A Sincere Apology

It has been manic since moving here. I am in love with the beach and the chilled out artistic lifestyle. London can wait a couple of years. I am home. I will post piccars soon and tell you about some of the quirky things that happen here. At some point I'll invest in a camera!

Much love!

xoxo

We're packing to leave come on let's go, no no not you! Books are always first you know!

Subtle Disney reference there. I'll let you work out which movie. Books were indeed the first thing a packed for university. Unfortunately everything didn't tumble into one suitcase like it did in the movie (another clue for you). I'm a little worried about where I'm going to put it all. everything I've packed is an essential... I promise.

muchos love!

xoxo

Footwear for Frosty Mornings.

I have inherited from my mother two principle weaknesses in finance, the first is shoes and the second, handbags. Unfortunately I have not a great deal of cash in the old bank account to satisfy these two expensive passions. I have however bought a couple of pairs to take with me to university and make may appearance at early morning lectures a little less shocking. I am still on the search for the perfect brogues though. Too many women in the UK have my size and too few brogues are being produced!

Secondly I wish to further delight you with a new discovery I have made. To be precise, the recent collaboration between UGG and Jimmy Choo, perhaps one of the most exciting partnerships I have come across this year. Just check out these beautiful boots! I don’t care what people say, Uggs are absolutely the most comfortable footwear I will probably ever wear. Be it a little clumsy looking, you certainly can’t go wrong in a pair of these.

They're so b e a u tiful!!!

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Things English Literature has taught me.

Life is pretty hectic at the moment, I enclose my deepest apologies for the lackage of blogage. I am off to university a week today so my days are filled with the hustle and bustle of working, reading, packing and saying farewells to beloved friends. I enclose a post I wrote a couple of weeks ago, its a little rough around the ages (I was experimenting really). As I am going off to study Law I regret I will not have the time to spend reading the classics that I have come to love, here are a couple of things I have learnt along the way though:

Never throw all your hopes and dreams, heart and soul into a case in the civil court.

Bleak House, Charles Dickens

Don’t fall in love with your best friend and then marry someone else for his money. The consequences will always fall on the children.

Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

Books, no matter how fantastic they are, are just stories. The minute you try and place that drama in your own life, drama will take place and it won’t have a positive effect!

Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen

Feigning death was always going to be a risky affair.

Romeo and Julliet,William Shakespeare

NEVER shoot down an Albatross.

Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Coleridge

The job of creating life by means of science was never intended for mankind. We are far too selfish to play God.

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

and one I cannot take any credit for in the slightest;

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a young man in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife."

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

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If you go down to the woods today..

you may find me walking my German Shepherd.

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Sometimes I dream of being a flower girl

I'm not a particularly artistic person, but I do have an undying love for beautiful things. Usually I buy them (when they are affordable), I never make them. When my friend came home from a festival this summer with a beautiful floral head wreath I just had to have one myself. So we took a trip to Hobbycraft and created what follows. I loved mine so much I made another.

I made this one as a gift. I love the colours.

So simple to make! Just time consuming..

Equipment

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I'm thinking of emigrating to a warm country..

Here are the last photos I'm posting of Turkey. I've just realised I've not posted many of the beaches.. you'll just have to use your imagination. They were stunning, the water was like a swimming pool and so crystal clear you could see the fish swimming around you. I miss the heat, England is slowly getting colder, damper and duller as autumn closes in.

The tourist area was full of sleezy bars. This made me giggle.

I wish this outfit was mine, it is in fact my friend, Hannah's. She got her beautiful Maxi-dress of ASOS.com, here.

This photo does not give this place justice. We discovered one of the most beautiful beaches in the world just a 15 min bus ride away.

Standard evening: Drinks, Phase 10 (such an amazing game) then out to the cheesy bars.

Dem Bar was the local's bar in the area. The live music each night was beautiful.

The BEST sandwich in the world. Cucumbers, Cheese, Onion, and Tomatos.

This made us laugh. Casual dogs settle down for a night on the beach.

The shop outside our apartment, Alibaba's!

These shops were everywhere, walls of 'genuine fakes'. The merchants tried to get us to go in claiming it was a 'turkish Primark', I'm not sure if they realised they were insulting their clothes more than advertising.

I love this.

A ground floor flat in our apartment block had all this semi-feral cats. New born kittens!

Turkish dancing at the Dem Bar.

Another stunning beach we visited at the Police Academy.

Flurry of flavour and colour.

Here's the first batch of photos from my trip to Turkey. The weather was insanely hot, we were out and about in temperatures of 45 degrees celsius everyday. The food out there is absolutely amazing, everything is so colourful, and the flavours so fresh. I took so many photos of the beautiful edibles that I've dedicated a single post to it.

The local weekly market.

I'm a fan of the chilli. People were buying these by the bag load.

I know this isn't food, it just amused me to no end just how far the Twilight fever has spread.

No idea what the black things are, fried bananas maybe?

The Turks make this cheese in particular which looks a little like goats cheese and has the same consistency yet its make from cows milk and tastes creamy. I'm not sure how else to describe it but I'm definitely endeavouring to find something like it in the UK.

I didn't managed to snap a photo of the native spirit Raki either (I'm hoping that's how its spelt). Its a spirit close in flavour to that of Sambuca, aniseed; yet instead of being sweet and sticky its sour and almost dry tasting.

xoxo

I'm going away on holiday for a week. Heres a 'heads up' as I plan to photo blog a little again like i did over Easter this year. Yes! For sun, sea and sand, good food and trashy music! xoxo

All for wool and wool for all!

Popped into town today for a bit of shopping. It was mostly mid-season items and the ends of sales so all I ended up buying was an oversized shirt. Altogether it probably wasn't the most successful shopping trip in the world (especially after a mini 'tiff' with the lady in WHSmith), however, I did achieve one thing, I'm beginning to look forward to A/W 10.

I love autumn and winter clothes; the big snuggly woolen jumpers, warm scarves, boots, trench coats and bodywarmers. This year's selection of capes are growing on me, albeit I think I'll be feeling very courageous on the day I purchase and wear one, they are little too close to ponchos for my liking, and I am NEVER going there again.

Another thing I love about autumn are the colours, I love deep scarlet reds and yellows the shade of mustard, all the colours of the leaves falling in the breeze off the naked trees and the deeper, darker nights when I like to lie curled up inside my duvet warm and cosy.

There are too many things to miss about summer, by far my favourite season. In autumn and winter, all is not lost, there are still so many things to look forward to. I'm not quite ready to let go yet though..

xoxo