Peaks and troughs

What is this?! Two blogs in one week!? Deep.
So life is full of highs and lows, something bad happens, but then something good happens and it's counteracted, and vice versa. It's the same in our flat, usually when Josh adds something weird i.e a rabbit skull (low), and then I add something to balance it out i.e a candle (high). This time, its something a bit closer to heart - our herb table is dying :(

I was so proud when we purchased our herbs a mere two weeks ago - finally we were going to have some foliage in our house, we were on our way to becoming gardening extraordinaires! Unfortunately, after only a week we noticed our coriander was suffering, and not even discretely - it had dramatically sprawled itself over the table - clearly the herbs were greener on the other side. This was swiftly followed by the basil - a refreshing burst of green in amongst the less exciting herbs - until a couple of days ago when it followed in the footsteps of the star-crossed coriander.

They are literally dropping like flies. Low point.

But this is where I get to the peak - we have a new and exciting addition to our flat which counteracts the sadness of the passing herbs - we have windowsill flowers! (This is the point where I realise how dull my life must sound to everyone else)

We are now the proud owners of actual proper outdoor flowers, and they're alive! Plus they're going to grow up to be daffodils and hyancinths, how flipping pretty and Spring-y is that?! The only thing I'm sad about is that they haven't got their flowers yet so I can't show you an impressive picture of how awesome they look, but don't fear, I will in good time.

So that's my lesson for the week, you've got to take the highs with the lows, and when all else fails, make your own highs! Not in a weird way, buy yourself some flowers or something.

Amy x

For Ed

This post is dedicated to Ed, one of my most avid followers who has frequently reminded me to update my blog in recent times - I've done it Ed!

So there's rather a lot to catch up on, I'm on my final school placement at the moment in Pulborough, which is absolutely amazing but does mean I don't really have much free time to keep you all up to date, or to have any glimmer of a social life at all! But with only 3 weeks left (and a lot of prompting from Ed), I have decided to give a whistle stop tour of everything that has been happening over the past few weeks/months.

Firstly I celebrated my 22nd birthday, which I was approaching with a feeling of dismay until I discovered Taylor Swift's song '22', which really put it all into perspective for me and quite literally turned my life around.

We have also celebrated Christmas, which in my opinion is just the best day of the year. Cheesy as this may be, I just love the fact that everyone is so nice to each other, even if just for that one day. Plus there's the excitement of seeing people's faces when they open their presents and the amazing food and fairy lights and decorations everywhere, the Christmas CD which is played exclusively from 1st December (much to Josh's frustration) - I'm basically in my element.

Out of principle, we bought our tree on the 1st December, and it's actually still up. I like switching the tree lights on and watching films in 'the perfect light', and it makes me feel happy to walk into the lounge early in the mornings and see it sat there by the window, and even Josh has decided it won't do us any harm to go against the flow and keep it up for as long as possible, so for the time being it's staying up :)

I made that wreath! To be fair it looks a lot better in the photo than it ever did in real life.

Our flat has started looking so homely as more and more things get added, look how good it looks now!

Josh and I also had a go at a Christmas Eve dinner as we spent Christmas day with the family, and made some cute gingerbread cookies and mince pie pinwheels as well, although I forgot to take a picture of those so there won't be any recipes going up any time soon!

Non-Christmassy things have been added around the flat too - it's definitely gaining a personality, and compromise is still a prominent feature which can be observed in various spots!

Also another thing I need to tell you - we went to Devon! We stayed in an amazing hotel called the Horn of Plenty (clearly chosen by Josh!) which was right near the border to Cornwall, so we visited loads of fossilly beaches and pretty towns and ate good food, and went to the Eden Project there. Now, this is the part where I want to show you loads of amazing pictures that I took while we were there. The only problem is our camera focus was playing up so nearly all the pictures we took are blurry, plus the battery decided to conk out after about 5 photos. So here's my best effort, it's literally the only photographic evidence of our holiday!

But apart from that I think all there is left to say for now is Happy (belated) Christmas and hope you have a great New Year :)

Amy x