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25 Fun Facts About Me

25 Fun Facts About Me!

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Today I have leveled up to 25 (!!), yep I’ve been on this planet for a quarter of the century now and while there is a mild panic that I am now closer to 30 than 20, I’m hoping this will be a good year. So, for tonight’s post I thought I’d let you in on 25 fun facts about me you might not know!

  • I once had a meal with Trevor McDonald as part of a uni event, we bonded over how much we enjoyed George Ezra’s music.
  • I have had 9 hamsters in my life Lampie, Hamski, Noodle, Wickett have all passed on to the rainbow bridge and currently I have BB, Artoo, Wompa, Nymeria and Ghost with Ali.
  • Speaking of, I met Ali at 13 years old, I’ve been a little bit in love with him ever since.
  • I didn’t realise I loved academics until much later for my GCSE options I chose Music, Art, Drama and Textiles – I wanted to take dance but it wouldn’t fit with my schedule (also my knees were buggered).
  • I have Hypermobility meaning my joints are super bendy – I still can’t do the splits though. 🤔
  • I would rather read than do almost anything else.
  • I don’t drink coffee.
  • Pop-punk is one of my favourite genres and Ali makes playlists for us full of awesome new stuff.
  • When I was a kid I dreamed of being in musicals on the West End stage… then I found rock music.
  • I didn’t have a Tequila shot until my 24th birthday…I wish I hadn’t.
  • If I had one moment to go back in time I’d go and watch Queen live at Wembley.
  • I have a BA in English Literature and while I was studying it was my ambition to get a PhD and become a lecturer.
  • I was in bands from the age of 16 to 21 as a vocalist.
  • My aim for every year is to read 100 books.
  • My first concert was in 1999, I saw the Spice Girls at Earls Court in London.
  • I love vintage fashion, 1950s style dresses are my favourite.
  • I once met Carrie Fisher, I was so excited she had her dog Gary with her that I said hello to Gary first. 🙈
  • I am desperate to have my own dog, it’s the first thing I’m going to sort out when we have a house. Thankfully, I have my lovely Lottie at my parents house and a load of dogs at Ali’s mum’s house so I’m covered.
  • My Myers Briggs result is an INFJ – most people are surprised I’m an introvert.
  • My Netflix account ‘watched’ list is a mix of stand up comedy, true crime documentaries and comedy tv shows I’ve seen a million times before.
  • I think the 80s was the best time for films, I’m also really keen on music from the time. Basically, I would have loved to have grown up in the 80s.
  • My big life ambition is to write a book.
  • It took me 5 attempts to pass my driving test.
  • My family are super into Disney. I grew up watching Disney films on repeat, have been to Disneyland Paris 6 times, Orlando 3 time and I’m going again for my honeymoon.
  • Being 25 makes me feel nervous, it feels a little bit too grown up for me!

And that’s 25! What are some interesting facts about you? Let me know in the comments below! 👇

21 Things about me!

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If you haven’t seen already all over my Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, today is my 21st Birthday! Yippie!! So while I’m out celebrating with friends and family I thought it would be cute/fun to write a list of 21 facts about me! Enjoy!

  1. I’ve grown up to be a little traveller 

I’ve been going abroad since I was 3 years old. So far I’ve visited Paris 5 times, various parts of greece around 8 times, Amsterdam, Spain, the USA 3 times, Italy and that’s just a few! Next up, going back to the US, Australia and New Zealand as well as other parts of europe.

2. I once broke my toe by dropping a place of Chinese on it

If that’s not a waste of food I don’t know what is.

3. Jodi Picoult told me I was a writer in person. 

It was possibly one of the best moments of my life.

4. I’ve only just watched the Star Wars Trilogy

…Yup, I’m sorry.

5. I’m shorter than I was for my 20th birthday 

Yes, really. When I broke my back, my spine lost height meaning I’m a little shorter than I was before!

6. My Mum had loaded up to do a car boot sale the night she went into labour with me. 

Yeah, she wasn’t impressed.

7. My family thought I’d be an escape artist growing up… 

I used to get through anything, reins on the pram, chairs, playpens, you name it I was out.

8. When I was three I wanted a tattoo of the kids TV show Tots TV. 

9. …I also told my parents I wanted to be a topless model at the same age, because I thought the ladies in the paper were pretty.

10. I thought INSET day was insect day… 

In the UK that’s our day off school for teacher training, before I started school I thought it meant you took insects into school to show off.

11. I have a huge Harry Potter collection 

It lives under the stairs at my parents house, in my room and in my flat. I don’t think it’s ever going to stop growing.

12. I’m a hobbit. 

That was one of my nicknames at college….it didn’t help that my boyfriend told everyone I had hairy toes -.-.

13. I was obsessed with dolphins growing up, I even got to play with them once. 

14. 18 is my favourite number.

My birthday, an even number, what’s not to love?

15. I didn’t start using make up properly until I started at university. 

Hence why I’m not a beauty blogger and get so excited when I find things now.

16. Blue is my favourite colour. 

Seriously if I could I’d have blue everything, headphones, car, phone, if there’s ever a choice most of the time it’ll be blue.

17. I love strawberry flavoured things but hate eating real strawberries. 

I’m a bit weird.

18. Pasta is the best staple food there is and if you don’t believe that you are wrong. 

I could eat pasta every day and still be in love with it, cheese is a great topper.

19. My first ever concert was The Spice Girls Winter Tour in 1999

Victoria Beckham smiled and waved at me, it was the best moment of my 5 year old life.

20. I’m pretty handy with my toes

I can pick almost anything up with my toes, it’s a pretty cool skill to have.

21. It’s one of my goals in life to learn sign language

I honestly think it’s one of the most beautiful languages in the world

7 years, 7 facts

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I’ve been lucky enough to spend the past 7 years with a wonderful human called Ali 🙂 He features in my posts quite a lot so for our anniversary I thought I’d put together 10 random facts about us! Oh and dont forget the cute  embarrassing pictures to go with each of them! I promise this won’t be too sickly sweet!

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Fact 1: We’re in a band together! Yes, Ali is one of the members of No People Club. We write a lot of songs together and have been in various bands together for the past few years. Before I was ever in a band with him I used to help out with his band at school.

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Fact 2: We’re both perfectionists in very different ways. Ali will spend hours over a mix (he’s training to be a sound engineer), like I will an assignment. If we both have something to do in the same week it can get a little tense.

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Fact 3: I have never and hopefully will never see Paramore without Ali. We both absolutely LOVE the band and have been to a show every time we’ve known about it. This is a picture of us from our first Paramore show in 2010!

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Fact 4: There is no shame in this relationship. One of the pros and cons of being together since we were young teenagers is that we’ve seen each other go through the awkward teenage years, there’s not much left to be embarrassed about. 406334_10150721436408206_1359220205_n

Fact 5: I’m the crazy one, he’s the quiet one.

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Fact 6: There was a huge group of us who would count down for Ali’s house parties when we were teenagers. They were awesome with the best memories we could make(some of which I can’t share on here because they’re pretty awesome but we would not like to reach the parents of the people that went). It was like a classic ‘high school’ american party but with better music and ordering domino’s pizza. The picture is of us from his 16th birthday party.

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Fact 6: After getting me to look into uni, Ali then had a gap year so we could start at the same time, even though at that point we weren’t sure if we were going to the same uni.

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Fact 7: Ali missed his prom, instead he say at home with me (I was a year too young to go)  watching TV, building lego and eating pizza before going to a friends afterparty. He was the first person I told when I got accepted.

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Happy Anniversary Ali, I love you! 

P.S I’m totally not sorry that I posted these pictures, you’re welcome 😛 

21 Things to know about my Mum

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Today is my amazing Mum’s birthday!! I don’t need to tell you again how much I love her and how much she does for me on a daily basis (including having to push me around town on her birthday, sorry Mum!). So my Mum is eternally 21 or younger in her head so I thought I’d share 21 things instead of the age she actually is today *cough 42, cough*.

1. My Mum couldn’t drink on her 21st birthday because she was growing me and stuff.

2. Her first school shoes were purple heels, the rebellion begins.

3. She likes Marmite…that’s gross.

4. She has smaller feet than me…

5. …oh and she’s tiny, even shorter than me!

6. Pink is Mums colour, always, always pink.

7. She could drink almost all of my friends under the table.

8. For a long time she called Instagram, Instragram…oh Mum

9. She wanted to be a mechanic while she was growing up

10. Disney is her favourite place, in the world, ever.

11. She has the strange ability to get any animal to misbehave

12. My Mum is the reason I love live music! She’s been taking me to concerts since I was 4! Actually the first was while I was still in her belly.

13. She was a slight demon child to her siblings, my aunt has the proof

14. My Mum’s a FIGHTER! She’ll kick your butt

15. Madonna, everything Madonna.

16. She’s more than a little bit in love with David Beckham

17. Oh and Johnny Depp

18. But she’s been with my Dad for 22 years ( I think)

19. My love of red lipstick comes from my Mum

20. You always hear my Mum coming down the road in the car because of the music blasting from it.

21. She’s the most incredible woman you’ll ever meet and I’m so lucky she’s mine ❤

6 things about my amazing Nanna

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Mum and Nanna last christmas

As much as I wanted a charmingly embarrassing picture of me and my Nanna from when I was little, I think they’re all been hidden, she’s pretty glam my Nan. So today is her 65th birthday and I could write pages and pages about this lovely lady I wanted to do one for the 6 and a half decades she’s been on this planet.

1. I don’t know anyone who loves pink more! 

If in doubt, go with pink. That’s just Nanna’s way.

2. She was able to put up with The Jungle Book and 101 Dalmations on repeat. every.single.day. 

So after I was born my Mum and I lived with my grandparents until I was almost 3 years old, while my Mum had to go to work I’d stay with Nanna. She must have watched those two films so many times and half memorised them that along with Tots TV, Come Outside, Noddy and so many more. Oh and there were farm trips too 😀

3. When I was younger she could make me fall asleep within 5 minutes 

Stroking my face and giving me a cuddle and I was out like a light…could still work now to be fair.

4. She’s a great peace maker

Every time I needed new school shoes, Nanna had to come because we NEVER agreed. While me and Mum would almost start world war 3 in the Clarks kids section, Nanna somehow smoothed it over before coffee and cake after.

5. She knows me a lot better than most people

I’m not girly unlike my Mum, Aunt, Sister and Cousins but that doesn’t mean that Nanna doesn’t know what I’ll like. We might not agree on clothes (in fact we rarely do) but Micheal Kors handbags and designer watches? Nanna knows me all over!

6. She’s the best Nanna you could ever ask for

And I mean that too, there is absolutely no one else like my Nanna. She’s there, always, she can damn stand up for herself, she’s strong, she’s kind and I’m sorry guys but she’s mine.

Happy Birthday, I love you so much xx

Getting to know me

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When I was younger I had an obsession with long personality questionnaires, I wasn’t alone we all went a bit mad. I found one online today which isn’t basic but I think will give you all a little bit more of an idea about me. I’m hoping to do some more of these later on and maybe some student ones! If you have any ideas post them in the comments section below.

Who do you work with that you really respect? 

I have a friend at uni called Sonia, she’s totally honest and works hard. She gets a lot of stick from other people but refuses to change herself to make people like her. I really respect that about her.

Who is there that makes you want to be a better person? 

My boyfriend, definitely. He tells me when I’m right and he tells me when I’m wrong. He’s absolutely brilliant with me especially when he knows that I can do better. I want to be the best person I can be for him because of everything he does for m.
Who is the most dependable person in your life? 

Umm again I think it would be my boyfriend.
If you had a year off with pay, what would you do?

I’d spend half of it travelling across the world, hopefully with my band and the other half in internships for jobs I really want so when I came back I could have a better shot at a job I really wanted apart from being a musician.

Where is the funniest place you have ever fallen asleep.
On the floor of my boyfriends bathroom…twice.

Who is the best living guitar player?
That’s a really tricky one! I love so many…too tough!

On a scale of 1 to 10, how happy are you with your life right now?
I’d say about a 6/7 really want it to go up though.

What makes you laugh?

My friends ‘Amy moments’ are the highlight of my week.

What is the first thing you think about when you wake up in the morning? 

How long I have until I really have to get up

How old where you when you realized you are lucky?

I wouldn’t say there was an age, I think I started to appreciate things and people more around the time I moves to uni so around 18/19

If you had your own TV network what would you put on it?

Lots of comedy, bands and some great life documentary’s NO SPORT. Pretty much BBC3 minus the football.

What motivates you to exercise?

Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

What Olympic sport would you like to try?

Ice Skating! My boyfriend and his sister done it for sport when they were young and I would love to just be able to stay off my bum!

What is the largest crowd you have ever been in?

Definitely at a gig.

When was the last time you said “I am glad I do not have that job”?

Uni bus drivers when they get a load of attitude when people are running late.

If you could have lunch with anyone living who would it be?

Hayley Williams, J.K Rowling, Jodi Picoult, Jenna McDougall, Tay Jardine..can I have more people!!

What is your idea of heaven?

A nice big family house which has a library, swimming pool and recording studio.

If you could spend five minutes with the president what would you talk about? 

Something fun and silly, let him have five minutes off!

What small town would you like to live in?

I don’t know if I would…I would go mad.

What is your favorite thing about your dad?

I have a note on my wall from my last day or secondary school that I had to go to. It pretty much said to keep my head up, it meant a lot to me.

Who was your best friend growing up?

I had a friend called Kara and a friend called Jordan who now lives in Australia!

If you could ask one person one question and get a completely honest answer who would it be and what would you ask? 

All I’m going to say is I’d ask someone why so that I knew for sure and could move on.

When in your life have you had a “now or never” moment?

Umm I’m not sure off the top of my head.

What was the first professional sporting event you went to?

Golf. I paid no attention but met Gary Linaker