Week of Fun

Due to being unable to fly to Thailand when we wanted to, we decided to have ourselves a Week of Fun! Since last Saturday, we have been to the beach at Clacton (Essex) and to Alton Towers.

Firstly, for our beach trip. Zoe Green wanted to go to a beach so we roadtripped to Clacton-On-Sea, a surprisingly nice beach which had everything that required us to have a fabulous British Beach Holiday in a day. We had not-so-toasted paninis, ice cream, walks on the pier and all of this whilst wearing a straw hat. Basically making us beautifully stereotypical British holiday makers, all in one day!

Here are some shots of the day:

On Monday we went to Alton Towers. When we left Bedfordshire, it was sunny and had the makings of a perfect British Summer day. Once we made it up north, it turned into a completely different story. Dressed in Summer mode proved freezing and I was so close to buying some socks (with sandals, no less) to warm my freezing, practically frost bitten toes. Shame the only socks available were £12. That wasn't going to happen. I had to man up and freeze.

Good times were definitely had though. We managed to run around the park to get every ride we wanted to do done. My personal favourite was Nemesis, that old time roller coaster which has been in Alton Towers for as long as I can remember. We even went on the front for a couple of rides because the queues weren't long at all.

I want to write about our travel situation but worry about cursing us, so I will leave it at hoping with all hopes to fly out at the weekend.

Over and out... X

Travel Update

Our flight to Bangkok has been cancelled due to the ash from the volcano eruption over in sunny Iceland. We have managed to get on the next available flight which turns out to be 24th April. Luckily, we fly out to Australia a couple of days after this and not before the 24th. This would have been problematic, and would have resulted in us changing all of our flights. Well, fingers crossed that this doesn't happen anyway.

This week, we have decided, is to be our week of fun. We are planning to roadtrip, possibly up to Alton Towers. Today, we are stuffing ourselves full on Nandos. Comfort eating is always the best plan.

I will keep you updating on the travel situation if it changes.

Over and out xxx

Disagreements with the Powers That Be

Well, it seems to me that luck is against me lately. Not only has Kerry broken her toe about a week before we are due to fly, there have been riots in Bangkok as I mentioned below, a volcanic eruption from Iceland which has resulted in closure of the British Air Space (for the first time ever - good one) and then to make matters worse, someone broke into my car today.

I can see bad luck following me around like a big black cloud of doom. It's like I broke a mirror without noticing and there is a curse following me around. Claire even thought I was cursed before she knew about the car incident.

On a more amusing note, here is some ridiculous photos of me all packed and ready to go.

This is what I look like when I carry my whole world on my shoulders. Not a good look but too funny not to put up.

Uh Oh Thailand...

Ok, so we are hitting panic stations due to the state of Thailand at the moment. We could well be exaggerating, but we didn't fancy being bombed so we have had a bit of a change of plan.

Our new, current plan is to fly straight up to Chiang Mai and hide there instead of staying in Bangkok. It is a shame that we are missing out on Bangkok, especially the legendary 'Ping-Pong' show which did sound disgraceful yet fantastic.

On a more positive note though, we have booked our places to visit an elephant nature park. We get to play with rescued elephants and even wash them! There will definately be some amusing photo opportunities there.

http://www.elephantnaturepark.org/herd/changyim.htm

We are also going to visit Tiger Kingdom. This looks so lovely too. We are definately getting our wildlife fill from Chiang Mai.

http://www.chiangmaichimes.com/Images/Tiger-Kingdom2.jpg

I will be blogging as much as possible. I will be writing a travel journal the whole time too. I am not going to let any part of this trip go unremembered.

Three days to go...

Geeks Unite and Roller-skate

Myself with one of my favourite people in the whole world.

Geeks R Us.

This was on Easter Sunday, at a roller disco in Vauxhall, London. I feel pleased with my geek look and I found it (hopefully surprisingly) easy to dress as a nerd. It was fancy dress before you ask, I don't usually dress in so many patterns that it makes your eyes want to fall out of your head.

Anyway, good times were had and I promised I would post these shots. I even have permission from Miss Cooksley too, so I had to.

Norwegian Photos Continued...

Some more photos to look at. I have been looking through these old holiday shots and figured I would share them with you.

All photos posted here are copyright © S. Howell 2010.

These photos aren't the highest quality but if you are interested in any of them, please get in touch.

Emoting floral obsession...

I am emoting a lot of love for the Primark floral top. I love it because I can layer pretty much everything over it. I just can't help myself.

(The fabulous floral top - Primark, Rose top - Matalan, Jeggings - New Look, Cardgian - Primark, Shoes - H&M, Rose ring - Accessorize, Pendant - River Island)

(My favourite flower ring from Accessorize. I can't help but play with silly effects on iPhoto - My nail varnish is actually red. Mental.)

(Some of my favourite shoes courtesy of H&M)

I've started sketching fashion ideas for the first time in about five years. Part of me still regrets not pursuing a degree in textiles and fashion but since music was more of a strength, it made sense to do a Music degree.

I will be sure to put some fashion sketches up on here once they are finished.

I guess I am using my blog to host my ideas so I don't lose my love for fashion.

I am going to start making more clothes and accessories, especially I have so many fashion orientated pals for are so clever with their various machines to make beautiful things. I need them to teach me a bit so I can get practiced before I potentially have to teach textiles...

On a completely different note, I am going to a roller disco in London tonight so I will be sure to put up some ridiculous photos of me dressed as a geek on here for you to laugh at. I think its actually a great idea for fancy dress and its worrying how easy I have found dressing as a geek to be. Hmm.

Anyway, over and out, my dears xxx