Whilst everyone is working and I'm at home, I've got two furry beings keeping me company!
Bella, the pooch, has got so much love and follows me around everywhere. Mischief, the ginge, doesn't like people too much, but will still follow me and Bella around! It's like having two little kiddies to keep me company during the day!
Bella lets me dress her up...
She might not quite be a lap dog, but she does the trick
This is what they do, they'll wait for me to go out and play and as soon as I come back in, they're right there chasing after me!
I've been back in Wellington for 5 days now, and it's honestly like I've never left. Nothing has changed, places are still the same. Some people are missing or have changed, but it's definitely one of the weirdest feelings I've ever had.
It's sooo awesome and so much fun meeting up with friends and family, but it's just such a weird concept considering I haven't seen majority of them for 2-3 years!
Anyhoo, my first week has consisted of....
A coffee date with my gorgeous Meg!
Buying Kiwi treats that I've been longing for!
Seeing my best friend for the first time in nearly 3 years! It was like we'd only just seen each other last week!
Going up to the Mount Vic lookout for the first time!
Hanging out with the parental units!
And going to Island Bay for the first time too!
Bring on the next 5 weeks full of fun and adventures!
I met my lovely friend Mel at the school where I worked last year. Like me, she's another Kiwi indulging in London and what the world has to offer!
The weekend before I left for New Zealand was our last weekend together, as she arrives back in New Zealand the day I leave to go back to London! We will see each other in the future I'm certain of it!
We spent the better part of the day in the sun, cycling around Hyde Park. It was so lush!
Hyde Park looking a bit desert-like
Melly having fun!!!
A Sculpture right by the Serpentine.
Sometimes I wonder how things like this can be art - especially with a title like that!
Climbing the structure!
The best jump shot!
The refreshing cider that was a cooling-down necessity
The refreshing cider that was a cooling-down necessity
Have a safe trip home Melly and I'll see you soon!!!
Over the weekend I was extremely grateful for the amazing sunshine we had here in London. Two days in a row - the joke's on us that that was our summer come and gone!
Me and Ceirios enjoyed a lovely picnic featuring the amazing pork sammies, wine and trashy magazines...
And I loved wearing my new-old £1 shorts off eBay!
Then on Sunday I came back from Sunday Roast at my good friend's house, and sat in the park again enjoying some more sun and wine!
It was the perfect way to start and end a weekend, despite a few little bumps in between!
I'm also super grateful for the support, encouragement and help from some lovely people who I work with when I've been super freaking stressed these last few weeks!
I'm a pretty big butterfly fan, especially of Monarch butterflies! So it was awesome to have some caterpillars delivered to our class in a wee jar, with some special food, and when they went into a chrysalis, we transferred them to a net and then watched them hatch sometime later! Tomorrow is the day we'll go for a walk with them and set them free into the wild!
This little fatty
Oh Keith, he's just such a flirt!
Deliciousness
I've been making a real effort to be healthy lately. Like going for a run. And this girl just does not run. But it's been working, I've been feeling great, and have been rewarding myself with delicious, healthy, home cooked meals!
Beanstalks
In 10 days, our class beanstalks have sky rocketed! They're nearly touching the roof! And have just started to flower!! Fingers crossed for some beans!!!
The final countdown
Well it is the first countdown, but certainly won't be the last of my trips back to New Zealand! There's only 25 more sleeps until I hop on a plane, and 27 until I'm back in my lovely hometown, Wellington!
This weeks Turn-Up Song!
This song is perfect for summer! It's off Pitch Perfect and just just a delicious song! Here's Open Season by High Highs
(you can click the link if the youtube box doesn't appear!)
- It being the first day of me migraine free in a week. Fingers crossed it stays that way!
- Knowing that this time, on the 24th of July, I'll be back in my hometown, with my family, for the first time in over 2 years
Me and my two sisters at Christmas 2010 - our last Christmas altogether as a family!
- Going for a run. I did make myself, especially seen as how the idea is always great in my head but realistically doesn't always make it, and pushing myself just that little bit more brings such a choice feeling of achievement
- Watching caterpillars hatch out of their chrysalis' and also learning that chrysalis' and cocoons are two different things - one for caterpillars and one for moths!
We're going to have 5 caterpillars. I think I'll call them - Ronnie, Lassie, Gepetto, Alfalfa, and Bug, ,
There's a wee 'market' down the road from my house each Saturday. There's an array of organic, homemade, delicious goodness to be bought; however, these pork sammies are definitely the best £4 you'll ever spend in your life.
Miss fix-it
So I lost my balance when I was standing on my bed, grabbed onto my blind, then this happened...
So I tied it up with wool in the interim...
And then on purchasing a new blind from Argos (keeping in mind that it was only £7 so I'm not actually that bothered), it turns out that the difference between inches and centimeters actually really does matter.
Massive egg moment
Tunisian Crochet
My mum mentioned Tunisian Crochet to me the other week when we were skyping, so then and there I bought a set of hooks off eBay for a measly £3! I tried it out last night and it's actually pretty simple! It's essentially a cross between knitting and crocheting! Pretty bon choice if you ask me!
'Tis the season...
For caterpillars at our school! We got them delivered in little pots that had special food at the bottom. There were 5 caterpillars, who merrily eat their food, wiggle on up to the top where they make the cocoon, and then it's up to an adult with extremely steady hands to transfer them into their net, where we'll be able to see them hatch! You give them sugar water on flowers and they eat that for a bit, and then you can release them back into the wild! Choice!
This week's clip
Oh my, this is soooo hilarious! A friend from work posted it onto my facebook the other day and it's absolute gold! Have a watch!
