A Cat's Autumn

Autumn has finally arrived in London now. The weather has definitely gotten much colder than it was. I never used to like Autumn that much but looking at the colours this year I think it is so pretty. Also the fact that my birthday is in autumn/winter helps me to enjoy this beautiful season even more! :)

I love to be able to walk along and kick the leaves when no ones looking :) (hehe).

Yesterday, as the clocks went back and I was sitting at home a little bored; My parents and I decided to go down to a local woods near to where we live to walk our dogs; Barney and Teddy. The colours were ever so pretty although they were nowhere near as striking as the beautiful pictures that Amanda from www.amandaatkins.blogspot.com took recently. The pictures really made me feel the autumn spirit. :)

Another sign that autumn has arrived is the fact that my cat Kit has hibernated inside our house. When ever winter is near my pets just decide to stay indoors, which is ever so cute but they need to go outdoors sometimes! :)

Kit mainly sleeps on his chair, which he takes over in our conservatory :)

I have decided that the dress that I bought the other day for the party I am attending this week, is actually going to be worn to my 18th birthday celebrations with my friends instead. This is because it is such a pretty dress that I think may be slightly to dressy to wear to a house party :s (haha!) I have decided to take a trip to our local shopping centre with my mum soon so I am hoping to spy a dress I like for the party then :)

I am really looking forward to Halloween this year but the slight down side is the fact that in England Halloween is not treated as a light hearted fun celebration; it always consists of some local yobs destroying private property which is not what Halloween is about at all! It would be so nice if Halloween was more like it is in America. The decorations I have seen in films and pictures always looks superb! So amazing! :) When I was younger I used to love a film by 'Disney' known as 'Halloween Town'. I don't know if anyone else has heard or seen it but it is truly such a magical film, which really reminds me of Disney Land and when I saw the film I just wanted to go there! :) The costumes, make-up and scenery is just brilliant!
Another Halloween film that I enjoy watching around this time of year is 'Hocus Pocus'. I remember I used to be so scared of this film when I was little but now it is so funny!

I hope everyone is enjoying their autumn season! :)

Have a nice week everyone! :)

~ Kirsty x

Dress, shoes and half term! :)

Well it is now half term (which I am glad to announce) I'm looking forward to this break as I've got quite a few things to do. :)

On Monday I'm going to my friend's house, which is always fun and on Thursday I'm off to a party, which should be really good as well.
In fact yesterday I went to Lakeside with Miss Madison and I bought a new outfit to wear at the party. I am actually in love with my new dress and shoes :) They are soooo pretty :) Good old H+M never lets me down on the dress front!

I can't actually wait for this party on Thursday, it should be soooo much fun! :)

Also on Halloween, America is bringing some of it's most wonderful Halloween traditions over to Carnaby Street in London which will be brilliant. I think I'll dress up as a witch :)
I'm going there with Madison to take part in all of the Halloween treats. I can't wait! :D

I hope everyone is having a lovely weekend and hope they have a fabulous week as well :)

~ Kirsty x

Camden Town

Hi everyone!

Sorry about not posting a blog entry recently. I've been really busy so I have quite a lot to write about :)

College is very busy as normal. I have soooooo much coursework but I am hoping that it is all ok and that I will get it all done!

The Friday before last my friends and I all went to Wildwoods, which is such a lovely restaurant in my home town. I would definitely recommend it. It serves a range of different dishes from pasta to pizza, from fish courses to hamburgers :) I had this really really nice chicken and pasta dish which was so lovely. In fact most of my friends had this apart from the boys who just had to comment on the fact that we had all ordered the same! But it wasn't on purpose (haha)

After we all went back to Sophie's house which was really funny. She has this little games room with music and stuff and so it was a lot of fun :)

(Seriously what we make the boys do! lol)

On Staurday, after taking a trip to the Anglia Ruskin University open day; Madison and I went to Romford and then she came back to my house. It was a totally random night which consisted of a lot of laughs and a lot of the computer. We took some very random pictures (which you have probably seen on Madzy's blog) It was a totally fabulouzo night! :)

(Madison trying to swish her hair! :)

Then the Friday just gone we all decided to go out to the cinema to see 'Zombieland'. I didn't really think the film was that great but the night was so good. I sat next to Madison and I accidentally elbowed her, so I apologized and for some reason said 'Oh sorry for emailing you!' As a response Madi and I started to laugh so hard :) The amount of popcorn that I got thrown at me by the boys, I mean seriously! haha. The night made me laugh lots. I just kept giggling.

After we all went back to Alan's house in his spider infested shed. Luckily I'm not too bad with spiders but some of my friends were running around :)

So moving on to yesterday... Camden was the location but because the tube is all messed up at the moment because of all the work that they have been doing for about 2 years now (and it's still not done!) Madzy and I had to take a slight detour involving 3 trains, but for some reason this proved to be much quicker than the normal way we go :)

When we got there Madison started to film to show all of you bloggers the atmosphere that Camden Town holds. We wanted to go and find a great little vintage shop that we had been in before. It's called 'Berty and Gerty's' and we met the co-owner (oh la la). I bought a new purse which I just love and a hat which I have in grey and wear a lot so thought that I would buy it in black. It's a lovely beret with a bow on the front. I just love it! Madison bought a really cute little bangle! It's soooooo pretty :)

It was such a fabulous day! We then went back to Madison's house for the evening. We went on the computer for quite a lot of the night and listened to music (which had to involve karaoke ;) Then we had pizza, pasta and garlic bread which was majorly yummy!

The pictures from the day are below...

Thanks for a great day Madison! :)

I hope everyone is well and having a lovely October!

Love Kirsty x

It's a girl! Congratulations! :)

This week, on Wednesday I was pleased to find out that a family friend has just had a baby girl. So I am pleased to announce the new arrival of baby Esme! I was so excited to here that Sian had finally had her daughter and I can't wait to see her!

As a matter of fact Sophie and I had planned to go to Lakeside on Wednesday (in Sophie's car :), so whilst shopping and buying yet more clothes :s :) we took a detour to H + M so that I could buy Esme, Sian and Carl some presents on the birth of their daughter. We loved looking around at all the baby clothes and toys, but after a while I finally decided what to get her: a pink 'Hello Kitty' dress, a pink 'Hello Kitty' cardigan and a little baby bunny :)

(Sorry the picture is a bit messy, my mum had all of her art stuff out! haha)

Work experience wasn't that great this week. I was a bit bored but a paramedic bought me a 'Kit Kat', which was sooo lovely of him :)

On Friday Ambra, Sophie and I decided to go to the cinema to see Fame, in the evening. We even bought our tickets, but after deciding whether we should see that or 'The invention of lying' we opted for the latter. I actually really enjoyed it. It wasn't the best film but it was quite funny and it had Jennifer Garner in it who is so funny and such a sweet actress :) Ricky Gervais is also hilarious! :)

We even saw some people from college who Sophie was able to give a lift home in her car as well. It was one of those nights where the film might not have been fabulous but the night was brilliant! I got the giggles so much and then all of my Aero bubbles fell out in the bottom of my bag (hahahaha) to my friends amusement. ;)

We are planning to go to see Fame on Tuesday night after college because it is 'cheap Tuesday' at Vue cinemas. I can't wait to see it now! :D

Hope everyone is having a good weekend!

~ Kirsty x

Coldified

Hi everyone,

I'm so sorry I haven't been up dating my blog recently, its just I've had so much coursework to do. I'm going to try and update my blog every weekend for the time being :)




(Me, Sav + Leia at college) :)


Quite a lot has happened in this long week. Apart from college I am pleased to announce that one of my best friends Sophie past her driving test!! :) I'm so happy for her, she's wanted to drive pretty much since I've known her and now she can! Well done Scophs! ;)

Sophie only lives over the road from me and its great that she is kind enough to drive me around :) On the day of her well kept secret test, I got a text from her saying she had past and she said she would drive me home from college. In the end we had a VERY large detour around most of Essex hehe. She drove to Lakeside and we went through a McDonald's drive through (has to be done when people pass their tests in our local area ;) She even treated me to a Mcflury! :D
(Soph + Dawn at few months ago in Soph's car- Mo ;)

On Friday I had my work experience again. I actually really enjoyed it this week. I even met a 'big shot' of the NHS and they know my name! I got invited to the nurse's tea party that was happening to raise money for the Macmillan's nursing cancer scheme.

Normally I have been finishing my work experience really late, but this week they said I could go early. Sophie had originally said that she was going to pick me up (to which I was very grateful) but because I finished early I began to walk back because she was still at college. However, she still came to pick me up (to my delight) and then we decided to go to Romford (a good shopping place near to where we live) in her black KA :)

I bought a lovely pair of grey leggings and a long black strappy top from H +M (always useful to have) I also got a really pretty red long shirt from New Look but that is going to have to go back because the hole can not be repaired which is a shame :(

Soph bought a nice shirt and some other items from H + M where she works.

We also went for a long drive after shopping as well which was so much fun!


I went to London with Madison and Debra yesterday afternoon where we sat in St. James Park and ate muffins and mint choc. chip ice cream (my favourite!) :)
It was fun but Madison wasn't very well, as she had a rotten cold and now I seem to have picked up a cold that has been going around my college so I feel a bit yucky today...

Is it just me or is any one else looking forward to Christmas? I can't wait and it's my 18th birthday soon as well, which I am excited about! I love going Christmas shopping. I love the atmosphere of the decorations and being able to snuggle up inside a warm coat, gloves, scarf and hat (I own a lot of beret's by the way ;)

Anyway I hope everyone is well and are having a nice week!

Love from,

~ Kirsty x

Back to blogging and 'Land Girls' review

Hi everyone!

I'm so sorry I haven't updated my blog this week, I just went back to college and I've been very busy.

College has been quite good although I'm already beginning to feel stressed with my work but I'm sure it will sort itself out if I work at it.

On Friday I had my second day at the elderly hospital I am undertaking my work experience. It was much better than last week and I learnt so many more skills. It was really helpful actually! I'm glad it was better this week :)

I remember a few weeks ago I said I would do a review on 'Land Girls' for you all. It was so fantastic that I really hope they make some more episodes. I think all you vintage girls (and boys) out there would really really enjoy it. The costumes were gorgeous and all the characters were completely different which made it so much more interesting.
The first episode started off with two new land girls starting a new post. Nancy is the city girl who does not want to be there and Joyce was a sweet little one who everybody loves. They arrive at the farm where they will be living for years and are introduced to farmer Finch, his son Billy, the land lady Esther, her little boy and two other land girls: sisters Annie and Bea.
Annie's husband is away fighting and Bea has lied about her age to join up so she can escape her father's strict ways. Billy is in love with Bea the whole way through the series but in the first episode Bea meets an American soldier who woes her and leaves her pregnant causing difficulties for her the whole way through. Nancy is such a funny character... On her first night she sneaks into the owner's house to have a bath. It's a good job the nasty owners husband is nice because he manages to cover for her so his wife will never know. However, this causes an affair to take place as they both fall in love with each other.
Whilst working on the land Joyce begins to miss her husband who is in the RAF. Once out delivering goods one day she bumps into a stranger who is in fact her husband. She is so happy to see him but when she finds out he has deserted she persuades him to go back, but it is not quite as simple as it is made out to be.
After finding out Bea is pregnant, Annie does her best to help her troubled sister but this does not mean she has know problems of her own. She seems to have married her husband to escape her father but the couple may not have been in the right place when they were married. She receives a telegram one day telling her that her husband has been killed in action and she is very upset. One day whilst working on the farm Annie meets a man whose mother is seriously ill. She does her best to help him and his mother but she sadly passes away. But 3 months later the two begin to see more of each other and Annie begins to experience feelings I don't think she ever felt about her husband. Once being with this new man she then receives a complete shock when she realises her husband is still alive but he is very badly hurt.
Billy decides that he wants to help Bea with her new baby and goes ahead to propose to her; but when he does this she goes into labour! :)
The couple do end up together and they do get married which was so unbelievably cute! :)
Nancy and the Lord continue their affair but to the shock of the audience he is killed in a shooting, where he saves Annie's new boyfriend from the mad game keeper who has been causing trouble the whole way through the series. This was so sad to watch, I just did not expect it to happen, then again they were planning to run away together which probably showed that it would not happen, it would be much to simple wouldn't it?
The story does have a nice ending though. Annie's husband comes back but he is seriously burnt but I'm not sure whether they actually get back together. I hope they do. Nancy decides to go home on emotional leave, due to the pain of being in the same place as where she spent all this time with the Lord. The ending is almost the beginning... Two new girls join up who are very like the characters of Joyce and Nancy and the story almost begins again.

(It really was very very good, but I have missed several points out, so I'm sorry about that. It was much better than I explained it to be :s hehe)

Today when looking for a specific episode of 'One Tree Hill', I found this trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdzzn1LZC4w
Apparently they did a 1940s style episode, which looks so good! :) I hope I get to watch it at some stage. What a good idea to adapt the characters into!

I almost forgot to mention the lovely Sab from http://thereisnosuchthingasperfect.blogspot.com/, for giving me a fantastic blog award! Her blog was one of the first I ever found when I had just started blogging land and she is such a sweet girl with such a good taste in music! Her blog is full of her day to day notes on life and is really interesting to read! Thank you Sab! :)
I will definitely be passing this award onto some other great bloggers in my next post :)

I had such a brilliant time round Madison's house last night! We listened to 'The Beatles' and watched Derren Brown which was so clever I don't even understand! Thanks Madison! :)

Anyway I'll leave you on that note...


Have a lovely week everyone and I'll speak to you all soon,


~ Kirsty x

Lets go back to the 1980's :)

This week has been rather busy! On Thursday I went back to college to collect my new time table. It was great to see my form again as they are my Health and Social Care class as well and I haven't seen them all in ages! I was so happy to find out that I am in Madison's English Language class. I have never been in any classes with her and so I can't wait to actually see her more at college! :)
On Friday I started my work experience at an elderly people's hospital. I didn't enjoy it as much as my other placements which involved working with children. But the doctor there was really nice and he showed me all different methods of how to go about treating a person. I've got 9 more Fridays at this placement so I have decided it doesn't really matter if I don't enjoy it as much as the other placements because I know I want to work with children as hopefully a paediatric nurse! :)

In the evening it was lovely to go and have a meal with my best friends (-Debra who couldn't make it :() We went to 'Frankie and Bennie's' and had a fabulous meal. We all had such a laugh. I can't believe I said to the waiter 'Can I have a burger please?' At this remark my friends started to laugh and I realised I hadn't actually specified what type out of the 12 I would like (Ohh dear! haha).

So yesterday I had yet another busy day. I had driving first thing which actually went surprisingly well. The last few lessons hadn't been going so well but it was quite fun this time :)
After I met Miss Madison in Romford to achieve our sneaky plan at getting our hair curled. It worked for half our hair but not the rest :s This was all for the surprise 80's party that we were attending in the evening in a cute little church hall in Chelmsford :)

When we got to the party I had such a fabulouzo time! Madzy went as 'Desperately Seeking Susan' and I went as a girl from 'Fame'. I've never been to a surprise birthday party before and the excitement of it all was so amazing! When Karen arrived we all yelled surprise and I don't think she could quite believe it. It was so lovely. As usual Tracy made her super cakes and the food their was all lovely. Some people had made such an effort in what they were wearing! Madison's mum even had her original dress from the 1980's, from when she was 17/18! :)

Surprise Karen! :)

Madz and Tracy (Tracy's original dress from the 1980's when she was 17/18) :)Tracy's yummy cakes! :pMadison and I were the first on the dance floor as per usual. Two words= 'The Robot' ;)

After many hours of dancing to classic 80's tunes e.g. Bon jovi and 'Girls just wanna have fun', we made our way home from Chelmsford in the dark. Tracy was very good a navigating since the sat nav was quite slow :)

It was such a fun night and has made me really want to watch '13 going on 30' which I think I shall do later today.

I'm back at college tomorrow and I have English Language first with Madison :) Should be fun!

Hope everyone is having a fabulozo weekend and have a great week to come! :)

Love Kirsty x