That Girl with that Blog

Hello Earthlings, One of the beautiful things about being on holiday is that you have so much time on your hands that you can happily waste the days away reading. A pool day reading choice this week was Hot Mess by Lucy Vine. I didn't set out to find this book but as I was scrolling through the Store page on my Kindle trying to grab some last minute holiday reads when I came across Hot Mess followed by "Bridget Jones for a new generation" and this caught my eye. Side note: I'm currently reading the Bridget Jones diaries at home and just started the second, I did consider bringing these along but how on earth could I manage 3 extra books in my suitcase and all my clothes for 2 weeks and a big bottle of conditioner with just 20kg baggage allowance? I know, too hard, must invest in a private jet. As this was an impulse purchase I started reading with no idea of what to expect other than something that will vaguely remind me of Bridget Jones. But I soon became to feel...

Hello Earthlings, If you aren't familiar with the phrase putting the world to rights I have gone to the effort of googling it for an explanation for you, to put the world to rights is to have a conversation with someone in which you exchange opinions on a range of subjects, especially opinions on how to solve society's problems. This probably doesn't give you any hint as to what the topic of today's post is about but let's just roll with it.  As I've aged, speaking the 80 year old woman living inside of me, I've realised that you don't need to have a lot of people in your life in order to be happy and I've learnt to treasure the time I spend with people so this post is kind of a reminder to you lovely humans and a bit of appreciation.  Recently I went to stay at one of my oldest friend's house, not old as in age because she's actually pretty young, and we made tea and reminisced and just had a general catch up and it was really nice. We...

Hello Earthlings, First things first, I want to do a couple of PSAs as I'm aware my blog has been all over the place and not really there recently and I can clear this up for you. Blogging is still something I'm very much interested and I love having my little space on this internet and I'm so grateful that you're reading this right now because recently there's been little to no content. The main reason for this is that my laptop has decided it no longer wants to work properly so I'm currently in the process of trying to transfer all my files onto memory sticks so I can sort a new laptop out which is taking a very long time. How frustrating? So, I'm currently borrowing my Mum's laptop to write this on whilst we get all sorted. This will also be posted on Thursday, even though my posting day has been Sunday for a long time. I decided to shake it up a bit as I hope to develop my blog into something a little more relevant to me. Sunday has always been the...

Hello Earthlings, So many people had said that Albufeira is beautiful and that I would love it but I was still a bit wary. We booked to come here last September and I've been so excited about it since so I was a little bit nervous, what if I hated it? But as soon as I was on the coach from the airport I knew I would love it. One of my favourite places was definitely the Old Town but I won't go on about that too much as I'm going to dedicate a whole post to the beauty of it. We stayed at Monica Isabel Beach Club and I can't fault the place, sure some aspects of the room were a bit run down but it was nothing compared to the terrible hotel Jack and I stayed at in Paris so to me, it was luxury. Being all inclusive I obviously took advantage of the food and I have to say the chocolate chip cookies that were available at breakfast were heavenly and I may be turning into one... There was always fresh fruit available and a variety of Portuguese style dishes with some safet...

Hello Earthlings, Today I thought I would throw it back a bit and go to an old school ramble just to keep you lovely humans updated on my life. How exciting can the life of an old woman trapped in an 18 year old's body be, you ask? I do not know but read on and we all may learn something. Of course as it is a Sunday night I recommend a good ol' cuppa to accompany your reading yet you may choose something stronger if you wish. If you read my last post you will have guessed that I have finally finished my A-Levels, you can catch up here , so now I have a free summer (minus work).  The exciting thing is that this time next week I will be in Portugal and I am very excited and can't wait to lounge around and explore and gain about 5 stone as it is all inclusive. I do not want this week to completely drag so I'm going to try and keep myself as busy as I can, I have quite a bit to do which will all more than likely turn into blog posts at some point in time. A big part of ...

Hello Earthlings, In typical Lia style I disappeared off the face of the earth for a little bit and suddenly here I am. I guess you could say I’ve been a little bit busy with exams and what not and overall being a stressy mess but what’s new? So, here I am returning to my little internet space. I decided to do today’s post as a celebration to the fact that I have finished my A Levels and get a bit philosophical about what I personally learnt from my time at school. Grab a cuppa tea and have a bit of a gander. P.S. thank you for actually reading this post considering I completely disappeared into the realms of the unknown. People who are your friends may not always be your friends and that is okay. This is always something that completely baffled me, I’d hear people say “we just grew apart” and I’d be confused, I didn’t understand how you could go from being so close to someone to then not even smiling as you go past each other. But now I do understand it, I understand that as ...

Hello Earthlings, I woke up on Tuesday morning last week and my heart sank, I will never understand the thought process that someone goes through to be able to commit such an awful offence. I had hope that everyone who was declared missing would turn up and be okay with some minor injuries at a push, I checked the news at every point I could in the hope that all this news would go away and someone somewhere would have got it horribly wrong. But then they started to name those who had sadly lost their lives and it became even more real, this wasn't some horrible mistake this was very much real and has affected so many people. I had plans to go to Manchester this Saturday, the first Saturday after the horrible devastation, like many others to go and see The Courteeners at their homecoming gig at Old Trafford Cricket Ground to 50,000 being supported by The Charlatans, Blossoms and Cabbage. I had seen many people tweet that they weren't going to go and I understood the apprehen...