Party like it's your birthday...

Hey hey :)

So I am now officially writing to you as a 20-year-old ! woop woop ! No longer a silly, imature teenager but a fully-grown adult lady living on her own in another country with a job offer and everything - huzzah!!!

Don't get too excited though cause I really haven't changed a jot - i still love bubbles, i still laugh everytime I see a pheasant running ( and yes, I'm chuckling out loud right now thinking about it) and I still get overly excited whenever I see kinder surprises.

So in order to celebrate the big 2-0 we went out twice! On the thursday evening we went out for pizza and then to The Royal in time for the pub quiz ( a thursday tradition we've had for some months now). We never win but we've steadily improved since we started and I have no doubt that by the time the others have left they'll have won at least once! It was really, really fun and a great way to celebrate with friends :)

This not actually a picture from my birthday - its just another night we went out for dinner - but once again I don't have any photographic evidence and this is basically the same so whatever. It's of Jess, Terry and I :)

Picture from the same night:  Kate, Lorna, Ruth and Pria - all looking stunning :)

On the saturday night I woke up to my flatmate having got up, on her weekend, to make me pancakes which was an awesome start to the day ! I had work but then afterwards we got all dolled up and headed into town with friends and people from work for a birthday/leaving do :)

So all up it was a pretty amazing way to shake of those pesky teen years even though I missed all of you back home and wish I could have shared the celebrations with you as well :)

xx

Remember, remember the 5th of November

Hi everyone :)

So I went to my first proper Bonfire Night :)  I know we went to one when I was here in '98 but I'm pretty sure that wasn't a proper one as I don't remember it really being that big and I was 5 - so it should've seemed like it was the size of the sun or something by comparison !

But anyway, we didn't actually go on the monday 5th but on the saturday night they held a Guy Fawkes celebration on St. Martins commons and my friends Pria and Terry and I decided to brave the cold weather and go. It had been raining fairly solidly all day and we were a bit concerned that it wouldn't go ahead but we checked before we set out and decided to go and it was fantastic. We'd seen the bonfire being built over the previous couple of weeks and knew it was going to be massive but it was so different lit up and it was amazing!

[Sorry I don't have access to any of the photos from it at the moment but I'll try and get them and I'll do an edit when I do so you can see :) ]

The Bonfire itself was probably the size of our entire family room and about 11/2 stories high. On the top of it they'd built a castle and hung a dummy from a rope outside of it - a bit grim, but also very cool :)

There were loads of stalls set up selling mulled wine and food and all the usual things and they had fire jugglers and fire eaters that performed and were really good. We wandered about and had a look at everything and ate delcious food and drank wine and generally had a nice time and then they had a fireworks display to finish the night. The fireworks were way better than I expected considering it was just put on my a parish in Jersey and I love fireworks anyway so it was a really nice way to end the evening. After the fireworks we walked home and as we were walking we could see the fireworks that some of the houses and the other parishes were setting off and we watched them as we went.

Sorry again for the lack of photos in what was a fairly visual-based event but they were taken on someone elses camera and I didnt think to get them...but I'll try and update ASAP :)

xx toodle-pip

This is Halloween...

Hey hey :)

So as most of you know Halloween is pretty much my favourite holiday of all and so this year we decided to throw a halloween party at our house and dress up and make cookies and all the usual jazz :)

I figure most of you will have at some point witnessed the beautiful frenzy of me organising fancy dress constumes but if not you should know that I go somewhat mental. I love dressing up - always have, always will - I trace it back to renting disney outfits from the toy library as a child and the (almost) excessive number of fancy dress parties I went to in my formative years. So it should come as no suprise that I took control of the situation and told everybody in no uncertain terms that if they didn't get dressed up properly they wouldn't be allowed in. To my delight everyone put in a mammoth effort (possibly out of respect or maybe just because there's very little else to do of a wednesday night in jersey and we had beer) and it was fantastic :)

So here we are in all our glory...


Jess as a Zombie chav

 

Lorna as the Mad Hatter

Terry as Jack Skellington

Ruth as a bat

Kate as a Roy Lichtenstein painting



Me as a calaveras (mexican sugar skull)

Mariska as a butterfly and Pria as Corpse Bride