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Surprise!

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When I found out Cesca and David were coming home early from their travels, I was SO excited to get my friends back. But then I found out they were only home for 1 week, before going off again on another adventure – the 900 mile walk from Land’s End to John O’Groats.  Knowing they were a bit bummed about having to come home, and only having a week to catch up with everyone, I messaged her mum and between us we planned a surprise coming home party.  It was brilliant!! A lot of planning went in to keeping it a surprise, with her mum pretending she was away for the week so that Cesca wouldn’t turn up at her house, friends putting them off the scent by making excuses as to why they couldn’t see her that day, I even had to pretend to David that I needed his Dad to come and look at my boiler as an excuse to get his Dad in my house for the party. So much food! Everyone really pulled together and brought masses of food and drink and when they arrived and we shouted ‘surprise’, t

How To Travel Good

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This is me and Amy "travelling good" You can tell I spent a long time choosing the title of this post , “how to travel good”.  It’s really good I am putting my English degree to good use, isn’t it.   Anyways, this post is about how the internet can help you plan and travel in the most economical way possible.  I have my own holy trinity of travel tools, but I’ll list a few more options I also use when booking my trips away.  I hope you find this useful!   Overall “you should use this all the time” website Top Cashback is EXCELLENT.  I have been using it for the past 3 years perhaps, and every time I buy something online (whether it’s clothes, toiletries, train tickets, hotel bookings, flight bookings, insurance – ANYTHING) I log onto my top cashback account and see if the retailer has signed up to the cashback scheme.  If it has, then I buy from the retailer Via the cashback site, and low and behold I get some nice moneys deposited into my account.

Some things I have been doing

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The other week I met Sepha in Lincoln Fields park in the glorious sunshine.  We drank canned G&Ts (honestly, whoever invented those needs a medal) and soaked up the sun before heading off to the Peacock theatre to see Traces.  Our original plan was to play squash and go swimming but I saw Traces was on sale at a tenner a ticket and it sounded much more appealing than exercise! It was really good and I would recommend it,  Sepha, who has never seen it before, thought it was excellent.  It's a predominantly gymnastics based show, so they were running and jumping and spinning and flipping all about the place.  It was really good, but this year's had a bit more interpretive dance than usual and I didn't enjoy it quite as much as the other two I have seen. On Saturday I took my car for it's first MOT with me - thank the Lord, it passed!  I was quite surprised (as I have been with every car I have ever owned when it's passed) then headed off to Covent Garden for a

Dreams

Dreams are funny things aren’t they.  I tend to dream in full surround sound HD TV mode, and often recall them and sometimes get confused between reality and what I dreamed.    One time when I was on holiday in Portugal with my ex-boyfriend, I woke up screaming telling him to get the bugs off my pillow.  He was very confused as we had only just gone to sleep and there weren’t any bugs, but in my dream (set in the bed in the villa we were staying in) there were scarab beetles running all over my pillow.  I had the same dream the following day but it was ants this time. Weird huh! I had a dream last night that followed a recurring theme, and when I think about it, I have several recurring dream themes, which I will bore you with below.  On doing some research (well, googling) it turns out my dreams aren't that unique and people often have their own versions of the following dreams.  The dream last night was set in my old secondary school (god bless the C corridor) but featur

A weekend in Madrid

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This weekend I went to go visit Martin in Madrid.  He’s been there 3 years now and for some reason everyone has decided 2015 is the year to visit – he’s just played host to his sister and the boys, so is well versed in playing tour guide. It was an exceptionally cheap weekend away – my flights cost 98p (98p! let me repeat that - 98p!!!!!!!!!!) as I bought them using my ten years worth of Nectar points, and I was crashing on his floor, so no accommodation costs. Brill! Getting there was very stressful – I had booked an easybus as there was meant to be a train strike (which later was cancelled), the easybus was 20 mins late in arriving, then got stuck in traffic, leaving me with 25 minutes to get from the bus depot to my gate before it closed.  However on the journey I did see a fight with men throwing chairs at each other, so there’s that. I spent the bus journey frantically googling ‘how long to get through Gatwick security’ and ‘what do I do if I miss my flight’ and whatsapping