London and Kate Nash

HEY so this weekend I went to London to go to the City University open day. I stayed with my sister in Wimbledon which was nice because I don't get to see her very often. I went up Friday evening and came back Sunday evening, and went to the open day on Saturday. The university is so nice, I want to go there more than anything because it's in the top 5% of unis in the country AND I've always wanted to live in London. However, accommodation at the cheapest is £180 a week and even with the extra money you get if you study in London I really don't think I can afford that. Aw.

As well as going to the university we went to Ed's diner which is the best place ever (google it, it's basically a mock 50s diner) and I had a coke float and a Smokey Joe's burger and sweet potato fries and it was just perfect. Nice food makes me so happy. We also wandered around Roehampton which is a really nice area and there's another university there, and I made lasagne which I was really proud of because I'm terrible at cooking.

This is my coke float. Yum. You can see some of the fries too. Yum yum.

There was slight awkwardness as my sister had had a huge argument with my dad just before I went up there and she kept sneaking in little comments about him. I ignored them. It has nothing to do with me. Personally I think they're both childish. But luckily it didn't affect the weekend too much.

Then Monday I went to see Kate Nash at Thekla with my friend. I went to hers beforehand and got drunk off a bottle of pear cider...yep I'm a mess. I've never been to a more emotional gig in my whole life. I'd lost most of my excitement about the whole thing to be honest because Kate had posted a new song on YouTube a few weeks ago that was quite frankly shit and I was worried she'd just be playing loads of new stuff. She varied between old and new though and even the new stuff was really good, she performed so well. At the end it was obvious there wasn't meant to be an encore because everything was being packed away, but no one was leaving so she came back on and sang a lullaby type thing completely acapella and it was so beautiful. She had tears in her eyes the whole time, she must of been so nervous and overwhelmed. I honestly just wanted to give her a hug. She's perfect. I have a lot of respect for her. There was a crazy guy there who was head banging the whole time and a couple who kept kissing and touching eachother in front of us. Ah, people at gigs.

I want to go to another gig.

Tae Kwon DO

Recently I realised I have no hobbies. I mean, I read quite a lot but that's about it. So I decided to start something new. I asked (okay made) my friend start tae kwon do with me and it was actually really fun. There's a fourteen year old black belt which was pretty intimidating but maybe I'll be there one day...

We basically learnt loads of self defence and where to hit people to get away quicker (the crotch basically). Before we started though we did warm ups which were embarassingly exhausting, and when they started doing push-ups I just gave up completely. It's definitely going to force me to get fitter.

I'm excited to go again on Friday.

Hi I'm new and I'm going to talk about my niece

Okay well I'm not really new, but I cleared all my old posts to start afresh! Basically I decided to blog about my life, because I can. And I'm sick of Tumblr again.

Well I got back from Taunton this morning after staying at my brother Nick's house with my dad for a couple of days. He's a single father to a two year old girl, which I think is amazing. It also happens that my niece is the most adorable thing in the whole world. Her name is Robyn and she's so polite and lovely and I just love her so much. She really loves me as well. I slept in the same room as her and this morning I woke up to her climbing into my bed and cuddling up to me, and when her dad made her sit at the table to eat her toast she told me to "stay there!" while she ate so she could sit on my lap and watch Cbeebies afterwards. So cute. Me and Dad had to look after her one evening when Nick went to work which was hilarious, since neither of us can change nappies. You'd think my dad would have some kind of idea after having five kids...

We took her to her auntie's house (my sister) before we left because she gets restless on long car journeys and as Nick was carrying her up the path she was shouting "LOVE YOU SHEV, LOVE YOU GRANDAD!" I actually miss her so much, but I'm glad she lives relatively near (about a one hour car journey) so we get to see her quite often.

I do feel sorry for her though, growing up in Taunton. It's one of the most boring places I've ever been to and so far away from everything. The town centre place isn't that bad but it's so small. Maybe I only think like that because I've lived a 15 minute walk away from the centre of Bristol my whole life, but it definitely made me realise I always want to live in a big city. I think I'd go crazy if I didn't.

I've basically slept for the whole of today because I've been sleeping really badly lately. I still feel a bit tired and ill though, which is annoying because I have so much coursework to do, and I still haven't finished my EPQ (a 5000 word essay that was really meant to be finished months ago). Oh well. Here's a picture of Robyn and me that you can aww at. (Not a new one, because every time I tried to take a picture of us this weekend she'd try and take the phone off me saying she wanted to take it).