What Time is it? (Summertime)

(It's our vacation, What time is it? Party time - That's right, say it loud ) etc etc etc

That's riiiighhhtt.....It's the time of the year when I have had no other song stuck in my head but  the fabulous opening number to HSM2 - and embarrassingly enough I didn't even have to google those lyrics.

Oh yeah, and guess what else...I'm back!! (again).

After putting my blog on hiatus for exams, I'm attempting (again) to start blogging regularly again - let's see how long I last!

Like every year, I'm determined to make this summer the best one yet, and so I've borrowed 14 books from school (12 of which I have to read for my english literature a2 coursework, but they're all rather smashing so I don't mind), and I've made myself a promise to do something productive every day (and get a bit of a tan, but that seems the least unlikely).

I recently saw a video by Alfie Deyes entitled "25 Things To Do This Summer", and whilst I'm not sure I could commit do doing something like a book for my summer memories (you all know my commitment issues..), I was inspired, and I've decided that I'm going to post more regularly on this blog, especially things that I've done this summer. Like every year, I've got loads planned in my head and I'm honestly interested to see how many of them I actually do!!

Whilst I'm not going to turn this into a space where I document my everyday doings (- as you are probably aware my relationship with my blog is a bit on-off), if I do anything which I feel is interesting enough to share with you I'll whack it on here so some of you can acknowledge that I do have the teeniest tiniest of social life - and it may even act as an incentive for me to do something exciting and different!

So, to start off with I've got some snaps from last weekend, when I went on an adventure with my beautiful friends Emma and Nat and managed to get some photos of the beautiful sunsets - I hope you like them.

What about you, have you got anything interesting or exciting planned this summer?

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Festival Fun

I live in the south coast of England, and I am very lucky with where I live, due to the fact that I live really close to the New Forest, and if I ever wanted to go to the beach, it's just a 20 minute drive away.

A little heart for all you lovely readers ❤ 

Last weekend was the annual Bournemouth Air Festival, which is a lovely weekend of planes, entertainment, attempting to get a tan and getting a lovely sunburn! I feel like I should give you a little warning here: this post is very picture heavy. 

Here are a few of the best pictures I took during the day time I thought I should share with you lovely readers. I've sorted them in an order which isn't chronological, but it sort of makes sense (I've basically grouped the planes together, you'll get the idea). I did this because over the four days, quite a lot of the planes flew more than once with different weather and lighting conditions etc, so I basically put all the pictures of the Eurofighter together, all the Red Arrow pictures together etc...

So, without further ado, here are some pictures I took of the aircraft at the air festival!

If any of you are wondering, from the top to the bottom, the planes are: the battle of britain memorial flight (including the lancaster and spitfires), then the sea vixen, then the eurofighter (which is incredibly loud!), and then the colourful one is Miss Demeanour. After that, of course, is my personal favourite, the red arrows! I've mainly used the pictures of the red arrows from their performance on the Saturday, due to the lovely clear blue sky (and so the pictures were better!), but they flew on the Thursday, Friday and the Saturday. The final picture is of a plane during the Night Air segment of the festival, and the night before (when my camera battery unfortunately died :( ), it actually had fireworks on it! I think that this plane is from O Brien's Flying Circus, but I'm not 100% sure).

Unfortunately, on the last day the Vulcan had a fuel leak so it couldn't fly, which I was super sad about because I'm a bit of a plane geek, and it's probably the last year it'll be flying due to funding issues :( But on the bright side, I also took some random pictures of the picturesque South Coast and random objects/animals for you!

 

I named the seagull on the right Marcel...because he got all the birds :')
If you don't understand don't worry, my jokes are never any good.

We spotted where Kodaline was staying before their concert so I quickly snapped these pictures whilst they were watching the planes, Vinny's (the drummer) face makes me smile every time I see it in the second picture, he was so excited when the planes came!

Last year, a local radio station decided to hold two concerts in the evening,with tickets priced at only £3.50 - a bloody bargain if you ask me! We didn't find out about it until the week before, and we managed to grab ourselves some tickets for the second concert, which was amazing! I saw Ben Montague, Ryan O'Shaughnessy, Matt Cardle, The Loveable Rogues, Lawson and Scouting For Girls! But the night before (which we couldn't grab any tickets for), we went down to the pub and because of how close it was to the open stage area, we could just about see the artists (nice one dad!), we also saw Amelia Lily, Honey Ryder, Newton Faulkner and Rizzle Kicks!

Although this year they doubled the ticket price (still good though!), the line up was just as super duper. On the Friday there was Diana Vickers, Stooshe, Lucy Spraggan, Shane Filan, The Feeling and Blue! On the Saturday night, I was really REALLY lucky because there were quite a few of my favourite singers/bands of ALL TIME! The line-up was Neon Jungle, Newton Faulkner, The Loveable Rogues, Lisa Stansfield, and Kodaline. Here are a few pictures of each of the acts. Unfortunately on the Friday night my camera battery died halfway through the concert and I had no spare, so I had to switch to my phone camera, so that's why there is a sudden decrease in quality. Sorry. Because of this, I put all the Friday night photos on one collage so that the quality doesn't appear as bad :) Enjoy!

Top Row L-R: Diana Vickers, Stooshe, Lucy Spraggan, Shane Filan
Middle Row: The Feeling
Bottom Row: Blue

Neon Jungle

Newton Faulkner

The Loveable Rogues

Lisa Stansfield

Kodaline

 I loved every minute of the Bournemouth Air Festival this year, and will definitely be going again next year (26th-31st August 2014!), you can find all the information about this here. The only advice I would give you that isn't given on this website is that it would be a better idea to go to a beach other than the stretch between Bournemouth and Boscombe pier, as this is absolutely PACKED. We went to a beach near a place called Southbourne, mainly because it's where my friend has a beach hut, but also because it was only a 30 minute walk from Boscombe pier, but also because the beach was nearly empty but you could still see all the planes!

Thank you for reading - apologies for how long it was, I didn't mean for it to be!

P.S. I'm feeling super snazzy & sophisticated blogging from the beach ;)

P.P.S. Happy September!

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Stuff I Heard by Accident that are actually Pretty Darn Good Quotes

A photo that I took yesterday evening down at the beach. I love how it looks like a what I call (oops - Miranda moment!) a "postcard picture". It reminds me of something that would be on a painting.

Yesterday I shared with you my enlightenment to the world of reality shows. Believe it or not, my post wasn't actually intended to be all about Made in Chelsea, I just managed to waffle the post out to way over 800 words, so decided to split the blog post into two parts: yesterdays post, and this one!

So you can read the whole broken alarm clock waffle in yesterday's blog post (the reason why I'm linking it so much is because I want you to click it ;) ) but you don't have to if you don't want to. All ya need to know is that I had some unexpected time, so I decided to try a new show that seems to be "the hype" at the moment - Made in Chelsea. I put the TV on E4, but MIC wasn't due to start for another 5 minutes or so. It was in fact on this show, called "One Tree Hill", that I was planning to write yesterday's blog post on, because it had so many good quotes that I felt I should share with you. The episode was the last one ever to air, so I suppose that they were all quotes summarising what the characters had learnt throughout the series, but as I've never watched it before, I didn't know the back-stories to the characters and why they said what they did, I just thought they were pretty darn good quotes! Soo, without further ado, here are the quotes! (If you feel it necessary, I give you permission to do a little cheeky drumroll)

"It's the oldest story in the world. One day you're 17 and planning for ‘someday’. And then quietly and without you really ever noticing, someday is today and then someday is yesterday and this is your life."

"We spend so much time wanting, pursuing, wishing, but ambition is good. Chasing things with integrity is good. Dreaming..."

"If you had a friend you may never see again, what would you say? If you could do one last thing for someone you loved, what would it be? Say it. Do it. Don't wait. Nothing lasts forever."

"Make a wish and place it in your heart. Anything you want, everything you want.

Do you have it? Good. Now believe it can come true.

You never know where the next miracle's gonna come from.

The next memory. The next smile. The next wish come true. 

But if you believe that it's right around the corner,

And you open your heart and mind to the possibility of it, to the certainty of it

You just might get the thing you've been wishing for."

"The world is full of magic ... you just have to believe in it."

"So make your wish...do you have it?

Good. Now believe in it. 

With ALL of you heart."

So there you have it - some stuff I heard by accident that are actually pretty darn good quotes! I hope you liked them and feel like you can relate to them as much as me :)

Thank you!

P.S. I apologise for doing quite a few "Life-lesson-important-and-serious" posts around the same time, but I felt that this is something that I should share with you. I also feel I should say that the reasons why I put a picture I took down the beach in this post are:

a) I like this picture

b) I like going to the beach when I need time to think, and these quotations require some serious thinking

c) I didn't know what other picture I should put in this post :)

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