I love Heaton life!

Moving house has made me a shadow of my former self. I am creatively, emotionally, mentally and physically exhausted. BUT after a ridiculous month of bubble wrapping, dusting and bruising, at 2 o'clock in the early hours of last Friday morning; the move was completed. Me, mum and Tabby said goodbye to many memories of life spent in Whitley Bay and eloped up to Heaton in a car full of plant pots. I'm now learning to use the bus, fainting unexpectedly in ceramics classes and enjoying the long-awaited Neighbours marathon. The cat's settled which is all that matters, happiness seems to make her fur softer as well. She is my life inspiration. But anyway, the new place has a spy hole on the door! eeeh, Heaton has and is everything, I love my new home.

Best Gig Moments

• Gold confetti at the end of Arctic Monkey's 505
• Flashing messages like "Are you ready?" before Pulp and Jarvis' confetti canister at the end of Common People
• Maximo Park playing Postcard Of A Painting for me
• Red Hot Chili Pepper's playing Under The Bridge as I realised everything that had ever happened in my life
• Discovering hidden hip hop dance skills in House Of Pain's Jump Around
• Fireworks during Paul McCartney's Live And Let Die
• Reinacting The Cure's Why Can't I Be You dance moves with a new friend, plus Simon's bass at the end of A Forest and Robert shouting "HELLO!?" in Wrong Number
• Heck, I'm SO lucky!!!

No fuss, just love

Angles by The xx is beautiful and magical and honest and fragile and I really like it. Like Warpaint, I don't know how they do it but I like how they do it. As cheesy as it sounds, Angles has made me think about love for the first time and I've realised that people, myself included, use the word love without knowing what it means. Once you begin to understand the enormity of 'love', there is really no way of explaining love, or making another believe in love. The xx seem to have somehow worked this out before me and the simplicity of the lyrics "Being as in love with you as I am" are amplified to mean as much, if not more, than a fantastical and metaphorical and huge declaration of dramatic emotion; when all of that can be conveyed in the integral word of 'love'. 'Love' is all that needs to be said because it's enough, and that's very refreshing to hear.

Hello! I am so deeply sorry to you lovely lot that read this for the lack of attention I have given my blog recently. Quite simply my life has been too exciting! I'm kidding, the only reasons I can think for neglecting this are exams, coursework, house moving, life and another blog I made in secret. When I get a chance though I really want to put more things on here so as Miranda's posh friend from Bridgette Jones would say: 'bare with'. Non the less, above is a little blog I've just gone and done :)

Now my life is free from the worry of literary devices and media terminology, this weekend saw the celebration of freedom in the form of rambles through the countryside rain; dodging pot holes in the dark, trench foot from a nice boggy walk, a lovely presentation about the Northern Lights (from a man who pronounced 'because' in a very unique way), very dramatic and humorous re-enactments of nature programmes, bed and breakfasts and a frog!

(and lots of bunting) We had a great time! Here is some photographic evidence and everything:

some of my favourite people!