg was frantically moving, you can only imagine the speed of wind she was creating! This story had the whole family laughing a lot, for a lot of the afternoon!</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">Dinner was eventually served, which made Grandad extremely happy, and it was a feast of the biggest Turkey you could ever imagine (and that was just for Grandad!), honey roasted parsnips, delicious, crispy roast potatoes, a variety of vegetables, home made cranberry sauce..... there was so much deliciousness all on one table!</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">This was followed by the infamous Muma Voce trifle (for whoever dared eat it!), christmas pudding, and home made Creme Brulee's which were the favourite by most! </span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">We played games throughout the rest of the afternoon, until it was time to go home, where we all crashed on the sofa and watched the ever happy, ever cheerful, ever joyous, Eastenders Chrismas day special. </span></span>Elliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03020067181004380262noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7624722548675088036.post-27134995913892215172012-01-04T15:07:00.001-08:002012-01-04T15:07:51.833-08:00Cheeky trip to London- August 2011<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">As neither of us had the time or the money in the summer to go on a holiday abroad, Jonny and I decided that we'd go to London for a few nights. We had a look around for some hotels and cheap deals and found a very nice hotel for a bargain!</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">I went out with the girls the night before we went to London and so felt very horrendous the next morning!! It was at this point that I finally learnt to man up with a hangover, instead of lying in bed all day feeling sorry for myself!</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">We got the slow train to London (as it was cheapy cheap compared to the extortionate prices of the fast train!), and arrived at Kings Cross about an hour and a half later. </span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">We wondered around the back streets off Oxford Road for ages trying to find our hotel. I was walking ahead with my bottle of water, whilst Jonny struggled behind me with all the bags and suitcases (he did insist!!). We eventually found it, and were both very shocked and excited with how posh it was!</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">When we got to our room, the first thing we did was jumped on the bed! (It's just one of those things you have to do!!)</span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">We were very impressed with our matching 'his and hers' hotel dressing gowns; so much so that we paraded around the hotel wearing them!!! </span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK7OnQH4BLz8tGyMv_zzesEjKu4-MDtSek2yRde_nCX3kIMcZx4KHIgKnChvi25FT2rGwjixOqA5JUEEviFPh0P7HcyaPVfpNNfQ5K4C1-B7cezsls2y38djJYVWxd-xSkAC9fUMEDKN8/s1600/320824_10150769481830445_577140444_20480013_8114544_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK7OnQH4BLz8tGyMv_zzesEjKu4-MDtSek2yRde_nCX3kIMcZx4KHIgKnChvi25FT2rGwjixOqA5JUEEviFPh0P7HcyaPVfpNNfQ5K4C1-B7cezsls2y38djJYVWxd-xSkAC9fUMEDKN8/s320/320824_10150769481830445_577140444_20480013_8114544_n.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px; position: relative;" width="240" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We were (well mainly me!), were very, very happy that there were chocolates left on the bed, and they were very sweet and wished us a "Good night". How thoughtful of them! And, Jonny let me eat BOTH of the chocolates!!! Delish!!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The first evening, we decided to venture away from the Oxford Street area, and went to Leicester Square. We found a little Italian restaurant, and as we were both incredibly hungry we thought that we could eat anything and it would be amazing!! Jonny ordered something yummy and delicious (I can't remember what though!) and I was being ever so healthy, and went for a chicken salad. Went it came, it was more of just a ceaser sauce soup, with some lettuce and chicken floating around. Not impressed at all, but I ate as much as I could, and then made Jonny share his yummy, not so healthy, but extremely delicious dinner!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The next day we visited a university in London, as Jonny was going to be starting there in September!! It was a bit of a treck, but it was a really beautiful sunny day!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Ellie and Jonny at Buckingham Fountain</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Ellie and Jonny with Buckingham Palace and a lady with a big rucksack!</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">In the evening we found another restaurant in Leicester Square (we hadn't planned on going back to Leicester Square, but we somehow ended up there without realising!). This time, I was sensible and decided to not be healthy, and to not order a salad! I didn't want another Ceaser soup! So I had Seabass with Mediterranean vegetables and lots of delicious potatoes! It was a very good choice, possibly one of the most yummiest meals I've had in my whole life! We then went to the Haagen Daaz ice cream parlour: I had some Bailey's ice cream which was divine! Jonny had some Mango sorbet, which was also yum yum yum (I ate most of that too!)</span></span><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We were then having a walk around and found....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;">M'N'M WORLD!!!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This was a brilliant moment, as I am a big chocolate fan! There were large Mr M'n'M figures all around, and lots of merchandise and, most importantly, millions and millions of M'n'M's!!! It was 3 stories high, and the colours were bold and vibrant!!! It was a magical place!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">After the shock of bumping into Mr Claus, we ventured to South Bank. We walked along the Thames, past the London Eye, and found a staircase! We climbed the stairs (which I think did wonders for my thighs and calves!), and found a roof-top garden! With a bar and a little cafe! It was beautiful; green plants and brightly coloured flowers everywhere. You could see for miles from the balcony. They did lots of organic drinks, so we opted for the freshly squeezed lemonade, as it sounded very quenching and refreshing on such a hot day! We both sipped it for a while, and then caught each other pulling that face when things are very bitter. We were trying to hide our disgust of the £4 a cup drink from each other; thank goodness we both felt the same so we could throw them away!</span><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">We made a quick escape from the terrible drink and wondered past the Aquarium. I had never been inside, and neither had Jonny. So we felt very spontaneous and decided to go in!!! Wild!!! There were so many fish inside! (As there should be in an Aquarium I suppose), and we spent hours wondering around and learning about all the different species! It was actually really interesting! And the penguins were very cute!</span><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">We had to go home that evening, but we both didn't want to at all! It was the best 3 days!! And we did so, so much! I forgot to mention about all the shopping we did, and how many shops I dragged Jonny into, but you can imagine that!</span></span><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">That evening, to cheer ourselves up, and help to recover from those holiday blues, we decided to treat ourselves to a KFC boneless banquet meal, each. And then had a McFlurry! Comfort eating really does help!</span></div>Elliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03020067181004380262noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7624722548675088036.post-29090562158791134662012-01-04T15:06:00.001-08:002012-01-04T15:06:55.677-08:00Katy Perry- California Dreams Tour 2011<div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4012515852299804268" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; width: 440px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><b><u>London Hammersmith Apollo- 19th March 2011</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Possibly one of the best birthday presents I've ever had was given to me from the lovely Lee family: a ticket to see Katy Perry! My birthday was in the December and the show wasn't until the March! So we had 3 months to learn every lyric of the new album, <i>Teenage Dream</i> and prepare ourselves for the excitement of the California Dreams tour!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Ellie, Jo Lee and Becca Lee very excited!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We had seated tickets so did not need to queue from so early on, as some of the other Katy Cat's did! The time finally came to join the queue of excitable fans and we entered the venue to be greeted by the smell of sweet, delicious, candyfloss. This was something we had anticipated, as Katy had posted on her </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Twitter </i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">account:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i> <span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">"</span><span style="line-height: 19px;">I hope that it's going to engage all of your senses: sight, sound, smell, taste, touch".</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;"> It most certainly did smell delicious, and we also experienced a delicious taste of candyfloss too, as it was being sold alongside the merchandise. Yum, yum, yum!</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Becca Lee with the yummy candyfloss!<br />
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</tbody></table><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">When looking at the merchandise, it showed what a charitable and thoughtful woman Miss Perry is, as she was donating a large profit to the Japan Earthquake appeal. We brought some of her <i>Cherry Chapstick </i>and some light up firework stick things (really not sure of the real name!!)</span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Before Katy came on stage, a film was projected. It was the beginning of a story, of how Katy Perry landed in 'Candyfornia'. </span></span><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">Ooooh, every song that she sang was brilliant, whoever said that Katy can't sing live, needs to go to one of her shows!! The whole show was completely and utterly brilliant: she interacted with the audience so much (I really wish I was one of the lucky fans at the front that she KISSED!!!), and fans were also able to go up on stage (very jealous!).</span></span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Katy finished the show with her number one single: California Girls, which seemed the perfect way to end it: she had giant gingerbread puppets, and was joined on stage with the very talented dancers, who had supported her throughout the whole show, and in themselves had also put on a fabulous performance!</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">I had the best time of my life when I saw Katy in March, and the ticket prices were not unreasonable, like they are for so many artists these days. They priced at about £30, which was definitely more than worth it!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">The concert was on a Thursday, and this time we had standing tickets, so we know we had to get there early, so that we could be as close as possible. Unfortunately, this meant that Uni was off the cards that day!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">I went with 3 of my favourite Yorkies: Miss PerryBerry, Tabby and Sofia! We spent the evening before hand making our very own "I <3 Katy Perry tops" and all had blue wigs, (except from Tabbs, as her hair was 'wild' enough on its own!), and we wore them on the train to Newcastle which made it even more exciting. I'm going to skip pass the depressing part of the day, where Miss PerryBerry forgot to bring her railcard, so had to pay a lot a lot of money because the ticket man clearly wasn't having a generous day!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">We arrived at Newcastle station, where my eccentric Uncle Ian met us, wearing his usual bright salmon (not pink) shirt! He was ever so kind, and let us have his flat for the night, so we had somewhere to stay! He had made us all a packed lunch, to keep up our energy levels throughout our day of waiting, which consisted of: a bottle of Evian, a can of diet coke (he is very health conscious!), a small box of sushi, a salmon and soft cheese sandwich (courtesy of Tesco's Finest), a Cadbury's Twirl, and a small baguette. Yumm! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">He then dropped us off at the Metro arena (which for some reason took us quite some time to find!), and we made our way past some fans that had camped over night!! That is very dedicated... especially in October! There were some fans with mohican's (not really the type that I would have expected as a Katy Perry fan, but then this could resemble the days when I dressed as a goth, but S Club were still by favourite band!) </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">There were about 40 people in front of us in the queue, and we soon made friends with the people around us, and had a great time singing lots of Katy Perry songs! It did rain a bit, but we were geniuses, and had come prepared: with black bin liners! Not only are they good for warmth, but they also protect from the rain! And, you can throw them away!!</span></span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">7 hours later, the doors opened. I have honestly never thought I was going to die, as much as I did at the moment. The hoards of fans pushed and pushed and ran and ran to try and get through the doors first. Being the standard height of an 11 year old really does not help in situations like these! The four of us held hands tightly and somehow got our way through the doors, and then the next 7002308208120820128028210 doors we had to go through, to get into the arena. We shot to the stage, and this time, there was an added on catwalk, so we positioned ourself with good view of both the stage and the catwalk! And we got an amazing view!! We were so, so close! (So close that Miss PerryBerry noticed that Miss Perry had a little bit of cellulite!!- this made us love her even more!! She was a NORMAL REAL woman!!!)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">She had added in some more bits to this show and it was even better then the first time (which I didn't think was even possible!!!)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">Definitely would be happy to go to her concerts every day of my life!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">Here are some photos of the show:</span></span><br />
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</span></b></u><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><i style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">Forever 21 is an American brand, which I discovered once when I was out there. I have visited one store in the UK, which is located in the Westfield Centre in London. There is also one in The Bullring, Birmingham and on Oxford Street, London.</i><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><i style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</i><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">The clothes in this store are not over priced at the best of times, however during this sale period they are cut to very cheap prices as well as many items being a "buy one, get one free" basis. I am a big lover of a bargain find and I found myself spending only £50 (of birthday/christmas money!), and managing to get 9 or 10 items from that! And to make things even better, the delivery was free!</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">These are some of the items that I purchased:</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.forever21.com/UK/Product/Product.aspx?BR=f21&Category=sale&ProductID=2000023603" style="background-color: white; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo8BlJe2XkGt0zqk_7mDi7kgPgIoT-bM8NtKmq_MxO8zIuDNIeiTNw41v3MAERGHXGqkGjExaaYSWu8wQcUr68SBcoGio1WLFM4WAdXBtPcSCktjdmg0DdHGFxYh1Pit132IfLXr-i-Xs/s320/00023603-03.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px; position: relative;" width="262" /></span></a></div><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.forever21.com/UK/Product/Product.aspx?BR=f21&Category=sale&ProductID=2000029620" style="background-color: white; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSHlVXUpdpNEIp6tdSmccL3r-L2ggMYuksWYFA10gNdgTHuyPdvhtA0PDTJ6w8zJs63p2C3VMTnL0OD022ioQADfTf1M8OT6yOcXhPdMwCZrmOh02LcwU3hw0XynuJeTnwE7PUTx06zoM/s320/00029620-02.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px; position: relative;" width="262" /></span></a></div><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.forever21.com/UK/Product/Product.aspx?BR=f21&Category=sale&ProductID=2000032295" style="background-color: white; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTNXNLIYfEmGMfmZL7wN9Af7sEUDFpwophP4nBe_fH5N_Ofh1auBBzXrz-V8Mgf6F3iRmrYcI2yKsrWA1tyOPiVyyK1zow94VB8NxEqRRntksE0UtWgVLG9-Mu2m09poPezmvGHKZOf1M/s320/00032295-01.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px; position: relative;" width="262" /></span></a></div><div class="" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;">So definitely follow this link as there are lots of coats, knitwear, dresses, trousers, menswear, children's wear and accessories which are bargains!!!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.forever21.com/UK/Product/Category.aspx?br=f21&category=sale" style="background-color: white; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;">http://www.forever21.com/UK/Product/Category.aspx?br=f21&category=sale</span></a></div><div class="" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Boots</u></b></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;">I love love love Boots at Christmas time! Some of the 3 for 2 stuff can be a little impersonal, however there are some great things too! And now, in the sale, it's nearly all half price!! If you can't find anything for yourself, it would be very tactical to buy some half price gifts for upcoming birthdays or even for next Christmas!! (Although that is being super organised!!!)</span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;"><u><b style="background-color: white;">Soap and Glory</b></u></div><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">I completely adore the Soap and Glory things; I have their make-up, and was lucky enough to get a big selection of their products for my birthday and Christmas!</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">Some of their Soap and Glory gift packs are half price!!</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.boots.com/en/Soap-Glory-trade-You-Cube-trade-Gift-Box_1219995/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The Soap and Glory "You Cube" Gift box is half price at £5! And includes all the necessities: The Righteous Butter body butter, Flake Away, Body Polish, Clean on Me shower gel, Hand Food hand cream, and a Super Sudsy Puff.</a><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="background-color: white;"><i style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">Celia Birtwell is a textile designer, who produces a range of wallpapers and fabrics, housing accessories, clothes and stationary to name but a few. Her style is very bold and feminine, and takes influence from the artist: Picasso. She has designed clothes for High-street fashion store: Topshop, and this year has produced a range of items which have been selling in Boots over the festive season.</i><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><i style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</i><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">All of these items are now half price in Boots!</span></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYp1i30KalvgRfVv82XnvDWq8TJ6cdr0oWTSysEnKMJ7ZcZ5QsFkJiYHOY6cmg2779KqObWiwuuo1FSCuqV46AEqPWGW9mZlhDaQFluYxciG4H6APukes_gaI37nHU-bRHsm9ciwax5nI/s1600/Untitled2.png" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYp1i30KalvgRfVv82XnvDWq8TJ6cdr0oWTSysEnKMJ7ZcZ5QsFkJiYHOY6cmg2779KqObWiwuuo1FSCuqV46AEqPWGW9mZlhDaQFluYxciG4H6APukes_gaI37nHU-bRHsm9ciwax5nI/s320/Untitled2.png" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px; position: relative;" width="236" /></span></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 11px;"><a href="http://www.boots.com/en/Celia-Birtwell-Photo-Frame_1220089/" style="background-color: white; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">"Celia Birtwell Photo Frame"</span></a></td></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0Ui4mmdZ9NCgsWz8ezfmGRcY0tvhTh0xSprmxNgD9obAZL2pmRgnOG1PEnhlkxfEorsFfpSee_UZRYuMmp9xrhObXUJn_o1D1Y2yqdRVgjkKbbsoMnANqf5zdXIFvS9tGh8gR_9kZ8yE/s1600/Untitled1.png" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0Ui4mmdZ9NCgsWz8ezfmGRcY0tvhTh0xSprmxNgD9obAZL2pmRgnOG1PEnhlkxfEorsFfpSee_UZRYuMmp9xrhObXUJn_o1D1Y2yqdRVgjkKbbsoMnANqf5zdXIFvS9tGh8gR_9kZ8yE/s320/Untitled1.png" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px; position: relative;" width="317" /></span></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.boots.com/en/Celia-Birtwell-Vanity-Case_1220095/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">"Celia Birtwell Vanity Case"</a><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">I am a very big fan of Birtwell's designs and have found her very own website shop with lots of lovely things on it! (When I find things like this, I wish I was a bazillionaire!!):</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><a href="http://www.celiabirtwell.com/" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.celiabirtwell.com/</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"> </span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">Happy Sales Shopping, everyone!!!</span></span>Elliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03020067181004380262noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7624722548675088036.post-38861395071180222922012-01-04T15:05:00.000-08:002012-01-04T15:05:02.310-08:00The Night of the Missing Shoe...<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">One of the best things about coming home for Christmas is being able to see your best friends! Peteyb is defs not the most exciting of cities; especially coming here after being in such lovely places such as York, Durham and Nottingham! It's also quite difficult adjusting back into home life after being in university mode for so long! We were all missing our Student Union's and exciting night life from our university homes, so Kate, El and I decided on a classic PeteyB night out. The rest of the girlies could not come for numerous reasons, but we were excited to see lots of old, familiar faces in the local Weatherspoons where we would venture to first!</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">I got ready with my sister, as she was also preparing for the night life of PeteyB with one of her friends, and eagerly waited the arrival of Kate and Els. An hour after the arranged time of arrival, a knock at the door, and they were finally here. (The thing about Kate, is that she is always late! It is very lucky that she is worth the wait!)</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">In their hands, was a full bottle of 'Smirnoff' Vodka (which was just a disguise of a bottle- it was full of all the drags of cheap vodka bottles they'd had left over!) and a bottle of Morrison's Peach Schnapps. I can no longer drink Vodka, after a very silly, naive night involving cheap Vodka, Lilt and a Hog Roast (I can no longer drink Lilt, or eat pork any more either!) This meant that the cheap peach schnapps was a winner for me! And I had plenty of it too! (An excellent thing about having a birthday 12 days before Christmas, is that you get all the bottles of alcohol that people leave behind at your party! You are then set for Christmas and New Year! Brilliant!)</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">We had a few cheeky drinks, lots of photographs (as Kate and I are very snap happy!!! Especially now I've got a gorgeous new camera from Jonny!), and then we hopped in a taxi to town. (I live about a 5 minute walk from town, but a walk is just not practical when you are wearing very high heels!)</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /></span><br />
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<tr><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrrcX9LGpNB2JzpZnCQNCv837hywXfcA0duv-2GtPPX6oudDz6CUEi4irp6ttZTTggdoa9QXR_jQO6o6qKFtPA7AV62xMREh6kxuF-vlY6OiUleRLVAENU2Qv6-rW4wJS9AcCgWFkqBt0/s1600/DSC00274.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrrcX9LGpNB2JzpZnCQNCv837hywXfcA0duv-2GtPPX6oudDz6CUEi4irp6ttZTTggdoa9QXR_jQO6o6qKFtPA7AV62xMREh6kxuF-vlY6OiUleRLVAENU2Qv6-rW4wJS9AcCgWFkqBt0/s320/DSC00274.JPG" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px; position: relative;" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Photographed by Papa Voce, just as the taxi arrived</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">We flashed our ID's to the big bouncers on the door, and went straight to the toilet. The walk to the toilets was more to spot any faces we wanted to embrace and spend our evening with. We said our hello's to quite a few lovely people, did a quick 'fake snow' photo shoot in the bathroom, and made our way back downstairs where we had become up to date with the lives of everyone that we hadn't seen for the past 3 or more months.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">A little later on, we went across the road to pretty much the only "night club" in PeteyB (if you can call it that!). We waited in the queue for quite some time, and eventually got inside where we had to pay 4 POUNDS!! My jaw nearly dropped to the floor!! Thursday nights in town used to be free!! I used to come home with more money than I went out with!! But 4 pounds!! Well, that was crazy!! We held hands and made a little train, so we didn't lose each other between the large amounts of under-age drinkers. We sat down at a table, where Kate started to search through her bag (she is one that often loses everything!), and so in her search for whatever she had lost at that moment, she accidently knocked over a full drink! The girl's whose drink it was, was definitely not impressed, not amused, did not want to see the bright side of life at all. Her face was caked in a thick orange war paint, her eyes were enlightened with a bright pink, very sparkly eyeshadow, and thick eyelines, with big spider like eyelashes... those eyelashes that look like she's reapplied about 50million layers of mascara that make the lashes all clump together. She was not wearing the most modest of outfits, and the look on her face was not something you would want to deal with. Kate, oblivious as always, carried on searching her bag for a missing item (which later, turned out to not be missing!), and the girl was getting very agitated, which was fair enough as she had spent about 2864739124 pounds on a drink!! Luckily, Yanis was there to save the day!! And brought the girl a new drink! Phew!!</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">We made a quick escape and went upstairs to the "70's style" part of the club; somewhere the scary girl wouldn't be! We danced a lot. The heels were starting to hurt a bit, so we thought it would be a genius idea to take them off!! So we put our beautiful shoes at the side, no more than a metre away from where we were dancing! Everyone was having a jolly time, dancing and singing and happy, happy! And then, I saw that only ONE of my shoes was there!! I dragged my friend over, and still there was only one!! One of Kate's shoes had also gone missing!! At first, we thought the boys were playing a practical joke on us!! But as time passed, it became less funny, and we realised it really wasn't a joke!! We got all of our friends, searching and searching, we asked the bouncers to look for our beloved shoes, and the DJ even made an announcement.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">It got to the end of the night, the club was closing and people were leaving... there was still no sign of the shoes?!</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">So we hopped down the stairs and outside and went home with only one shoe.... very very upset!! I loved those shoes! (Thankfully, they were only £4 from ebay- but a £4 better spent then the cost of getting into the silly club!)</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-color: #fb6a38; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table>Elliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03020067181004380262noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7624722548675088036.post-52140293157990884162012-01-04T15:04:00.000-08:002012-01-04T15:04:03.255-08:00Katy and Russell Divorce<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">Late last night I received a text message from a very close friend of mine asking whether it was true that Katy Perry and Russell Brand were getting a divorce. There has been speculation for months and months that the high-profile couple were coming to an end.</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><div><span style="background-color: white;">I am very sad to say, that it seems these rumours are true, confirmed by Sky News:</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br />
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</span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: white;">Perry has spent 2011 on a year long, world tour; playing over 100 shows to her "Katy Cats" (Fans). She has had a phenomenal year: not only has she been nominated for 2 Grammy's for her number one hit 'Firework', but MTV have named her as "artist of the year". Her number one album "Teenage Dream" sold 192,000 copies in its first week, and has also seen 5 of its songs reach number ONE in the charts, including "California Girls" which featured sensational rapper: Snoop Dogg as well as "Last Friday Night", which was nominated for best video by numerous award ceremonies, and won best video at the Capricho awards in Brazil. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br />
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</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">The very attractive couple have had very little time together since their marriage in October 2010, which secretly took place in India; the same place where Brand proposed after just 3 months of them dating. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br />
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</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">With putting in such hard work with her sell-out,world tour,as well as creating high quality music videos and promoting her album and singles, Katy had spent some time partying and letting off some steam. (As anyone would want to!) Brand has been reported as being not too happy about her partying habits, however this does not seem to be a reason for them to split?</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br />
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</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">Earlier this month Russell appeared on the popular, American chat show "The Ellen DeGeneres show", where he told the host that he was "really happily married." </span></div></div></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Katy Perry also appeared on the same show, not long before Russell, telling Ellen how she'd love to start a family with her husband, saying that "If it doesn't hurt the first time, I'll keep popping them out!":</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white;">It does seem a little strange how they were both talking so happily about their marriage to each other, expressing their wanting of a family, and denying all rumours about a break up, only a few weeks before it was announced that Brand has filed for divorce.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Apparently, the two agreed to split a few weeks ago after a huge row; resulting in them spending Christmas apart. Katy spent it with her friends in Hawaii, whilst Russell was in Cornwall, photographed supporting a charity swim. (I know where I'd rather be!) She did not want to file for divorce, as she was brought up by Evangelical Christians that did not believe in divorce, so she asked Russell to do so instead.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white;">I am the biggest fan of Katy Perry; I love her to pieces! She is a wonderful woman and I am in ore of everything she does; however maybe this shows the craziness of celebrity relationships. Getting engaged and married within a year of knowing each other is probably not the best of moves! Lets hope they do stay "good friends", as Russell explains they will. </span></div>Elliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03020067181004380262noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7624722548675088036.post-20036874667543307032012-01-04T15:02:00.002-08:002012-01-04T15:02:59.579-08:00"Amazing Photos"<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">I rece</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">ived an email from Muma Voce a few days ago... she often forwards me "hilarious" emails that she says "I just have to read!" Usually I forget about them or don't spend my time reading them, and they stay unread in my hotmail inbox, alongside the other 1,702 emails that I am still yet to read.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">This latest email that she had forwarded onto me however, she kept on and on at me to have a look at: "Ellie, these photos are just incredible"....</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">Sick of being poorly, and having re-watched the whole of Made in Chelsea; season one, I had found myself with little to do... Science and English assignments are not looking too appealing right now; so I thought I'd open the email and see what all the hype was about...</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">Photograph after photograph that really are quite amazing!! So I thought I'd share a few of my favourites... </span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Lost Paradise in the Indian Ocean; Isle of Lamu</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr3LVF4RzSEZVr4IXqo3wcxPdwbnkOg4E-Qo75c78xpNo5KSeR8PEKNHrjBsBW4zaWF9LEYv34qK2n0ghX2Q_WsFg2D4ap5CmrCXgQ_sZ47BC72xxY29-nL6Sa1tVu0iXxiDp0AK640i8/s1600/000zttg7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr3LVF4RzSEZVr4IXqo3wcxPdwbnkOg4E-Qo75c78xpNo5KSeR8PEKNHrjBsBW4zaWF9LEYv34qK2n0ghX2Q_WsFg2D4ap5CmrCXgQ_sZ47BC72xxY29-nL6Sa1tVu0iXxiDp0AK640i8/s400/000zttg7.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Bruno Catalano created this statue, which is in France</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Office of Selgas Cano in Madrid<br />
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<tr><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6dAXzrXtW62uXlr9nWHmlH3K-n5aVcgA4C9r9lFfx1PsvExujk09DVS605sB3GvJvfSHe7A62drWCPqaAbBQEEiDrRPmG37JMokS_1sffT3-CyiAxt3w074rYLObn_sxa6bivIJ4gzdw/s1600/000z20ec.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6dAXzrXtW62uXlr9nWHmlH3K-n5aVcgA4C9r9lFfx1PsvExujk09DVS605sB3GvJvfSHe7A62drWCPqaAbBQEEiDrRPmG37JMokS_1sffT3-CyiAxt3w074rYLObn_sxa6bivIJ4gzdw/s400/000z20ec.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 11px;"><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 37px;"><i>Restaurant on a cliff on the east coast of Zanzibar. </i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 37px;"><i>Depending on the tide the restaurant can be reached both on foot and by boat.</i></span></span></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjocV-Bs1Oav-EXnnYEPyVW4JKUm45D1eoRA5jG-8Vu-9w9ExtklMX6QNfKIFu3Ep3YQkhMq4iFnnBKlvyZYILYvEuwFsqTy0H_WXX2B6PNPpa6gsd5a-NjOLIEEUizX3IgYFT-n9LaSpY/s1600/000z1x80.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjocV-Bs1Oav-EXnnYEPyVW4JKUm45D1eoRA5jG-8Vu-9w9ExtklMX6QNfKIFu3Ep3YQkhMq4iFnnBKlvyZYILYvEuwFsqTy0H_WXX2B6PNPpa6gsd5a-NjOLIEEUizX3IgYFT-n9LaSpY/s400/000z1x80.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: xx-small;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 37px; text-align: justify;">Emerald Lake in the crater of an extinct volcano. </span><span class="ecxyiv1743781912mark" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 37px; text-align: justify;">Tongariro</span><span class="ecxyiv1743781912apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 37px; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 37px; text-align: justify;">National Park - New</span><span class="ecxyiv1743781912mark" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 37px; text-align: justify;">Zealand</span></i></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">All of these photographs show not only great photography, but the amazing things that exist all over the world. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">Why would anyone choose to stay in Peteyb?! It baffles me!</span><span style="background-color: #fb6a38; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">e</span>Elliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03020067181004380262noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7624722548675088036.post-38786124130792519312012-01-04T15:02:00.000-08:002012-01-04T15:02:01.401-08:00How to get a FREE Nandos<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">Whilst everyone was at work today, I thought I'd take it upon myself to make everyone a delicious dinner as a surprise for when they got home. (And also because I love delicious dinners!)</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">I looked in the top cupboards for inspiration: half a bag of rigatoni pasta (not nearly enough for all of our beastly appetites), some chicken flavoured Super Noodles, a half empty box of Special K (I lie, it's not even real Special K, it's called something like 'Healthy Balance' from Sains) and a few cinnamon and raison bagels (which really do not go down well with Marmite). The next cupboard along had a tin of sweetcorn which has been there since we moved into this house 7 or 8 years ago, a couple of tins of tuna (which I later fed to the dog; a bribe for it to like me more than anyone else!) and some vegetable soup. I also found an Old El Paso salsa which I got very excited about (as I also found some tortilla crisps), and had planned a whole Mexican feast in my head...but then I saw the expiry date on the salsa sachet: 2003... I didn't think I could really risk giving the fam food poisoning so close to Christmas!</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">I text Sara requesting a selection of delicious Mediterranean vegetables from her work (Riverford Organic Food company- it's excellent food, you should all sign up and have some delivered directly to your door by some very friendly staff!), but sadly she didn't get my text until it was too late.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">When Charlie got home from work, I tried to persuade him to drive me to Sainsbury's to get some food, but he was desperate for a nap (I don't really blame him though as he had been at work since 7am). I couldn't deprive my brother of a nap, so I suggested that he let me borrow the car and go to Sains on my lonesome... he defs did not take to this idea, and told me there wasn't enough petrol (although the real reason is probably because he is very precious with his car, and he knows what my driving is like! I'd have probably got pulled over by the police AGAIN, for not having my lights on... apparently it is necessary when it's dark outside.. who would've known that?!)</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">As a last result I phoned Muma Voce. I always ring her at work, mostly regarding food and dinner. She came up with the most wonderful suggestion in the whole wide world... that we could go Christmas shopping and "grab something small" whilst we were there. PERFECT. No cooking, no washing up! And I'd been thinking about Nando's all day. (I really do need to get out more).</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">I dropped Nando's into conversation as we were walking arm in arm, with matching UGG's, on our way into town. I was very surprised when she agreed to it! I was really hoping the queue wasn't going to be too long, as I know that she gets a bit impatient (as we all do, especially when we are hungry), but then she will start projecting her thoughts to the rest of the restaurant, which is sometimes slightly cringey! But thank the Lordy we only had a ten minute wait (which was "very different to a 20 minute wait"; something Mama Voce pointed out to the waiter). We chose what we were going to have (mum got some mushroom thing.... in Nandos... which specialises in Chicken? Odd.) and I had my usual chicken pitta. Just as I was ordering, mum sprung to the counter and ordered an extra 5 hot chicken wings and coleslaw. I didn't really understand why, until Papa Voce arrived, making a very beneficial diversion from the train station!</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">Whilst we were waiting for the food, I spotted my dear friend Sheepie having a feast with her friend, and went and had a cuddle and chat with her to pass some time, (and because I love her company of course!)</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">The food finally came to our table, and I was tucking in straight away. (The Marmite bagel I'd had for breakfast hadn't filled me up all that well, so I was slowly deteriorating). All was good until Papa Voce took a bite of his second Hot Wing, and decided it was cold (luke warm). Mama Voce got onto the staff right away, and we sent the Wings back. If you order a "Hot Wing" you would expect it to be Hot, and not cold! Otherwise, they should be called Cold Wings- which are not so appealing!</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">A young waiter brought over the now hot Hot Wings to the table and apologised. Mama Voce made it clear that this was not good enough, as we had both finished our food, and all we had wanted this evening was to have a nice family dinner altogether, but we could no longer do this, as Papa Voce had to eat his after we had finished. The waiter got the Manager involved (who we did not see for a good 20 minutes). Mama Voce told Papa Voce to slow down on eating the Hot Wings, as it had to look like he was still eating them when the Manager came over, to make a point that he was eating long after we had finished....</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">The Manager eventually showed her face at table number 16 (which in the meantime, all the other waiters and waitresses had tactfully been avoiding), and in her hand was a gift voucher, entitling us to a FREE meal platter and not 5, but TEN hot wings!! This would cost more than what we even spent on our meal this evening!!</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">We now have a free McDonalds and a free Nando's to redeem, which Mama Voce has collected all in the space of one week!</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">I also just need to point out, that besides the cold (luke warm) Hot Wings, the rest of the meals were very very delish!!!!!</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><a href="http://www.riverford.co.uk/" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.riverford.co.uk/</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"> </span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><a href="http://www.nandos.co.uk/" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.nandos.co.uk/</a></span>Elliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03020067181004380262noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7624722548675088036.post-78267324451281524932012-01-04T15:01:00.000-08:002012-01-04T15:01:20.581-08:00Foxy Fashion<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white;">There may not be an immediate apparent link between politics and fashion, but when a Yorky York friend of mine purchased a certain handbag, it really got me thinking. When I first laid eyes on it, for some reason, I hate,hate, hated it!!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white;">The bag was a good size; it could fit everything into it that you would need in a handbag and more! Like the majority of the female population my handbag is always overflowing! Consisting of a purse, a bottle of water, an Aloe Vera Vaseline, a variety of pens in different colours, numerous receipts (mainly from my addiction of purchasing milky way crispy rolls from the Spar, but shhh!), a big clang of keys with a variety of key rings attached including the Sex and the City “Love” key ring that I received as a gift from my lovely Becca and Janette, and a Pooing Pig from Mr Will!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white;">The bag had a nice background colour: navy. A very neutral and versatile colour; sophisticated and very suitable for the winter months. It had a very strong, sustainable handle; very hard wearing! It had pockets inside; perfect to keep my rings in when I have to take them off for some hard hand work! So all in all a perfectly acceptable hand bag: it had everything you could want from a hand bag… so why did I hate it so much?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white;">It was imprinted with a pattern of lots of little foxes; the silhouettes of the foxes almost tessellating, but letting the navy colour project through the gaps. Ok, so the foxes are cute if you like that kind of thing… but the worst was yet to come…<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white;">A FAKE FOXE’S TAIL ATTACHED TO THE HANDLE… just hanging down.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Now, I am one that is very partial the fake fur… whether it be in coat or Gillet form. I find it very warm and snuggly, and have grown to love it after being highly influenced by the Chelsea girls (of Made in Chelsea!). But this is just something else, a step too far? A tail. Representing the tail of a fox.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white;">To me, this is just amplifying Torrie life, and supporting Fox Hunting. Something I quite despise and makes me feel rather nauseous! Some might say I am narrow minded on this subject (this could be from my very left wing upbringing and strong influences of Mama Voce), but whenever debating this topic, I just don’t think those for Fox Hunting really have much of a leg to stand on. Boxing day should be spent having a few bevvies with the fam, playing Cranium, eating all the left overs, working your way through ANOTHER tin of Quality Street and in our case, spending the evening with the lovely Lee family. Why go outside and chase foxes? It’s their Christmas too!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white;">So all in all, it wasn’t so much the bag I loathed but what it represented. Fashion in the Western culture is very much a choice and illustration of who you are as person. Whether it is symbolic of your music taste, your favourite colour and as has been reflected on, your political beliefs. Whether it is right or not, it is notorious that people judge each other on what you look like and what you wear; it is the first thing you see of a person, and if I didn’t know my Yorky York friend, I could have quite easily made an opinion on her, purely by looking at the fox tail she had hanging from her shoulder (I do love my Yorky York friend to pieces, and do not wish to offend her in the hatred of her bag!)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Although I am not this handbag’s number one thing, I do think good on my friend for wearing it with pride: If you have a belief, stand by it, don’t hide behind it!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br />
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</u></b><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">Every year for my birthday, I have had a house party, even from as young as 4 years old! It is the best way to get everyone you love under one roof!</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">When I got home from Yorky York on Friday night, Muma Voce had already started to get the house ready for my party on the Saturday.... she had bought some very cheesy decorations and lots of banners etc to ensure everyone knew that I was 21!!</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">Aunty Sue and Ray arrived in the early afternoon, and Ray and Baz (I think) put up a little marquee/gazibo thing in the back garden, which was filled with a table of alcohol and snacks! Baz made a trip to our favourite Sainsbury's and picked up the last bits of drink and food we needed! (But got Lucozade instead of Redbull?!?! You can't have jeagerbombs with lucozade, silly man!!!!)</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">Mum and Aunty Sue continues with the decorations and balloons around the house, and Jonny was being directed on how to cook our traditional, delicious, family meatball and Pasta bake (which would line our stomachs and give us sufficient energy for dancing all night long!).</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">Whilst all this was going on, I was doing a very hard job: having a day long nap! Perfect! (I thought it was in everyone's best interest to stay out of the way and let everyone get on with what they needed to do! I would have just been a hassle no doubt!)</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">I woke up to the loud vibrating of my phone... Tabbyy was ringing! She was very very exciting after purchasing a whole new outfit especially for the party! I decided it was about time I got up and did something constructive, so I thought I'd curl my hair...</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">So I took my GHD's and hair (extensions) downstairs, made myself comfy on the sofa, put Friends on Comedy Central (I still think it is better on E4), and sat curling my hair. I love the horrified look Papa Voce always makes, when I'm doing anything with my hair extensions! It's very amusing!</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">There was a knock at the door, but it was too early for the Yorkies to arrive, so I left it for someone else to answer! It was actually an AMAZING surprise!!!!</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">Lovely Janette came into the living room and we had the biggest embrace and when I turned around lovely BeccaLee was standing there, holding the most MAGNIFICENT, AMAZING, WONDERFUL, BEAUTIFUL, AMAZING, MAGNIFICENT, birthday cake I'd ever seen in my whole entire life! And it was KATY PERRY themed!!! It was seriously the most wonderful thing I have ever seen in my life.. so much attention to detail! And just like Candyfornia! AND IT WAS ALL EDIBLE!</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhymLoln1sAToQfOmuP6U5rHk4KASXmqb79FBshaZiyhvTRqhfWoWuePYlqyDSqtGtFU-0nHoxgu3tOq6wgVH96g4b5xpqC8Hp20BcF6GwSdexckpIwXtLC0LNPnlsaztUKk9LtGTldt9A/s1600/KATYPERRYCAKE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="475" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhymLoln1sAToQfOmuP6U5rHk4KASXmqb79FBshaZiyhvTRqhfWoWuePYlqyDSqtGtFU-0nHoxgu3tOq6wgVH96g4b5xpqC8Hp20BcF6GwSdexckpIwXtLC0LNPnlsaztUKk9LtGTldt9A/s640/KATYPERRYCAKE.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px; position: relative;" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">The Lee Family are incredibly famous amung the PeteyB crowd for their wonderful talent at creating cake masterpieces! These are just a few that have been made previously...</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS-DiKvfJ5gzyGxHvE5fR_Z0NENbYZVNszIbtqvDCZ5JOFplfwnrccyHr7W3uk7TtNNyPN0Zr-DuBN9ykKm-F_ip9d3NkJNZaBNOpaCZPuB1r9wvrOY_8x9K5Ac4TCpy-qChs1Qvmdoh8/s1600/cakes1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS-DiKvfJ5gzyGxHvE5fR_Z0NENbYZVNszIbtqvDCZ5JOFplfwnrccyHr7W3uk7TtNNyPN0Zr-DuBN9ykKm-F_ip9d3NkJNZaBNOpaCZPuB1r9wvrOY_8x9K5Ac4TCpy-qChs1Qvmdoh8/s320/cakes1.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; 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padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px; position: relative;" width="199" /></a></span></div><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">Now, I could be biased, but I do think my Candyfornia Cake is the best one to date! And underneath the Pink Sugary deliciousness, was (it has all been eaten now!) a nutella chocolate cake!! It was so moist and yummy and yummyyum yum!! I can't even begin to tell you just how yummy it was!!! Still to this moment, I am stunned at this stunning birthday cake!</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">After putting the birthday cake masterpiece in a special place, the lovely Lee's went home, and the Yorkies arrived!! There was lots of girly cuddling and squeeling and excited giggles, and we made our way upstairs to put our faces on and get ourselves ready!! We were very limited on time, and so the whole process was very rushed (it would have been good to have had a bit longer to get ready, but that would have meant compromising precious nap time!!)</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">BD, Miss PerryBerry and Jenny all went for the LBD (Little Black Dress)...</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I still didn't know what I was going to wear so I just threw on anything (which happened to be the pretty red dress from Arc!).<br />
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Then,the family started to arrive... first Mick, Scarlett and Livvy with a sack of very thoughtful, sweet presents, including pegs, towels and bedding (which did make me feel grown up!!).<br />
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Aunty Claire (AKA Aunty Lemon Drizzle) and Uncle John arrived shortly after, with my favourite Uncle Jamie!<br />
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Time flew by as more and more people came to the door, and I was overwhelmed with friends and family and cuddles and presents.<br />
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Aunty Claire had made me Lemon Drizzle cake (which is the best Lemon Drizzle cake you will ever, ever eat in your whole entire life, trust me!! That is why she is called Aunty Lemon Drizzle!!)<br />
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She had covered the cake in edible gold glitter and had sliced it beautifully! And everyone just loved the cake, again it was just YUM!!!<br />
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I knew the Yorkies knew how to party! And they certainly danced all night long!!! Very impressive!! Mama Voce, Aunty Sue, Fairygodmother Emma, my sister Sarie all joined in too and had a boogie for a lot of the night!! There was a lot of dancing to Nikki Minaj, and seeing my mum know all the words to Superbass really made me realise I just have the coolest mum ever!!! I really wish I'd had a video of us all dancing to this (although everyone would probably kill me if I ever posted it!!)<br />
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Uncle Jamie also had an award winning moment on the dance floor: he could practically be John Travolta (and he has even met him!) and danced to the whole of the Grease medley, TWICE, with all of the family! I have a very talented (and alcohol intoxicated) fam, that is all I can say!!<br />
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Later on in the night, I blew out more candles on my Candyfornia birthday cake (curtesy of the wonderful Janette, BeccaLee and little sis JoJo!!) and this was devoured as quickly as the Lemon Drizzle cake was!!<br />
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I then was encouraged to make a very short and embarrassing speech; I don't even remember what I said!!<br />
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Everyone started to leave and it started to wind down a bit! I spent the rest of the evening chatting and catching up with friends from school that I hadn't seen in forever!! And then cuddled up to Jonny on the sofa, where I fell asleep for a whole 3 hours, before it was morning!!<br />
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The next morning, I got into bed and snuggled with my favourite Yorkies before they left to go home, and then had a cheeky McDonalds with the family!! And me and my sister snuggled under our duvets on the sofa all day watching The Hills and other fabulous programmes.<br />
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It was the best night I could have possibly wished for! Everyone I loved and wanted to be there was there (except a special few who couldn't make it, but they were very much thought of!)</span></div></div>Elliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03020067181004380262noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7624722548675088036.post-26651750627500003862012-01-04T14:59:00.001-08:002012-01-04T14:59:25.198-08:00A Week of Birthday Celebrations (Part Two)<h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="background-color: #fb6a38; color: #7f655f; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font: normal normal bold 30px/normal Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: relative;"><br />
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</u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;">Feeling just like I did when I turned 10 years old, I woke up early and excited because today was the day that was my birthday! After a sleepless night of tossing and turning; anticipating the events of the day ahead, wishing and wishing that I had grown at least an inch or 2, and having high expectations to feel “different” now that I am officially a year older.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;">I shook Jonny to wake him up and he shot downstairs and came up with a delicious Bacon sandwich with a side of ketchup (of course!). I found a voicemail on my phone from my Nana (she had been awake from even earlier than me?!), and shouted Happy Birthday and then informed me that she wouldn’t be able to speak to me throughout the day and listed off everything she was doing, that would keep her from speaking to her favourite grandchild on such a special day: Charming!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;">Jonny presented me with a cookie cake from Millie’s Cookies, covered in red icing- my favourite!! It is probably one of the most delicious things I have eaten in the whole wide world!! I was so temped to eat it all there and then, then told myself I didn’t want to spend the rest of my birthday passed out in a Sugar Coma! So we put the cake out of reach and got dressed as Muma Voce was on her way!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;">The doorbell rang and I shooted down the stairs (I slid down the last third!), and opened the door! A wonderful surprise, as instead of Muma Voce, my Nana and her dog were stood there, my Nana’s arms flung around me before I really had a chance to take in that she was here… and not at a Doctor’s appointment with Grandad, or having tea and biscuits with her friends like she had LIED to me on the phone!! Isn’t she just so sneaky!! Then I looked outside, and there was mum helping Grandad out of the car. He is quite a heavy man, and her muscles are defs growing now she helps him get up quite a lot! A fabulous arm work out!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;">Nana and Grandad had never seen my Yorky York house before and I had to explain that students are quite messy and as we have such busy university schedules and spend a lot of time in the library studying, it can be difficult at times to ensure the washing up is all done at all times! (Thanks muma Voce for the pre-warning that they would be coming by the way!)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;">My sister had sent me a beautiful bouquet of Lilies and Roses as she couldn’t make it to Yorky York that day… and this was just the start of the gifts!!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;">My nana had brought me some UGG Boots already as my birthday and Christmas present, but she let me have them early as it is so cold in Yorky York, practically being in Scotland! So I wasn’t expecting anything from her! But then she whipped out a gift bag full of Soap and Glory things (my favourite) AND had made me a cake!! (Sneaky Nana, again!! She spoils me too much, but I am her favourite Granddaughter, and Cicely isn’t: Uncle Jamie you need to remind her of this please!!)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;">Then my mum started handing me gift after gift after gift! Lots and lots of little bits and bobs, most of which she had got during our summer holiday in France… I thought she had just gone a bit OTT on a French theme (as she really wishes she was French) and I suppose the Paris-esque theme is quite trendy at the moment! I had an Eiffel tower snow globe, an Eifell tower make up bag; she had even made me a canvas collage of Paris pictures and French words. My Aunty Sue even joined in with the French theme and got me a little jewellery dish, with an Eiffel tower pattern… How I did not guess my main present I do not know!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;">We spent the rest of the afternoon eating the feast that my mum brought with her: onion bharji’s, bacon potato skins, tortillas and dips, celebrations…. You can only imagine what deliciousness we demolished! We were chatting and laughing; mum thought it was necessary to bring up what an ugly toddler I was, and how she was embarrassed to take me out! Nana added that I was a bit of a gawky 11 year old too! Brilliant! Jonny and Tabby thought this was very amusing! Personally, I like to forget about my “gawky” 11 year old days, thank you very much!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;">When I got home, Tabby was so lovely and had tidied up the living room and set my cakes on the table with my bouquet of flowers, and all my lovely Yorky York friends arrived with even more presents and cards to open!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;">It was the most perfect, relaxed birthday (and my tummy was more than satisfied!), it was just a shame I had an exam the next day!</span></div></div>Elliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03020067181004380262noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7624722548675088036.post-37878750697655418262012-01-04T14:57:00.001-08:002012-01-04T14:57:55.318-08:00A Week of Birthday Celebrations (Part One)<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21px;">My week of birthday merriments has come to an end and so to recover I am chilling in my sister’s dressing gown and waiting to watch the Loose Women ladies. The room is filled with the remnants of the festivities; drooping pink helium balloons, 21 confetti, birthday cards filling the mantelpiece, the bookshelves, the table, the fireplace (I didn’t realise I knew so many people… Well… that so many people knew me!!) And the dining room table is covered with the lovely gifts from my wonderful friends and fam!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21px;"><br />
</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21px;">Birthday number 1<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21px;">Being at university completely makes your friendship number multiply, so it wouldn’t be fair to just celebrate your birthday with one set of friends: I needed to have a party with my Yorkies and with my Homies! So, on Saturday 10<sup>th</sup> December I had a Yorky jungle themed birthday! I wanted to dress up as something Katy Perry related (last year I dressed up as her! And only went out in a cupcake bra.. even though it was snowing!! I really don’t know what I was thinking!! But it was fun!!) Katy Perry has a very wonderful song called “Peacock” and she dressed up as a fabulous peacock on her tour “California Dreams”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21px;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21px;">I was very lucky to come across a Peacock pattern top in a charity shop, whilst shopping with my Mum and my Aunty Sue! It was a few sizes too big but a few stitches from my talented muma Voce and it was brilliant!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21px;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: x-small;">The next morning, the boys went to the pub to watch the football, whilst me and Tabby cleaned the house... we want to point out that this won't be happening again... we are women of the 2000's not the 1940's. </span></div></td></tr>
</tbody></table>Elliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03020067181004380262noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7624722548675088036.post-367101759900260042012-01-04T14:48:00.000-08:002012-01-04T14:48:10.602-08:00Reminiscent of the Summer Ball...<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white;">The festive season is by far one of my favourite favourite fav times of the year! I’m not sure if it’s because my birthday is so close to Christmas, so it is one exciting event after another, but there is defs something about it which just makes me really happy and like an excitable child!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white;">My good friend Mr Will, keeps advertising York st John’s Winter Ball!! Advertised with having Michael Buble (well, almost!! Someone pretending to be him and singing his songs!), REAL reindeer, AND snow!! (Probably fake snow, but snow all the same!) Perfect for getting into the Christmas spirit I think and I really wanted to go…<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Sadly, many of my Yorky York friends were being Grinches and not feeling it! But, Mr Will and MissPerryBerry are working it!! And I have dragged Jonny to come too! Perfect! I have decided to go exactly a week before the ball and with a busy week ahead, didn’t leave much time to put effort into an outfit! This is a very different experience to the preparation and efforts gone into our summer ball…. However as it was summer, there was no excuse for unshaven legs, and pasty white skin… hours and hours were spent in MissPerryBerry’s room, styling our hair, playing with make-up, parading around in our dresses to make sure that they were just right… and my most favourite thing…. TAN TAN TANNING. Every evening we were making a trip to St Moriz…Well St Moriz was taking a trip to our skin!! Standing on the chair in her room, near enough in the nude, whilst the little Olive took the mit and covered us from head to toe in a bronzing mousse…. We became so attached to our good friend St Moriz that there was a stage where I didn’t think I could ever go back to being my real skin colour again! (My mum was getting quite worried about how much tan I was getting through, and my step-dad kept telling me no matter how much fake tan I put on, I was never going to be Beyonce!)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">We arrived at the summer ball, and we greeted by some bouncer's on the gate of the University!! We knew then, that this was the whole shabang!! We felt very VIP, flashing our wristbands to show we could come in, and we did not even anticipate the excitement that was yet to come... first of all the beautiful entrance... perfect for posing and pretending to be celebrities...</span> </span><br />
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</div></div>Elliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03020067181004380262noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7624722548675088036.post-28968265694784895332012-01-04T14:40:00.000-08:002012-01-04T14:40:11.620-08:00Leading up to my 21st: Finding an outfit (26/11/11)<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">With my 21st birthday approaching closer, and my mum making a visit to my Yorky York, we decided it was the perfect opportunity to go shopping for an outfit. My mum is the one person who I know will be completely honest with me, which I always think I want, until I actually have to hear it! Every shopping trip,we both mentally prepare ourselves for a potential row in a shop, where we both completely disagree, turn our backs on each other, walk in opposite directions, and then both feel silly and guilty so run back to each other! For an event like my 21st, we could both feel the pressure to find something suitable. I wanted sophisticated, not slutty. Something that wasn't too crazy and didn't make you think it was all about me! My friends have been asking me what kind of dress I am going to wear to my party, and I have been giving the same answer: "It depends how streamline I am when it comes to my party, if I have stayed away from the chocolate addiction, then perhaps something more fitted; if I have given in to my need for sugar and endorphins, then defs something floaty,to disguise the added layer of warmth around my tummy!". With the party being just weeks away, and the milky way crispy rolls somehow making a daily appearance, I felt the latter of the options would be best!</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">Anyway, my lovely mother and I made our way to the shopping central of York, and tried to make some kind of plan of our limited time to find the outfit. (She had arrived at my house at 11'o'clock, with her train being at 3, thinking this would be plenty of time. I told her otherwise!!!). We also hadn't taken into account the hoards of people that had come from all over England, no, all over the WORLD,to come to the Christmas market in York! On this day, we both realised how much we hate people! Trying to walk with any speed, well actually, trying to walk and make any progress whatsoever was the most difficult task you could imagine, with people and children and screaming babies all at a halt, looking at personalised wooden bookmarks and deciding whether to have their Cadbury's Hot Chocolate with a splash of Bailey's or perhaps even Brandy. Decisions, decisions! But decisions we certainly did not have time for!</span></span> <br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">We got away from the hustle and bustle of the Christmas market, escaping to one of my favourite streets for shops: Coney Street. We headed straight to Zara, where we picked up almost every item in the store, holding it against us and saying "oooh, look at this" and "oooh, isn't this so lovely", playing the game where "if we had all the money in the world we would buy...this, this and this!". We found a few pretty dresses, some I knew wouldn't suit me but I picked them up anyway! And I also picked up some beautiful black lace shorts and a floral lace top that I'd had my eye on for a little while! After queueing for what felt like a lifetime, we were finally in the changing rooms, trying on the assortment of dresses: a cream lacey dress with an open back... pretty but not at all comfortable... also a big issue with whether a bra could be worn or not! The next dress was a black one, with a netted tutu skirt thing... I'm perhaps not edgy enough to wear this number... nor wanting the Madonna look of the 80's (I'd already used this look when going through my gothy, emo-y days at the age of 14! and it is something that I defs did not want to return to...). I then put on a very under-stated t-shirt dress, with an image of a 1940's woman on it. Loved the t-shirt but it did nothing for me, which my mum was very quick to point out! (this is where the honesty, however helpful it was, was not what I wanted to hear... my mother is starting to become a very abrupt middle-aged woman, sometimes I love her for it, but not when I don't want it aimed at me!!) The dresses were all a no, no! Ahh yess!! The beautiful shorts and the gorgeous top... I had these left to try on! I put the shorts on- they fitted perfectly! (Although I was a little disheartened that I had to wear the size M instead of the size S.... I'm going to pretend it's because I've got a bottom like J-Lo, and not because of all those cheeky Milky Ways that snuck their way down my oesophagus!) Anyway, the shorts were a big hit, and the top was also a winner (although, my mum kindly pointed out, that as the top had a bit of an open back, it was advisable to have my back waxed before wearing it!... Being hairy is one of the lovely features of having the Ginger genes... and one that we often have a laugh about!!) I had a bit of extra money this month (from selling, selling, selling on Ebay!), and so my mum encouraged me to buy them... perhaps not for my 21st (as it wasn't a dress), but I had a plethora of ideas in my mind of just how versatile both items were, for example the shorts would be perfect with tights and boots and one of my oversized, cable knit, bargain jumpers from Primarni! I was very happy with my purchase! But still no dress....</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;" /><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">A bargain at only £24.99, and it was gorgeous! I loved the colour and the cut out lace detail. My mum even said it was flattering! I didn't buy it though, as I thought I'd wait to see what Topshop had to offer...</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Topshop was a disappointment... that is all I am going to say!</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">We were tired of shopping, and the business of York, so we decided to go back to my house, so we could enjoy our last hour together before mi madre had to get on the train back to dull PeteyB.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">We decided that I would have a good time at my party regardless of what I was wearing! I loved my Zara purchases! And the lovely little red lacey dress was in Ark, so I could always go back when the people at the Christmas market had taken a chill pill!</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">And the anticipated row was non-existent!! We made a good team that day :).</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;"><br />
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