Showing posts with label New Year. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Year. Show all posts

Goodbye 2017!

2017 is coming to a close, here we are on the last day of the year. You BET I can't fucking wait to make a joke about not having showered since last year, though I shower so infrequently I could make that joke now and mean 2016.

Last year I wrote a bit of a similar spiel to cover my year, to have a long ass list of what I did that year forever. It's nothing of any quality, but it's a nice thing to have to look back at.



January. I opened this year by standing at Point Hill in Greenwich overlooking central London and the famous London NYE fireworks. They looked kinda tiny from that far away, London is a giant ass place. Amy and I went back to my new house, drank some prosecco and fell asleep at like 2am, it was clearly quite wild. A few days later I started my new job, as a social media and website intern (later becoming assistant) for a charity based in East London. I was all alone in this big city living with people I didn't know then, but who went on to become like family to me. The rest of January was spent finding my feet in this new city I lived in. And at a conference in Morecambe, where it promptly pissed down. Whilst there I met and befriended so many people who are big parts of my life now, and also met Laura who I already knew through the wonderful world of Twitter, despite the two of us having 0 clue we were on the same internship scheme. Wild. The most important part of January was going to the Tate Modern for the first time. My favourite gallery, my favourite spot to have a coffee and take in the London skyline. I miss that place already.

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2016 in review: Instagram Best Nine


It might be a 2016 year in review in mid-January, but hey my blog schedule is busy between INTERVIEWED, X amount of time a Londoner and travel posts!

Let's look back at my instagram best nine, which showcased some of my favourite moments of the year, even if it featured the least staged and edited of my pictures! I work hard on posting nice shots of landscapes and cities to instagram, but ho hey the ones of silly old me are the ones my friends like.

1) Greg Rutherford 

I dressed as Greg Rutherford this Halloween, as part of my 'Inspiring Gingers Through Time' Halloween 2016 theme. Greg himself approved of it, as did his wife Suzy, cheers for the support guys!

This costume involved a lot of masking tape, fabric tape and iron on transfer paper. It came out surprisingly well for a costume made of the shittest materials possible.

2) The dab

I posted a whole spiel with this insta about how this picture came out, for the shorter, not as a fun version, I dabbed as Amy told me to and the club photographer kept shouting 'NO DABBING'

3) Stockholm Snow Boy

We visited Stockholm in November, whilst the city was experiencing some of the worst snow it had experienced in November for 100 years. We had a bit of a photoshoot in the snow using my trusty Calvin the Camera.

4) Vincent Van Gogh

My other 'Inspiring Ginger Through Time' costume was Vincent Van Gogh. This was a fun costume to make as it consisted entirely of things I already owned, including the sunflower.

5) S C O U S E  P O W E R 

Taken the same night as the dab. Couldn't not pose with some SCOUSE POWER graffiti. Especially now that I'm the token Northerner in any circles I mix in in London.

6) Graduation

Yes, this is a genuinely nice one with people I love and all, back to me dressed as other gingers. 

7) Obi-Wan Kenobi

I slept little and sewed lots for a long time resulting in this cosplay, it's the best I've ever done. Fae made the armour and she KILLED IT.

8) Oslo Idiot

Surprise, surprise, I wore a black t-shirt, black jeans and black trainers and posed like a right dick somewhere publicly.

9) Liverpool

My favourite view in the city and one of my favourite places on Earth. I love Liverpool so much, I do miss it a lot being over 200 miles away. It does make me sad thinking that it'll have changed so much the next time I go back, though Liverpool will always be what I consider home.

Even moreso as my actual hometown is too small for anyone down here to know, with Liverpool being the closest city, it's easier to say that. I did live there for 2 years, and I consider it more a hometown than my actual hometown.

And that's my top 9 for the year. See you in 2018 for 2017's!


Goodbye 2016!

It might be a few days late to post a look back at 2016, but it's been a mighty busy couple of days, I haven't had a chance to look back at the last few minutes let alone look back at the entire year. 2016 has been a rollercoaster of a year, there's been major disappointments, disasters, and losses for the world. In my personal life, I've overcome some obstacles, hit major milestones and been at the highest and lowest points I think I've ever been at.

I started 2016 with a 6am shift at ASDA. I remember going to bed on New Year's Day at 12:10am. I didn't start it very well. Then someone in the canteen was talking about how they think Sia is stupid. It really didn't start well.

January was a bit of a whirlwind, I was in the first exam/coursework period of my third and final year of my degree. I had so much coursework, it was probably the hardest exam period of the entire degree. I averaged out at a 2:1 at this point, that's mega good, but I personally was disappointed as I had been averaging on a strong first grade, and my results which dragged me down were in a module I very much struggled in, and one I recognised I didn't try hard enough in. After this, I had a week off alongside my course and flatmates, we drank, we shopped, we partied, it was a great time. 

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2016



2016 IS UPON US! Except I'm typing this part on December 31st 2015, so no, it isn't (just yet)

2015 has been a great year, it's been a big year, a lot has happened yet at the same time I feel like nothing has! I was #blessed with a new baby niece born 1 day before my 20th birthday, I got a new job, I moved out of a flat with some of my best friends, then moved into a new flat with a (mostly) different set of friends, amongst other things!

 However, rather than a reflection on 2015, this will be a look forward onto 2016. Every year, my friend Amy and I say 'this will be our year!', and I think the statement rings true more than ever before this year. I have so much planned and so much to be excited about, and I'm looking forward to documenting it all here, my own wedge of the internet that I treat as a diary.

And all of my plans are up until mid-July, I have zero things set in stone from then on, and instead of being daunting, it is the most liberating thing I have ever felt!

Let's dive into my New Year's Resolutions instead!


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