Farley Mount

On the 28th December Ollie, his dad, and I went to the local woods to take their dog, Archie, for a walk. Recently it seems as though all my posts are about walking, and until yesterday (NYE) I hadn't consciously realised that I actually do like walking - I suppose that living in a rural part of England for university has caused this. As usual, I took this as an opportunity to test my fledgling photography skills and, as usual, I thought I would share them on my blog.

The Sea Is a Good Place to Think of the Future

I've chosen the Los Campesinos! title for two reasons: they played in London this week, which I missed as I am still in Cornwall for a few more days; and I went on a walk along the sea (for 5 hours) with Ollie on Saturday, and as it happens the sea is a good place to think about the future, as well as the present. I'm not usually one willingly wanting to walk for a ridiculous amount of time - being from London and catching the frequent bus or tube service for two or more stops hasn't done me any favours in that respect. Nevertheless, Ollie coaxed me into doing it with the promise that I would be able to use his Canon 60D camera, yay. Here are some of our pictures:

Snowball

So my university, joint with Falmouth University, held a festive Snowball event to kickstart the Christmas season! Here are some pictures from the night in no particular order:

As you can see, I wore a sparkly blue dress, from New Look, that I mentioned a few weeks ago in my first blog post. Unfortunately, the dress isn't on their site anymore! It fit me really well - I styled it with black heels, and a small black bag from Coach. We were given santa hats upon arrival, so I suppose that was a part of my outfit too haha.

This is a shameless toilet cubicle selfie with the girls in my flat, Tara and Belinda!

These are the reindeer which were brought for the first few hours of the event! They're called Dancer and Prancer (of course), and they are fully grown reindeer, aged 5 and 7. I was able to stroke one and was almost impaled by its antler,  whoops.

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Christmas (Flat) Dinner

The title of this post is slightly misleading, as the early Christmas dinner was not with my flatmates but was with Ollie's flat. Even then, only 4 members of Ollie's flat were present (out of 6), the other 14 of us live elsewhere! Anyway, the chef of Ollie's flat, Charlotte, managed to organise this huge, and yummy, Christmas dinner for all of us. I didn't manage to get many pictures but here are they few that I did:

Veg! I'm 100% sure I'm a roast potato fiend. 

Pigs in blankets. I didn't have any because I do not like bacon, but Ollie said they were 'tender, succulent, juicy, and piggy'.

The mammoth turkey. Still not too sure how it fit in the oven, but glad it did! So yummy.

My plate (left), and Ollie's plate (right). I ended up giving him the sausage and my parsnips, and stole some of his sprouts (and got more turkey). 

Charlotte's homemade berry pavlova. I stole the berries off Ollie's one because I don't like pavlova, but he gave it a solid 10/10.

 Chocolate roulade! This one was made especially for me (aww) because of reasons above. Was so tasty. Chocolate is always a win.

Bye for now,
Ang

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Bag on the Beach!

Hello! I should be sleeping right now, or being productive elsewhere by revising for my mock exam tomorrow, or the essay I have due in 5 days. Instead, I thought I would update you all (not many) on my Saturday night that has just passed. I went to an event called 'Bag on the Beach', and it was basically this lovely movie night, featuring marshmallows, a fire, and a trampoline - all experienced whilst on the beach and facing the sea (not that you can see it in the darkness haha). So my night started with my boyfriend: we went to Spoons for some cheap-ass dinner and a few drinks, then headed on a lovely walk to the beach!

When we got there we saw this:

A screen that was playing short movies. It was blowing in the wind

which was actually quite cool. Haha, get it? Wind? Cool?

A trampoline! IT WAS THE BOUNCIEST TRAMPOLINE EVER.

Such fun. It was lit up pretty too.

A lovely fire sanctuary that was going out at the time I took this photo. It was

cosy to sit by, all snuggled up on a blanket. Plus, free marshmallows!

Although we had to rush to catch the train (that we ended up missing anyway), it was a lovely night. I've only been to the beach a few times in my life, and this is the first time I have been to the beach in the dark. It was incredibly relaxing, so I think I'll be having a few more late night trips to the beach in the near-distant future.

Bye for now,

Ang

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