Catch up

I went out for food with 2 close friends last week to a local pub. We haven't all been together for a long while so we had a LOT of catching up to do. In Comprehensive School we were best friends and were together all the time . When we went to University we grew apart slightly, which I think happens to everyone . But whenever we have a chance to meet up we jump at the chance and end up falling about laughing talking about 'old times'. There is always one story about a baby's pram in Disneyland Paris that always always makes us cry with laughter. Whenever any of us are down we always tell each other to think of that day and we instantly get happier. Every time we go to this pub we all have the same food. Beth has a vegetable lasagna, Biff has a curry with rice and chips, and I have bangers and mash :) DUH! Then for desert they do an amazing chocolate cake so Beth and I shared one and Biff had one to herself  unsurprisingly she ended up leaving a bit though, it was massive!

The mash does look like a dodgy yellow colour, but it wasnt in real life I promise.

Its crazy that now Beth and Biff are looking for full time work. Beth has graduated with a primary school teaching degree, so is on the hunt for a job. Biff went to university but like me didn't enjoy her course and because she doesn't exactly know what she wants to do she is looking for a full time job. Its mad that I would have graduated and been looking for a job myself if I had stayed in UWIC. I've often wondered what would have happened if I had stayed in UWIC or had gone to a different Uni. But I'm so glad I didn't, because otherwise I wouldn't be on my course I'm on now and I wouldn't have had that year out so would never have worked in the pool. Therefore I wouldn't have had that terrible training session in work one week, gone home and applied for camp and then never met Mike. 

Talking of Mike, he will be here in 8 days!!!! AAAAAHHH! I'm so excited, it seems like forever since I've seen him. It'll be so nice to just be able to talk to him properly and hear his voice without skype cutting out. I think as the day gets closer and closer I'm going to have more trouble sleeping. I'll still be as nervous as the first time we spent time together. Even though these 4 months have gone quite quickly looking back and we got to talk a lot more than I though we would, I'm still more than ready for it to be over.


Roll on 8 days!!! <3

Flossy x

Hobby's Birthday

Last week I traveled up to visit and spend a few days with one of my best friends who I met at camp last year. She lives up in the peak district, so basically in the middle of no where . It is absolutely stunning there and a great little drive . On the way up you have to zig zag your way through the countryside and it was a beautiful sunny day so I had to stop and take some pictures.

I absolutely LOVE the countryside, it instantly makes me happy and makes me feel at home. If I move away I think it's one of the things I'll miss the most.

So I finally arrived at Amy's and as soon as I walked into her house something smelt amazingly good! She had only gone and cooked me bangers and mash for dinner! (sausage and mashed potato for anyone who isnt in the know) My all time favourite meal ! Its so simple but so so good. I've only in the last year started to like gravy, safe to say I've have been missing out for years, I'm still not overly comfortable with having it on my plate but I'm sure I'll soon have my food swimming in it. Amy's parents are so nice, as soon as you walk in their house you instantly feel welcomed and relaxed. Amy's dad always says 'If I like you, I'll make jokes about you' so going on that, it looks like I'm in :)

Yummy!

I had booked Amy and I a day in a spa the following day, so after food we left and drove to the hotel. It was quite late when we got there so we jumped straight into our pyjamers got into bed and watched Miss Congeniality. That film never gets old. I had bought face masks too thinking it would be fun to put them on while we watched a film. How wrong I was. They stunk so bad! They were meant to be chocolate ones, now I've eaten a lot of chocolate in my life and I can safely say I have never had any that smelt like that. I was ready to take it off as soon as i put it on. Still we found a use for them we ended up having a fight with them so the smelly stuff got everywhere, we didn't really think it through first because then for the rest of our stay the room stunk of the gross chocolate.

The price you pay for beauty.

The next morning we went over the road to a Frankie and Benny's for breakfast and I had a lush sausage and bacon roll. But they used American bacon, WHY!?! It doesn't have any meat on it, its just stringy bits of fat grr. It all went down the same way though gobble gobble :)

We got to the spa, had to sign a few forms, got a guided tour and issued our robes and slippers :)

When I think of a spa day I think of laying by the pool going in the jacuzzi, sauna and steam room. I should have know that wouldn't be the case when Amy's eyes lit up when she saw the gym. Amy plays for Loughbrough University 1st ladies hockey team. Loughbrough is one of the top 3 Universities in the whole of the UK for sport. In order to get accepted into the uni you have to play sport at an extremely high standard like internationally. So that might give you some sort of idea of how sporty and active Amy is. We were in the gym for 3 whole hours! Amy was proper going for it while I was pedaling at a 'slow but steady' pace on the bike making the most of the games you could play on the TV. I just like to play around in the gym which I know is dangerous, but come on some of them machines are funny! I found a really good ab one that almost bent you in half, so I played on that for a while . The ones that work your thighs should be called weapons of torture! But I think my favourite one I found was the power plate. This I think is what clarified in Amy's head that she will never go back to the gym with me . I had heard about them before and how good they were, so I jumped straight on and pressed auto start. EVERYTHING vibrates, even my eyeballs were shaking, I couldn't see a thing! I started laughing at one stage, and I don't have the quietest of laughs anyway add that to the fact I laugh more at inappropriate times and when I know I shouldn't be laughing . My belly laugh had come out, everyone in the gym was looking and Amy was stood there hanging her head in shame.
        Moral of the day: Never go to a gym with me!

After that it was finally time for our treatments, we could choose from a back, neck and shoulder massage or a facial massage with a neck shoulder and scalp massage in it. We both choose the facial. We had a partner treatment room so the lady's who were doing our treatments left us to get ready and lay on the beds and then came in when we were ready. Neither Amy or I have had anything like this before so we didn't exactly know how to lie or to lie over or under the towels. We eventually decided on underneath the towels and face up, turns out we were right :) The treatment was 45 minutes long, but it went so quick. The lady's asked us about our skin first and what kind of problems we had with it, from acne to black circles under our eyes. Then they adapted the facial and creams they would use to that. I was clever and said I had a whole load of problems so I had lots of creams put on me while Amy only had 1 or 2. It was really relaxing and the neck shoulder and scalp massage was lovely. I think I should have just chosen the massage though.

After our treatments we went down to the jacuzzi, steam room and sauna. I dont know why but there is something off putting about getting in a jacuzzi full on old men. So when we walked towards it and saw that we quickly diverted to the steam room. When we saw the jacuzzi empty we seized our opportunity and took over it. We did a few lengths in the pool before going back to the changing rooms to go home . It was a really nice day and gave Amy and I loads of time to gossip and chat to catch up on the 6 months we hadn't seen each other.

That night England were playing Wales in football. So we found a local pub that was showing the game, went back to the hotel to shower and change before going there to eat and watch the match. We both ended up falling asleep and so ended up getting to the pub at half time. I absolutely love pub lunches. I think pub food is sooo good. We both ordered burgers and because I hadn't had one is so long I was really excited. The burger was gross. Me and Amy ended up leaving most of it = gutted! But what can you expect for 2 for £8. After the match there was a live band. A group of 4 boys played a 20/30 minute set. They were actually pretty good, we were both kinda scared to begin with because they looked like they were going to play hard core rock stuff, but they played some of their own songs and then one or two that I actually recognized. We ended up walking back to the hotel which took us about a hour, then had a mass jumping on the bed session. We were trying to take pictures of us flying in the air, but failed miserably. We got a few funny ones though.

The next morning we had a lovely lie in, packed everything up and went to meet Amy's mum. The drive back home was okay, I dont like driving long distances I get bored really easily, but Radio 1 kept me company and I had a great sing along. Hopefully next time I wont have to wait so long to see Amy.

Flossy x

Family celebrations

The other weekend my cousins threw a surprise party for my Aunty and Uncle's 30th wedding anniversary at their farm. They were lucky it remained a secret for that long, even though on the top of the invitations it said 'Surprise Party' my Dad was so close to ringing them to let them know we would be attending! Honestly leave him alone for a few hours and who knows what he would get up to.

So the day of my party, my Dad decided to fix some of the broken floorboards in the house, everyone who knows my family knows about his famous green tank top, it's probably older than me . We all know some serious DIY or 'manly stuff' is about to be done when the green vest comes out. He even wore it out.. in public! To Style Force of all places, the name of the place could not be more ironic for his outfit. Then he went over the farm to help set up the tents and gazebo's...IN THE VEST. I don't think my cousins had ever seen it before so it was a feast for their eyes.

They had done such a good job on it all. When we got there they had 2 or 3 big tents up in the garden lit up with fairy lights, with table and chairs all around and a lush buffet laid out. It's a shame it was absolutely tipping down with rain. Half way through the night the tents started leaking so we had lovely waterfalls. Us 'youngsters' all sat on a table in the corner and chatted and joked all night. I always have a really nice time with them all and their boyfriends and husbands. They are all good friends anyway so they all joke around between themselves and make fun of each other.

To give you a little insight on what kind of stuff we talk about at our family gatherings these were our findings for the night.... you can pinch the skin on your elbow as hard as possible and you wont feel anything. Alex kindly volentered to show Dai (who refused to believe it was true) it was real by pushing a fork into Dai's elbow. Don't worry no one was harmed during the experiments. Also the length of your forearm is the size of your shoe (HINT: don't try this when you've been walking around on wet soggy mud). And our last discovery which I found amazing.. is that girls have an ability that boys dont.. apart from multitasking. Girls are able to put their hands flat on their shoulders, unlike boys. Believe it it's true.. LOOK!

Yet more proof we are the superior sex :)


It wouldn't have been a night out unless I had a blonde moment at some stage . About half way through the night, I could feel my head tilting to one side and my ear hurting, so I went to feel it and realised I had two very very different earnings in. One was a big pink flower and the other was a heart stud that Mike had bought me . I tried to slowly take them both out without anyone noticing but Alex my cousin's boyfriend noticed what I was doing and quickly announced it to everyone.. queue the jokes! What made it even worse is that before I left the house I had photo's taken, and no one noticed! Safe to say them pictures have been deleted.

I love family celebrations...roll on Christmas :)

Flossy x