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Tiny Town Big Community On Saturday, May 6th 2017 we took a little trip to an adorable little town in Derbyshire.  We found the town centre nice and easily and found a free car park, that in itself seems like a miracle when you have come from Manchester. We parked up and I admired the view for a moment.  Car Park View In Belper  Then we headed down a gorgeous little secret feeling passage way, which had me excited before I even got anywhere.  Cute Path With Flowers  Then we hit the high street and the first shop we came to was possibly the cutest shop I have ever seen. J'adore Ma Vie is gorgeous from the outside and even better from the inside.  J'adore Shop Front It was full of lovely things for the home and wonderful gifts. Including some with an amazing Belper theme. There was so much to look at as soon as you walked through the door it was like a magical treasure trove of quaint.   It's Always Gin O'clock In ...

STRESS Photo of some snow leopards By me just because they make me feel better Today my blog was meant to be a review of the lovely day I had yesterday but I am not feeling very capable of writing that. I want it to be good, I have great images for it but they need editing and I have zero brain power. Tomorrow is my college interview. It shouldn't be a big deal I can't reasonably see why I wouldn't get on the course but my anxiety has other ideas, which are eating all of my brain skills.  Disasters that my brain has persuaded me might happen. 1. The interviewer flat out hates me  2. I can't remember how to speak 3.I fail the simple maths test (even though I can do math just fine) 4. I fall over entering the interview room 5. Buses and trains decide not to run at all that day 6. I can't find the college (even though I have been there and planned my route) 7. I am just too rubbish for it  That's just in the last 5 minutes so its ...

Looking Forward So it's another little getting to know me post. Thing one is just telling you a little of what I am working towards. Working Towards the Future By Reading Photo By Me 1. I want to be a neuroscientist. One day in the distant future I want to do research into how people's brains work and don't work. I have completed step one of this plan, find out what I need to do to get there. Step 2 was to apply for college to do psychology and anatomy, which I have done and I have an interview. After that it's time to work my butt off at college and get into uni. Maybe do 6 years there, eeeep.  Brain Structure Diagram Drawn And Photographed By Me 2. I want to be organised, I am trying my hardest. I am just not very good at it. I tend to be a little disorderly. I am using a planner and trying to sort several areas of my life out.  Diary And Journal Photo By Me 3. I want to do more creative stuff, going to and making. I am involved in a f...

Here are 10 songs I love  This has been really difficult to write but here is an idea of the music I like. I am going to alternate between an old song that really shaped my taste in music and a song I have only heard in the last year or so that was just amazing.  I am kicking off the list with Korn's Make me Bad  I heard this song when I was in my early teens and it has never failed to make me happy and to make me dance. I very quickly became a huge Korn fan and they very nearly made it into the new tracks I love too.    Photo of me showing my Korn influence, by me  The first new track is Def Neon with Chocolate . I heard this song live at Beat;Cancer in Leeds last summer, it's off their new album and they just blew me away. I struggled to pick from their new album tracks and was torn between this one and Rotoscope. They have so much energy live it's just amazing.  The song that shaped my music tastes is  Placebo 36 degrees...

Cheshire cat time Photo Spiral Moon Photography A little post just to show off the fun I had being the Cheshire cat in Chester. Photo Spiral Moon Photography Photo Credit Spiral Moon Photography

My Fear of Clowns It surprises many people to hear that I am petrified of clowns. For a long time I was so scared I couldn't even be in the same room as a clown doll. I like to push myself with my fears though.  So I took on a crazy project. I agreed to do the make up for and photograph a noise artist called Pandemonium. He felt he needed a total restyle after a break from performing and asked for my assistance. I took a while to think about it and spent a long time looking at past pictures of Pandemonium trying to work out if I could take on this project. It took months for me to come up with design ideas because I was physically sick the first couple of times I tried.  Pandemonium original style Photographer unknown Then when swapping ideas it kind of clicked we came up with an idea. I thought out a couple of make up looks and photo ideas, I did a mood board which involved me looking at lots of pictures of clowns, it was the scariest and one of the most diff...

So I thought sharing some of my favourite quotes with you might give you a bit of insight into me.  Photo by me Taken outside Liverpool Central Library   My all time favourite person to quote from is the wonderful Oscar Wilde. I could quote him forever, but I will just share a few of my favs. We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing. My love of Oscar is long standing I fell in love with his wit at the age of 12. I bought the complete works around 18 and not a year passes where I do not fall in love with him all over again. I guess one of my next big quotable people would be Neil Gaiman. My love of whom is strongest when perfectly matched with Dave Mckean. I can not describe his writing in a way that does it any justice b...