teapot

Back at uni...was dreading leaving home and friends so much...and my fridge friends - the posh milk, nice chutneys, never-ending supply of interesting yoghurts...I'm not going to think about it anymore, it's making me despise my measly supply of breakfast biscuits in my college cupboard. I christened the loose-leaf teapot my Mum gave me for Christmas, it's a very popular acquisition in the Megan room which now looks like a trinket shop. Speaking of acquisitions, finally lifted my mermaid mirror to the place it deserved on the mantelpiece, I think I like it there, it can live there til June. (What am I going to do with this thing when I leave?!) p.s. please excuse how filthy it is.

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Grandma Susan & Nikki - New Year's Day lunch 

Happy New Year everyone!!! Everyone around me seems to have been saying that 2012 was the worst year they've had and they can't wait for a fresh start. If you need that fresh start I hope you've had it in these first few days, but personally I had a great 2012 and I'm sad to see it go. I've lived and worked in London for a summer, seen my whole family get together in one place for a party, started my finals course (my favourite yet) and turned 21. In fact this blog was started because so much was going on in my life which I wanted to share with family. May your new year's resolutions last longer than 25 days...(apparently the average for resolutions in the UK - shocking).

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christmas & boxing

Christmas Day was GREAT. There were only five of us round the table this year (Grandma Susan got kidnapped) but the house still seemed buzzing. After opening presents Nikki wanted us to all go t'pub...so naturally we did, and t'pub was giving out free drinks! We'll be going there again... Later on in the evening after food/visitors/pudding/christmas top gear bond cars special Mairi got fed up of us all and made us all go to bed. She's going to make a fine Managing Director one day.

Boxing day we did what normal families do and went on an excessively long walk..only to end up in Tesco where the boy of Mairi's dreams was on shift and she wasn't wearing any makeup, so she died. Happy New Year everyone and hope you're all well!!!

ps. I've been playing with an open-source version of Photoshop, I think it does all the same things but is extremely hard to use for a beginner!

merry christmas!

Merry Christmas for tomorrow everyone! This is what my last few days have looked like. Started a new Christmas tradition tonight with my sisters - passing time waiting for the Thai takeaway to be ready by having a nosy at all the Christmas displays in the shop windows and judging the shopkeepers if they were rubbish. These were our favourites though:

SO.EXCITED.MUST.GO.TO.BED.BEFORE.SANTA.ARRIVES.

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Missed these loons.

christmas crossing cottage

Home! And so excited about it. I worked out I had been in Cambridge for 12 weeks this time which is 4 weeks more than my body can put up with. It hates me. The puss in boots is Kevin, who's quite comfortably adopted my Mother's house.

A full view of Mum's work of art..

buy social

If you know me well you'll know I give a lot of my time at uni and in the holidays to supporting the Social Enterprise sector. I'm a big fan of SEUK's Buy Social Campaign (see sticker at top of the page at the moment) and they've recently sent out a brilliant email with suggestions for 'buying social' this Christmas. I thought I'd stick 'em on here too as I don't think many of you would have signed up to the SEUK mailing list ha.

So - buy your Christmas presents from a Social Enterprise this year:

▲ Pants from Who Made Your Pants? ▲

▲ Chutneys from Rubies in the Rubble ▲

▲ Bags & Accessories from Elvis & Kresse ▲

▲ Baby clothes from From Babies With Love ▲

▲ Gym membership with Better ▲

▲ Handmade bags from Elephant Branded ▲