Last weekend at home

Hi, know I've not written in another age, but I've been busy once again. Busy with my volunteering job, getting use to contact lenses and making future plans at uni. Also I've been reading The Black Dagger Brotherhood and watching Heroes. So yeah, almost a total waste of another summer. Not been much in the mood to write though, but I've to say in reading BDB I've realized that I can fix the problems I've in my novel set in Liverpool. This is my plan now, to go back to uni, get back into working and writing and try to fix my novel.

It sounds a lot of work, but I've done it before! When I did my GCSEs I wrote a whole series of novels I think there was like 7 or 8 books in all and they range from 50-70 odd pages (was aimed at teenagers) Then during my as/a levels I wrote 3 adult novels (My first trilogy and also first novels about vampires!) I'd done two years of animal care before that, but I suddenly started writing again and was inspired to carry on by a friend who I'd met in high school. She then wrote herself into the second book, (which reminds me I need to bring her back from the dead at the end of that novel!) and helped me edit the first one as my college years drew to an end.

Then there's been uni and my chance to prove myself. Mostly its the fact to prove to myself that I can write and I can turn my hobby into something else- my dream job. Also its to prove to people who said I couldn't get into uni and pass, wrong, because there's been a lot of them in my past and now I can already feel it happening. I mean I've written another trilogy now -minus 1 book, have written a few single novels, though most I still have to finish and I've another trilogy- a fantasy one still in the making. I've also written poems and short stories now and proving that I can write not just about vampires but about other stuff too.

I guess I sort of got on to that subject because I've just learned about my second best friend failing to pass her second year. I also know that my housemate has also failed and I've heard of other people doing like wise. This lead on to me thinking about how far I'd come and how though it seemed against all the odds I'd passed my second year with a 2.1 overall. Yet there are others, who I believed were better then me or just had put in more then me, who I believed would pass, but have failed for whatever reason. So in a way I'm sorry to all those who haven't passed and hope they have better luck in the future and me well.... I stand by what my parents have always told me; you can only try your best.

So I'm going to turn to my final year at uni and keep that saying close to my heart, just because that's what I do!

Lots to say in this small space!

Hi, followers!

I've been away on holiday again and this time I was staying on a narrow boat and traveling along the Grand Union Canal. Me and my family hired a 6 bed boat called the Carisbrooke Castle and it was massive! A living room, kitchen, two bedrooms, two bathrooms and seats at the front and back of the boat. The space was so needed because we took Sandy- my dog-with us as well.



Most of the time we were just relaxing and watching the world pass us by. Everything seems slower on the boat because you are just traveling gently along the water and watching the nature and other boats around you. The other times were spent dealing with the locks. They are scary things at first and do take awhile to get use to. They are used to get a boat up or down because the canal fits in with the landscape and therefore has different water levels.

This is a lock.

So, firstly the water inside the lock must be at the same level the boat is at. If not the water must be flooded or drained from the lock and this is done by using a windless to wind the paddles on the gates up or down so that the water can flow. Once this is sorted the boat can go in the lock and both gates and the paddles get shut.

Next, the paddles are open on the other gate, so that the water can drain/flood to make it level on the next side. Once this is done, the gates can be opened to let the boat go on. There are lots of different kinds of locks and most of them can fit two boats in. Some are single, but you can get a staircase 2/3 locks together or a flight 3+ all after each other, others can have 2 sets of paddles and the bottom ones must be open first or the boat could be filled with water!



The locks were the hardest part. I mega enjoyed all the nature though! check these pics out.

Those are like my highlights. So after all that fun, today has been an important day for me. I started my volunteering job today at the RSPCA Charity shop. The only thing I did was put clothes on hangers and putting tags on the clothes. I did some teddies too and that was about it. I've got to go back tomorrow, so hopefully they'll give me some more things to do, I get bored so easily!

Also I got fitted for contact lenses today. I had to have new glasses first because my eye sight has changed again. I don't much have a choice where my glasses are concerned because I need to wear them 24/7 and without them I just can't see anything! So now I've some cool brown square shaped glasses that look really nice and also I'm able to wear the standard contacts which is mega good. I've to wait a week now for them, can't wait!

That's about it for today anyway, think that's enough.

Random update

Yeah, I'm bored, it's too dark to read and I'm too late to start typing a new story. I'm waiting for The Deep to come on TV, last week it was so cool and scary, I just need to see what happens!

Today though I got a job volunteering at the RSPCA Charity shop, so I'll be working there in the mornings now and that'll be cool! A new thing to do. Also booked to get contact lenses, very scared about that. Been wearing glasses since I was 6 so the change is going to be hard to get use to, but I only want them for going out, I really want to show of that green eyeshadow I like wearing. Hope that'll work out okay....

Started the 3rd Black Dagger Brotherhood today and wrote another short story about someone making a pact with the Grim Reaper. These short stories seem to be going well, really getting into writing them now. Need to start writing my novels again now though. Hope I can have enough time to do that now! I've no pics, not been taking many photos, not a lot has been going on though, just boring stuff whilst I try and get fitter. That's not going so good either. I'm trying hard but nothing seems to have changed. I know it takes time to show but I thought I would have something by now.....

Not a lot else to write about, been packing for the narrow boat holiday on Sunday, cut my dog's nails, though she needs a bath now before she goes on the boat. That'll be hard, she hates the bath tub!

Summer's still dragging

Hi followers!

I hope your summer is going better then mine, at the minute things are heading downwards again. I got out of my Sims3 addiction because I was bored of it and all that time in Sim world was making me believe that living in that world would be easier then this one! I mean you just have a pile of money, you buy a house straight way, fill it with cool stuff, go and get a job straight way and make more money to buy more stuff. So I had to get myself out of there!

I'm struggling on the main pc today, can't be bothered getting my laptop out, but so typical some idiot has come along and messed everything and me not really knowing my way around computers is having to cope with what reminds of someone downloading a new Internet explore link, so that I've no fav files, no tool bars and a home page which keeps demanding I sign up to 02 phones. I only came on here to listen to music whilst I finished my book off, but my msn had to start playing up when my friend tried to talk to me and now It's been like half an hour and my book-4 chapters from the end! has been abandoned.

It's a hard book to abandoned though..... Lover Eternal by J .R. Ward and if you go down a few posts to 'rocking out the summer house', you'll see that I'm reading it from the second time now. I got the whole series (The Black Dagger Brotherhood) and I've given up with the uni novels now-I was just suffering under their heavy weight of Victorian/Edwardian life. So much that I'm now positive it effected my need to write my own novels. Once I read Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre I was like what kind of novel can I write to top that? So I've not really wrote much, beside from one short story and some of a random novel was writing an age ago.

Anyway, I've to leave and go on a quest to find a dungeons and dragons board game for our boat hire holiday.

Photo highlights-please read blog below!

Bodmin Jail

Surf boards on Newquay beach


Building at Pendennis Castle

St. Mawes Castle

Boats in Harbour at Polperro

Black crane bird

Fowley habour

Spainish garden at Eden Project

Eden Project

Me and an kid at Land's End farm

View from a point around Land's End Coastal walk

Land's End Building

The Mud Maiden at Heligan

View of Mevginessy

Our tent! Home for 2 weeks.

Cornwall Holiday

Hey, sorry I've not wrote in an age, but I've been mega busy and for two weeks without the Internet-whilst I've been on holiday-and now I've been busy dealing with the aftermath of holiday-before it was the preparations-and also sorting out a few other things. More on that later. Firstly, though I've 11 followers now! So I'm mega happy! But what they say about blogs is true, it does take a long time to get anywhere so everyone keep up the blogging!

My holiday this year was in Cornwall, on the opposite side to where we went to a few years back. so on the like east coast I think. We were camping in a tent seconds from a beach at a place called Pentwen Sands. It was mega nice there! They have a cool new swimming pool and restaurant/bar with night time entertainments. The campsite wasn't busy either-the kids had yet to break for the summer-so we had enough time to relax. Though there was very little of this in the first week!

I want to write about a blog about my holiday, so I'll just briefly go into the places we went to here and then hopefully I'll start a new blog soon. We visited lots of towns around where we were camped. Most of them are harbour towns, which are really pretty and often don't get a lot of people through them. St Austell and Mevagissey where the closet places to the campsite. Both were pretty cool and had good shops.

In the first week we went to The Lost Gardens of Heligan on Monday, which are mega cool! There's just so much to see and do and the name is so fitting. I liked the woodland walk best and seeing the mud maiden, took so cool photos too. On Tuesday we went to Land's End and did all the shows which included a 4D movie, Dr Who experience and a farm, where I met a baby goat and really wanted to take him home! We went to the Eden Project on Wednesday and I'd recommend that everyone go and visit that! The whole idea of it is just mind-blowing and there's so much to learn about the nature around us which is so fascinating. On Thursday we went to Fowley where we explored the town before doing a self drive boat tour around Fowley harbour. On Friday we went to Charlestown and the shipwreck museum. we also saw the tall ships, including the one Alice sails away on in Alice and Wonderland. Saturday saw us heading to the sea festival at loos and stopping at Polperro on the way home.

Sunday was the opening of the second week and we decided to take it easy and chill out on the local beach. On Monday we went to two sister castles, Mawes and Pendennis which were built by Henry VIII to defend the coast. Tuesday we hit Newquay and Buccaneer's bay, but were forced home because of the heavy rain. The weather was still bad on Wednesday, so we went to another castle-Restormal and the village of LostWithiel, we also popped into Eden again on the way home to use the free tickets. Thursday was still wet, so went to the China Clay works and on Friday we went gift shopping in Mevagissey. We left on Saturday but stopped at Bodim and visited the jail, court room experience and the Jamaican inn.

Overall it was a fun holiday, seen lots and done lots! Now I just have to write it up in my holiday blog.

Rocking the Summer house!

It's been awhile since I've been able to say 'Yes, I really loved that book, I'm adding it to my fav list right now.' I've been reading so many books for eng lit and just been suffering because of it. I've been bored out of my head by these Victorian books, which just goes to show how the writers' believed novels had to be written to certain rules and things like love must be hidden under different words so that people wouldn't be horrified by such exposed things. Well, I finally decided to take a break from them- I was at the halfway point anyway and by chance I picked up a book I brought in my last trip to Liverpool - J .R. Ward's Lover Eternal. It blew my mind away and showed me how much novels have become exposed now -you can get away with just about everything now days if a publisher likes it!

I hardly put it down, because I got so wrapped up in things. Then when I read the last page, I discovered it was the 2nd in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. I got on Amazon fast and grabbed the 1st and 3rd. I'd brought the 2nd to last one with Eternal, so I just need to get my hands on the others now. I've decided to take these two on holiday, as well as the 3rd in the Sliver/Flint pirates of Treasure Island books I've been reading-The 1st made it to my fav list. I was meant to take Wuthering Heights-the next in my Eng lit books away with me, but the thought of sitting on a beach trying to read that doesn't seem so good to me.

I've nothing against these novels, I'm a bookworm, but sometimes these types of books just don't grab me....vampires however do!

The summer house

I'm currently chilling out in the summer house at the minute. Well its more of a DIY, pop up place, because my dad made it out of a gazebo house and also a smaller gazebo, some wood, plastic sheeting, so bricks and old sofa cushions. So though it does look little untidy, it is the perfect place to hang out in-sun or rain! Its cool, but warm at the same time and it does leak but only in a heavy rainfall. The bench chairs are so comfy though and there is a table, power plug for laptop and a speaker which links to the Hifi system in the shed. There are lights too and a pool/snooker table. No one could really ask for a better place in which to chill out in when it gets too hot on the grass or the lawn chair breaks again. It's bigger then the photo makes it and just right for taking a nap in.

Inside the summer house.

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Lastly, this is a photo of Hairy von Baron Strawberry. His name came from a joke and a misunderstanding. He is a barren Strawberry plant and I misunderstood this and thought he was a baron instead, then his first name comes from the fact he was very hairy when I got him. So I just stuck all of that together and so he was named! My best friend, who give him to me, said he wouldn't get strawberries this year because he was just a baby......well, it seems he didn't listen to that because now he has 6 strawberries growing and he also seems to have got more leaves. So he must be older then she thought or he likes his spot in my garden so much that he's just grown up! Anyway, I'm hoping to have some home grown strawberries in late summer!