Thankful Thursday!

Good Thursday to you all! I hope that you're all having a glorious week?! I've gotta say, mine is quite the mixed bag. You see,  I was peacefully enjoying my mini easter break until Tuesday and since going back to work on Wednesday I'm starting to wish I'd run away with the easter bunny to the land of easter until next year. But hey ho, there we go. 

Oh and I'm feeling much better today, last night did result in curling into a ball like a fragile possum and having a cry about how much my tummy hurt. Proper adult right here.

A few things to be thankful for. 

1) My organisation station.- That's right! The vitals were all there on macbook delivery day. I bought this notebook from TkMaxx as a birthday present for my bestest Stacie. Foolishly I left it on the spare bed which has increasingly become Batman's day-bed and I came back the next day to find suspicious little gnaw marks all over it. So sozages Stacie, looks like that one's staying here. I love Jane Austen and it says "There's no charm equal to tenderness of heart."...I'm also reading Angela's Ashes which is the book beneath my snazzy notepad, but I'll do a book review when I finish. Hooray for tea and jelly babies though!

2) Cornish being recognised as a minority.- Isn't this great news!? I'm not Cornish myself, but Harps is (not that he has an ounce of heritage in him) and my Facebook newsfeed has been flooded with this today. So many of my friends are over the moon about it.  Congratulations Kernow folk!

3) Not feeling lonely.- I'm a funny old fish (shark) and sometimes, for mostly no reason at all, I find myself feeling incredibly alone. I think it usually happens at Grandpa important dates. Since writing this, making bloggy friends (I hope) and making more effort with the real-live ones that I have, I haven't felt like that. Also, so many open and honest posts from other bloggers make me feel sane and  grateful and not as crazy as life sometimes feels. Lisette I'm looking at you. Thank you.

4) Trust.- Some friends confided in me at the end of last week, about very different matters. I'm thankful that those people feel that they can trust me.  I've got a good ol set of ears! 

5) Speaking in funny voices.- It's so rare that Harps and I will actually use our regular voices when we talk to each other. It makes me laugh. Does anyone else do this?!

As always thank you to the ever fabulous Lisette for inspiring me to be more thankful. And to the very bodacious Liona for the same. (Also does anyone else say "Oh Leona" like "My Sharona"??)...

Love Sophie Xx

Weird and Wonderful News Wednesday #13 MY MAC AIRBOOK HAS ARRIVED! Reasons You Shouldn't Take Holiday From Work, Letters From a Brave Soldier, Happy 450th Birthday William Shakespeare! And Rosie Got Engaged!

Good Day wondrous world! I must confess, I had a much more easter themed weekend planned for you all! Alas, I had too much fun not being at work that I neglected you all in favour of eating too much chocolate and taking afternoon naps- ya know, the usual. I cross my heart and hope to die promise that this weekend you will all enjoy the most spectacular of Batman posts. He had a great easter too! He's looking forward to a take-over! 
Second confession. I intended to make his post all over this evenings' but then two things happened.

1) My Macbook arrived! Huzzah! This is brilliant news for all of us because my poor lappetytop was almost eight years old, had been reset to factory settings more times than I've had hot dinners, and blue screen crashed on a daily basis. I feel so fancy...But I'm still getting used to using it! And using a keyboard that i haven't got to fist pump the keys to type! Bare with me.

2) I've been a sick puss this evening.  I'm not sure why, combo of a long, tiring first day back at work and not eating/drinking enough/ eastereggcomedown. Who knows. I feel crappy. 

So let us sum up a spot of news and I'll catch you all in the morrow. When I feel a bit more human....until then, you can fantasise about me kissing me above. You're welcome.

Happy Birthday Bill! 450 TODAY! 

I am a massive fan of William Shakespeare. My mum has this massive book with everything he wrote     (well as much as was known when it was published) and I used to love spending hours looking through it. My darling Grandpa used to encourage his work as well. He once spent three hours discussing/ explaining Hamlet to me when I was about seven! 

Letters From A Soldier To His Mother. Via the independent.com

Cyrus Thatcher was one of the youngest victims fighting for this country in the war. At 19 years old, he served for over two years before he was sadly killed. Read his letters, feel his love and honour his memory. As you all know, I'm not a supporter of war, in any way. In my opinion, troops should have come home a long time ago, preferably not at all. What can I say, I'm a lover, not a fighter. That standing aside, it's hard to imagine, writing a letter to your family at 19 years old, incase you die. Sad stuff.

32 Reasons Why You Should Never Take a Holiday From Work. via buzzfeed.com

All of these are brilliant. Except 5 and 6. I HATE Nicholas Cage. WITH. A. PASSION. I dare you to challenge that.  Seriously, they're hilarious. Click.

CONGRATULATIONS ROSIE! 

Everyone knows the wonderful Rosie from the brilliant and massively inspirational blog Cider with Rosie. She posted the most beautiful post all about her awesome engagement! Congratulations Rosie! I can't wait to read all about your wedding planning! P.s her photos of Teddy the dog are adorable! 

Here's a photo that I took the exact moment I realised that fishes were moving on my screen and I could pretend that I was underwater! YES.

Love Sophie Xx

Easter Eggstravaganza!

Happy Good Friday Easter bunnies and easter chicks! What beautiful weather I have had on my lovely bank holiday! And we all know how much I love a bank holiday! It's like I get it off specifically because I work in a bank! That's right, yeah? So I'm sorry I missed Thankful Thursday yesterday, I was out with work buddies having a drinking dinner evening. I got home not too late but rather merry and full of delight. Causing Harps to stay awake much longer than I think he's intended. Resulting in him asking me; "Do you have any idea how loudly you're talking?!"...Oops. So this morning as he trudged off to work (he doesn't have such bank holiday privileges) I decided that this afternoon I would hold him an EGGSTRAVAGANZA hunt! Well I couldn't find too many eggs, so it was more of an easter delight hunt. I also decided that this is Batman's prime time for photos so brace yourselves for a BATSTRAVAGANZA WEEKEND! 

On my day off I took my mummy's spaniels for a walk with her in the sunshine! Dylan is the eldest and we had him since a puppy. He's getting a bit old and grey now, so he just seems to plod along calmly. Tink was taken in by my parents about a year ago. Her best friend contacted her and told her about this dog near where he lived that was being treated badly and had been rescued. But she had such a lovely temperament and he thought my parents would be able to give her a perfect new home. So they've added her to the family. She's batty as anything. She's loving the spring time, chasing butterflies on her walks. We had a great time!

This Official Tea Chart is just awesome. I think that this should be on every wall...everywhere. I hate it when people make a bad cup of tea. I'm a Nigerian Sunset kinda girl. How about you? 

And here's the eggstravaganza! I've decorated Batman's hang out spots with easter bunting and included it in Harp's hunt! He gave him a bit of a helping hand! It was pretty damn fun. I'm pretty damn awesome.

Stay tuned over the weekend for Batman's very own special easter diary!

Love Sophie Xx

Weird and Wonderful News Wednesday #12 AAAHHHH I Cut My Hair! Nirvana Plays As Original Line Up, A Baby Geep Is Born! A 13yr Old Mongolian Huntress & Easter Rabbit Celebrations In Prague!

Good Wednesday people of the world! This week it really has felt like happiness is in the air hasn't it?! It's all that sunshine going to my head! On my day off I put on a flouncy vintage dress that I got from a charity shop years ago (it's a bit big round the o'l boobies so I have to hoist it up with a belt!) I'm looking forward to Easter weekend! I've got three whole days off and I'm looking forward to some lovely family time at Mother's Easter Roast (it's quite the event) and a spot of time with Harps. What are all of your Easter plans?! I'd love to know!

Now for some news! As always the links are on the headings, unless they're clips I found on Youtube after reading newspapers! Enjoy! 

Nirvana plays to 200 people as original line up.

So isn't this awesome! Minus Cobain, the original line up of Nirvana played for a crowd of 200 people. Doesn't Dave Grohl look so happy! Yes! 

HELLO THERE LITTLE GEEP! That's Right, A goat-sheep! Via Huffingtonpost.com

YEAAAAHHH GEEP! This little sheep-goat or goat-sheep was born after some saucy affairs! The farmer's reaction is priceless! 

Mongolian Huntress Just 13 Years Old. Via BBcNews.com

Ashoi Pan was the beautiful young lady, a rare sight as a female huntress, captured by the brilliant photographer Asher Svidensky whilst travelling in Mongolia. The power of the eagle is dominant in all the photos, but Ashoi looks so free, they're really all pretty spectacular. My hero of the week definitely goes to Ashoi Pan for inspiring a new generation in Mongolia.

Easter Celebrations Rabbit Obstacle Course In Prague! Via Buzzfeed.com

YES YES YES YES! I'm not gonna lie, I had every intention of trying to stage a version for this for Batman for all of your Easter delight. I'm not gonna lie. He's pretty hard to convince. I shall persevere in hopeful time for Easter weekend! 

And here's my scary new hair cut. Not look like much you may think. To be honest I thought so too...at first...kind of. I really should learn not to cut my hair whilst dancing around in the bathroom. Remember like Sabrina the Teenage Witch (Jenny) tells us: Hair grows. 

Love Sophie Xx

Life Lessons That I Learnt From Disney.

So recently, I had the rare opportunity to catch up with my best friend Stacie. What with me working full time and her in her final year of her fashion degree (check out her awesome work!) days together are usually cheap AND involving cake, tea and Disney. So I prepared the teapot (made special effort) and got the goodies (jam swiss roll and cookies) and we settled down to watch Tangled (she was shocked that I've never seen it) and Frozen (neither of us had seen it.) I've gotta say, I can't give any sort of review of Tangled because the only part I saw was her magical glowing hair (which is amazing)...Other than that, we browsed wedding goodies. Frozen on the other hand was BRILLIANT. We laughed, we almost cried. It was magical. Which got me thinking; Disney taught me so much! So here is an ongoing list of influences and things I've learnt from my years as a Disney fiend.

P.s. You're welcome for the photos. I make an awesome Bambi! Cheers FaceInHole!

1) Bambi put me off the idea of ever eating venison. Ever. Even though the decision was made when I was five.
2) Reading is cool. Belle says so.-Maybe not in those words.
3) My singing will NOT bring birds flocking around me.
4) The same goes for cute woodland creatures.
5) Infact, the only time I think my singing may have attracted an animal was when a snarling badger chased me.

6) Ohana means family.

7) And family means that nobody gets left behind. Or forgotten. I literally knew that by heart....as should you.
8) If you cut your hair and wear a suit of armour...idiots will think you're a man.
9) Toys are alive. FACT.
10) A girl will sell out her home town for a set of legs. (I am NOT a fan of Ariel's. Flounder however is awesome.)
11) A spoonful of sugar will always help medicine go down.
12) Always buy fitting shoes. No ala-Cinderella for me.
13) Don't lie, you'll get a massive nose.
14) Not to bother trying to pull any swords from any stones. I WON'T be able to. And it WILL be embarrassing trying.
15) That I don't like circus animals. The scene on the train in Dumbo still makes me cry...Like I cried last month at it.
16) Same goes for Oliver & Company. Cats should NOT BE SOLD IN CARDBOARD BOXES. This makes me well still thinking about it.
17) Alice In Wonderland taught me what getting high looked like.
18) That spaghetti and meatballs is the food of love.
19) If you can grab a prince, happy days. If not, show your woman power!

20) That everybody wants to be a cat.
21) That people are fancy in Paris.
22) Even mice can spy on you- a'la Basil Ze Great Mouse Detective. Big Brother is watching.
23) It's whats inside that counts. But a general rule when watching Disney is that the good guys will still be the best looking, and the bad guys will have warts and be ugly.
24) Not all rugs are magic carpets.
25) Tarzan is was hot.
26) As is was John Smith from Pocahontas.
27) Hiding in a big cathedral won't get you anywhere.
28) Saying that, neither will making a mess of yourself all over the town....nor will talking to gargoyles.
29) Film sequels will be a life disappointment. (Excluding Toy Story)
30) Every part of enthusiasm/knowledge about ancient Greece is thanks to Hercules.
31) Which is why I know nothing about ancient Rome. Missed a trick in my learning there Disney! *Shakes fist*
32) Monsters in the cupboards are real. But they are probably just as scared of you as you are of them.
33) You'll probably meet the "prince charming" type...he'll probably be slimeball.
34) What a clown fish looks like.
35) There will usually be a happy ending....depending on when you count to be the ending.

The list goes on and on.

No doubt I'll be adding to this sometime.

No doubt I'll think of 20 more things as soon as I post this.

Share with me the life lessons that Disney's taught you!

Love Sophie Xx