Blogust #31: Last Blogust Post

So this is it. The end of an era. I feel a bit emotional about saying goodbye to this little series. It's literally been my world for a whole 31 days and that is a long freaking time, guys! It's been a bit of a rollarcoaster with the down days, good days, boring days and days in which I forgot to post but we've done it! I have been daily blogging for a whole month! That's actually scary! Anyway, I hope you enjoyed it as I certainally have!

On Tuesday, I will return to my normal blogging ways, posting about little things in my life and stuff. I feel like this month has made me improve so much on my blog writing skills. Writing to you guys just feels so natural now which I find absolutely fantastic! 

So especially for you guys, here is a sneak peak of my next blog post...

It's underway and in writing so that'll be up soon! Literally cannot wait!

Anyway, back to my blogust day! It's been work, tidying, organising and planning. I've particually ticked everything off my to-do list and that makes me happy. So because I was in a good mood and felt good, I took a selfie. (Just don't ask)

I feel like I'll be at a lost without telling you guys about my day-to-day life every night. This literally turned into my online diary for a month and I now feel so emotionally tied. However, this can't last forever so this is goodbye to my blogust series, goodbye to daily blogging and goodbye to you guys for now!

Thank you for the support!

See ya on the flip side,

Holly x  

Blogust #30: Working hard and being prepared

Heyya guys! My second last blogust post is here (crying). I don't think I'm quite ready to saying goodbye to this daily blogging thing but it was only meant to be short term and my life is wayyyyy too boring to do this all the time.

Anyway, today is been one of those uneventful days in which I spend start on a laptop, highlighting books and writing notes. College life is fast approaching and I'm not sure how I feel about it. It's going to be such a different environment to what I'm used even though I know it so well. It's going to be so weird.  

Today was also the first day in which I have properly used my new laptop and I love it. It's so quick. The sound is amazing. I just love it. (Plus it works which is kinda a good thing :P)

I've also been trying to get a bit organised. I have a lot of stuff to do before starting college on Thursday including tidying my room, sorting my washing, sorting out college stuff and completing work. I'm getting a bit stressed about it all. I already feel like I need a holiday but that's not going to happen. 

Anyway, I'll see you all tomorrow in my last ever blogust post!

See ya on the flip side,

Holly x

Blogust #29: Another shopping trip!

Hello everyone! Day 29 of Blogust is here and I am actually writing this on a laptop because today, I finally got my own ready to start college with. Its a snazzy macbook air. Have any of you guys got MacBooks? Comment something cool about them in the comments that I may not know.

(New baby)

Anyway, today I went shopping. I know. I know. This is starting to look like I go shopping every single day but i promise you, its a one off for me to go so much. It's simply to make sure I have everything I could possibly need to start college with and that includes boarding house snacks. Also, everything I'm buying will be put into my back to school post next week so it's all really for your entertainment :P

(Sneak peak)

While I was shopping, I also stopped for lunch in the town centre Cafe Nero. This Cafe is situated on the top floor of a waterstones which means few people know where it is so often its completely empty. There I got a panini, hot chocolate and passionfruit and orange drink. It was rather lovely. (I feel so british writing that ;))

The lovely Olivia over at Boho and Brownies nominated me for the Liebster Blog award again today. As I have already done my post and nominations, I thought I'd answer her questions in today's Blogust post. So here we are...

{1} What fashion trend do you wish would return?
Uggs. Why aren't they no longer accepted? Someone answer me this question.

{2} What are your guilty pleasures?
Chocolate. Humous. One Direction. Big Brother.

{3} Whats your favourite season?
Autumn. I love the smells, colours, clothing and festivals/events.

{4} What is your most prized possession?
My new laptop i think.

{5} If you could eat anything for the rest of your life, what would it be?
I don't think I could eat just one thing for the rest of my life because I'd get sick of it so easily which would suck as I would have to keep eating it.

{6} What would be your dream job?
A mixture of a flat water kayaking coach, film producer and primary school teacher.

{7} What do you see yourself doing in 10 years time?
Hopefully settling down and getting married while tracking down my first teaching job.

{8} What would be your number on blogging tip?
Plan and think ahead. It's helping me all the time if I know what I'm doing for my next post or what I have to plan for.

{9} Whats your favourite post that you've written so far?
That's tricky to say. I quite liked my Writing Process Tag post but I've liked a few of my Blogust posts too.

{10} Whats your earliest memory?
Tipping chocolate pudding and cream over my wendy house.

{11} What is your proudest achievement to date?
There's two. Completely my 23 mile paddle with 6 miles at the beginning being completed by a run and my GCSE results.

Well thats it for another Blogust post. I feel like I'm starting to count down to the final one now, which is rather scary. Just think, I've been daily blogging for a WHOLE month!
Anyway, goodnight and talk tomorrow.
See ya on the flip side,
Holly x

Blogust #28: Visiting family friends and trip into Oxford

Heyya guys! Sorry for another late one but we got back rather late last night and I was completely knackered. Anyway, onto the blogpost.

The day started at a decent time with a trip off into Oxfordshire to see some family friends who had recently moved house. We've been friends with them for a long time (probably since we were tiny) and used to holiday together and see each other regularly.

It was nice to see them again after so long and chill out really.

After lunch, we went on a exploration of the area before quickly catching a bus to take us into Oxford. There we wandered about, shopped a little bit and then stopped to grab a ice cream/sorbet and a drink in a cute little cafe on a street corner. I can't quite remember what it's called but it's away from all the main shops by a street or so.

There's only three blogust posts left now guys! I'm getting emotional! 

Anyway, talk later. Love you!

See ya on the flip side,

Holly x

Blogust #27: Successful shopping trip!

Heyyya guys! If you've been reading my past blogposts, you would know that little under a week ago I had a bit of failure when it came to shopping for college suits. Today it was different. Yay! I went in good, old H&M and came out less than an hour later with two skirt suits (one black, one grey) and three shirts (one white, one light blue, one blue and white striped).

I literally couldn't be happier.

Also on my shopping trip, I brought lots of stationary and stuff for my dorm room ready for the start of term and my back to school blogpost coming up next week. 

I'm getting so excited about going back to normal blogging now. I feel like I've gained a lot of experience from the last month of daily blogging and I can't wait to see how my blogging has evolved. I also can't wait to see what's in store with this whole blogging thing. Every follow, comment makes me really happy because it shows that people like what I'm doing and I couldn't be more grateful.

Anyway, I'm rambling so goodnight!

See ya on the flip side, 

Holly x

Blogust #26: Catching up on work

Heyya guys! So today has been rather uninteresting again. It's getting to the point in the month where nothing exciting is happening because my priority is getting ready for school to start. Obviously the start of this month was rather exciting because I was here, there, everywhere on my travels but because I opted out of Scotland because of my operation, little is happening at the end. I do apologise for that but I'm kinda hoping my weird personality is showing through and semi keeping you guys entertained! 

 

Last night, I finished the great gatsby which mean I can finally crack on and highlight and annotate quotes. ( really good book towards the end, don't give up)

I've also had to continue my psychology note taking which appears to be taking forever for such a small, skinny book. At least the stuff inside is interesting enough for me to not get bored quickly. 

(Checky snapchat story screenshot thing)

Anyway, tomorrow me, a friend and my family are heading into town to do a college/school shopping trip so hopefully I'll have some photos and interesting stories to tell you guys! Stay tuned for that ;). All the stationary and stuff I buy for college and the boarding house i will be writing up a post about to publish next week.

See ya on the flip side,

Holly x 

Blogust #25: staying up late at night reading and forgetting to blog

Heyya guys and welcome to another day in rainy Britain. I know this blogpost is late but I got hooked on a book and it was too late by the time I finished. I know you've all been there ;)

Yesterday was really uninteresting. I spent the whole day highlighting and annotating psychology books and watching youtube videos because I'm still behind. 

However, I do have some semi interesting stuff to discuss with you guys!

It's getting to the point in my summer where I'm really missing being in a boat and racing. I've been doing a lot of reminiscing and over planning because of this. Fingers crossed, I'll be back in a boat soon.

Recently, I've been also thinking a bit more about what I've been eating and trying to stick to a healthy but energy packed diet. This means I've been trying to eat more fruit and veg than I normally do.

What's been happening in your lives? Are you healthy eating obsessed like me? What do you enjoy snacking on? Tell me in the comments.

See ya on the flip side,

Holly x

Blogust #24: Sunday = Roast Dinner Day

Heyya guys! Guess what day it is? Wednesday? Correct. I'm joking! It's Sunday! You probably all know that actually but hayho.

If you are British, you will know that Sunday is classed as roast dinner day where you, clearly, have a good old roast dinner with all the trimmings. The best thing about being British I think. I love a good roast. 

We also had some of my family down from Oxfordshire. We haven't properly send them for a long time so catch-up was well over due even if they aren't anything like us.

I starting to dawn on me that college is getting closer and closer and I have so much to do before. I'm getting a bit stressed. I have nothing to wear. I feel behind on my college work. I feel like I know nothing about what I need or anything. I'm a bit lost and it's approaching so quick.

I also need to sort out my boat before the start of training which is the week after the start of term. It takes up a lot of time so I'm a bit worried about that too.

Everything seems to be catching up on me which isn't the best for my mood. I guess that's just the way things go sometimes.

Anyway, I'm rambling so goodnight one and all and speak tomorrow.

See ya on the flip side,

Holly x

Blogust #23: Failed Shopping Trip

Hey guys! So today's been a bit of a miserable, tiring day really. As I'm going to college and the uniform is suits and stuff, I've had to attempt to buy lots of smart stuff.

Issue is I'm short and a bit skinny.

In other words, things either look too big or make me look too short. Help. 

I went shopping today to try and solve this problem. I went to a big marks and Spencer's and found only a blouse that looked nice. Skirts could have probably fit another person in. Trousers made me look like a dwarf. A actual nightmare...

It's starting to stress me out how unprepared I am for the start of the year. I have zero suitable bottoms but plenty of suitable tops. I'm not a skinny Minnie and can fit even in size tens sometimes but somehow a size eight was too big for me in marks and there was no size sixs.

Okay, stop ranting. Here's a picture of a hot chocolate....

Anyway, good night my friends!

See ya on the flip side,

Holly x

Blogust #22: Work, Work and more work!

Heyya guys! I'm gunna apologise now for such a boring blog post but I have literally done nothing of interest today and that's the way my day planned out.

I realised today that school starts in less than two weeks and I'm still yet to finish my college work for the start of term so I've spent a couple of hours today reading, annotating and writing ready for the start of term. I'm currently prepping to start English and Psychology but I'm also taking Art and Drama and Theatre Studies next year. 

Also today I've prepping paperwork for the start of training. This includes planning training routes, working out training dates and organising emails and stuff. Although some people would find this boring, I do it completely voluntary and love it so there we go.

Anyway, that's it for today apart from a quick thank you to F from the fence of stars (I'll link this when I get on a laptop) for nominating me for another award. It should be up tomorrow and I'll hold to that promise. Goodnight.

See ya on the flip side,

Holly x

Blogust #21: GCSE results day..

Guys, I'm sorry I've been a bad blogging and didn't post this yesterday but it's early in the morning and in some place in the world, it's still yesterday so yeah, let's pretend ;) 

Anyway, yesterday was a bit of a scary day for me. My GCSE results day. For those who may not know what this is, it's a series of important exams that British sixteen year olds sit at the end of their school year. 

I was kinda scaried about what I was gunna get because this year wasn't the best year for me as I has been off school since March due to illness and I was behind on all my work when it came up to the exams. 

Drum roll please.......

I PASSED ALL OF THEM!!!!

Yay!!! 

So to celebrate, I went to a supermarket and brought stationary for school to start again. I have such a fun life :P

Nice bit of product placement there even though no sponsorship. 

But the real celebration was for us to get a Chinese takeaway which was very yummy and tasty and lovely. There's something nice about getting a good takeaway.

It's been feeling very autumny today. The sky's are dark throughout the day and the night is coming earlier. The wind is certainly picking up and it's getting rather cold really.

I love autumn so I'm rather excited about this. Bring it on!

Anyway, here's what I brought earlier.

(Great photography there, holly, good job)

This is all for using in book annotations and stuff for my AS levels to start. 

Right, signing off now! Talk to you later!

See ya on the flip side,

Holly x

Blogust #20: Shopping Trip and not much else

Heyya! So it Wednesday 20th August which means a lot of things. Number one) only 11 days left to the Blogust series. Sad face. (However that does mean I can return to normal blogging posts which I'm excited for and already have planned out so extra bonus point). Number two) it's great British bake off day!!! Best day of the week! Whoop! 

Anyway, about my day. Nothing much happened. End of post....

Nah I'm joking! 

Today I spent the whole day lounging in sweatpants watching tv, fiddling on the old faithful laptop and being plain old lazy. It's getting towards the start of the school year so I'm starting to get stressed about work and college work etc. Also I have an added pressure of running my dad's school canoe squad behind the scenes (incidentally I'm on it) and organising it so that involves a bit of stress when it comes to organising sign up and getting things ready for the start of training. Today, that is what I have been doing (interesting I know).

However, I did end up getting abit excited by the prospect of a FOOD shopping trip with the lovely mumma. It may have only been a small trip but we got all the essentials for this evening which included cheese and ben and jerrys and fruit pots and chocolate and humorous and sweets . Food just excites me really so here's some photos of food (sorry, not sorry)....

 As I mentioned abovey, today is a Wednesday meaning great British bakeoff day. For those who may not know what that is, it's a tv programme here in good old blighty where people compete in baking challenges to be named top baker. It's completed over a series and us British love it.

So my whole family sat down at eight this evenin armed with ben and jerrys tubs and spoons, to watch bakeoff and we had great fun. End of story.

(Once again, so exciting) 

Anyway, tomorrow is a dreaded day for me as it is results day. Ewwww. This means I'll be getting my results from my GCSEs so keep your fingers crossed guys! I might share them with you tomorrow, I don't know. But for now it is nighttime so good night my friends!

See ya on the flip side,

Holly x

Blogust #19: Being Lazy, More Youtube Catch-up and College Work

Hello! Today has been such a lazy day but guess what? I've taken about five pictures today!! Yay!!! I don't know whether you guys are happy about that but I certainly am! :P

I've literally spent the whole day watching youtube videos because after my last catch-up, it's been about a week so more have been added but I'm getting there! 

While I've been watching these videos, I've also been getting on with some of the college work I was set to do over the summer. This includes reading, highlighting and note taking which is so long but it better be worth it!

I ended the day today with a nice long relaxing bath with bubbles and youtube and warm water. It was so chilled and it also meant I could soak off my bandages. I'm going to attempt to not wear them from now on in and hopefully I won't get annoyed by it stinging or anything.

Anyway, that's it for today! So I'll speak to you tomorrow!

See ya on the flip side,

Holly x

Blogust #18: Afternoon tea, dinner out and useless photographer!

Hello everyone! Welcome to another blogust post in the lovely month of August! Today has been quite good health wise! I've been up all day (yay!) and pottering about even though my hip is still playing up! (I feel like a old granny typing that haha!) 

We had a couple of friends around for afternoon tea and a bit of a catch-up. The daughter, Molly, recently spent a month(!!!) away in Tanzania helping out and safaring. She raised all the money herself (£3,600 worth) so that she could go and she seemed to have really cool time! 

Later that evening, we went out for dinner at another friends house where we spent hours at the dinner table nattering away and it was brilliant. Great to be out about for a change.

I also feel really lame writing up this blog post today as I took no photos what so ever even though I did a lot! I literally only just realized that I hadn't as I'm about to write this. For some reason, blogust is towards the back of my mind at the moment and I keep trying to push it forwards so I do create more exciting things and post cool pictures again. I feel terrible because these posts are becoming so half decent and I really want them to be good! I promise you I will sort it out!

Anyway, it's ticking on so goodnight one and all!

See ya on the flip side,

Holly x

Blogust #16 + #17: Getting there and new blog post!

Heyya guys! So guess what I didn't do before falling asleep yet again? Post the new blogust post even though I mentioned it at the bottom of my new blog post! God damn it! Anyway, it's still early morning so I'm gunna pretend it's still yesterday and therefore everything's cool!

Thankfully, recovery is starting to pick up a bit more and I'm starting to be more mobile and have even stayed out of bed for a whole day which is a massive bonus! This meant I could spend some time with this gorgeous puppy!

Look at it's cute, adorable little face! 

Anyway, as you've probably realised, I managed to finally get on that old, faithful laptop and get the flipping Liebster Award post done and posted! Yay! So if you haven't seen that already, go check it out and tell me what you think! It took a rather long time really! 

Okay, i promise you all that I will posting the blogust post later tonight again but before then I have to say goodbye for a couple of hours!

See ya on the flip side,

Holly x

Blogust #15: lazy blogger and recovery update

Heyy! Sorry but this is gunna be a rubbish post because yesterday, yet again, I did nothing but lay in bed, sleeping and eating. This is probably why I didn't upload this yesterday too because I was absolutely exhausted too. 

My recovery is starting to pick up but I'm still hurting a bit and my body is definitely not working properly yet. 

However, a doggy visitor cheered up my day. We are looking after a Labrador for over a week and she is the sweetest thing ever. Dogs always never fail to cheer me up.

Sadly, I have no photos for this post because I had nothing interesting to take a photo of. I assure my posts should start to pick up soon as my recovery improves.

Anyway, see you later!

Holly x

Blogust #14: Leaving Hospital and Present from the Boyfriend

Heyy a everyone! Recovering from the opp is seeming rather slow to me. I know it was only yesterday but I feel like I should be recovering quicker. Maybe this is because this is my first major opp, I don't know.

I was discharged from hospital early this morning and was home by 10 where I had a lovely present waiting for me.

The boyfriend had some how managed to organise a bunch of flowers to be delivered to my door and they now are pride of place opposite me. I havethe loveliest boyfriend and I feel so lucky.

Anyway, I'm getting tired now so I'm gunna sign off. Sorry these posts are getting quite short but I have very little energy to make them any longer and I'm doing very little to make them interesting.

See ya on the flip side,

Holly x

Blogust #13: Hospital update

Heyy guys! Just thought I'd let you know how things are going in the hospital surrounding my operation. It was earlier than I expected so unfortunately I wasn't able to complete the Leibster award post (so annoyed).

The opp went fine but in a bit of pain in places such as ribs, shoulders and stomach. I'm getting sleepy easily but have managed to finish a box of malteasers that Helen brought me at about four.

Anyway, I'm gunna sign off now but talk tomorrow.

See ya on the flip side,

Holly x

Blogust #12: Visiting Family, Youtube Catchup and Relaxing Bath!

Good Evening! Sorry about this being another late one! I feel like I'm getting a bit lazy with these blog posts now and I'm really sad about it! I need to think of a way to spice them up a bit and get me excited again. I have all of my September blogging plan sorted, it's just the Blogust series that I'm struggling with. I need ideas guys!!!!

Anyway, tomorrow morning I am going into Hospital to get my appendix removed and staying the night so I don't really know how interesting tomorrows blogpost will be because I'm either going to be waiting around, sleeping or recovering. Little else will be happening. When I'm waiting around/recovering, I will be posting (and writing) my The Liebester Award post which I'm dead excited about. That WILL be up tomorrow. I will be making no more broken promises.

Todays been a bit of a weird one really. I've been trying to do as much as possible before my opp so that I don't have to worry about it when I'm recovering the days/weeks after. I travelled up with my mum to visit family in Oxfordshire. It's nice to see a lot of them because we have become quite a close knit family over the last couple of years and we all get on well.

I'm not sure when the next time that I'll be able to see them all so I did it today as my mum was going up anyway.

When I got home later that day, I literally ate dinner and then locked myself in my room to catch up on the hundreds of youtube videos that I haven't been able to watch in the past week. I don't think I'm even halfway through but when its people you enjoy watching, its not much of a hardship.

I'm subscribed to a few daily vloggers and if I miss a few vlogs I have to watch them all before I watch the most recent one. I don't know whether that's just me or not(?!?) but it stresses me out otherwise. However, it does mean I have to spend time catching up and because I haven't watched for a week, this means a lot of videos.

Because my opp is tomorrow, I thought tonight would be the perfect opportunity to have a nice long bubble bath. I love bubble baths especially when I get them on the right temperature. It's such a brilliant time to watch a film or tv show or just chill out and I always find it perfect for de-stressing. I had a lot of bubble baths during my exams and they did really work.

I tend to put a lot of bubble mixture stuff into my bath to make it extra bubblerly but I can't buy cheap stuff because it tends to dry out my skin. I have to be careful with how often I have them or my parents would be out of pocket.

I hope you enjoyed this post but for me, its bedtime so goodnight my friends and I'll hopefully talk to you all tomorrow.

See ya on the flipside,

Holly x

Blogust #11: Packing Up, Final Swim and Journey home

Hello, everyone! Today we left Belgium and returned home through a boring car journey. I am currently sat exhausted at home so I'm gunna keep this post short so that I can go and sleep. However, there should be two posts up tomorrow including the Liebster Award post which will contain answers to 33 questions so it will be rather long.

Anyway, these are the photos from my day..

So that was my day in photos! I hope you enjoyed it and I'm sorry its so short but I'm rather tired so anything I could write about today would probably make no sense so its probably better to keep it short.

Anyway, I will sign off the night and talk to you all tomorrow! Tell me what you did today in the comments!

See ya on the flip side,

Holly x