My friend Nathan has finally started his new blog, and this is the link for you readers to enjoy :P
http://daysinthelifeofnjg.blogspot.co.uk/
So we got 'The Host' on Blu-ray yesterday, but it was late when we got it last night so we haven't watched it yet, as my mum and I could only find the DVD in town, but from the book we had both read we knew we'd only have blu-ray for the awesome scenery, so we traveled from Trowbridge at around nine and over to Chippenham when we couldn't find a blu-ray there, and we finally got the blu-ray at Asda in Chippenham :D
Will be watching the film tonight so expect a review soon-ish.
Tuesday 30 July 2013
Monday 29 July 2013
Photo of the Day
Sunday 28 July 2013
Photo(s) of the Day
The weather here has been very...temperamental, busy and all over the place recently, and since I've been helping my mum with her dog walking buisness at Pack on Track, I've been stuck in it - the upside being there have been some great photographing opportunities. It's pretty late today and since I haven't done my photo of the day thing yet, I figured I would just show you a few of my best pictures taken from today, enjoy!
Top Twenty Songs
So "The Host" film is coming out in shops tomorrow, and I'll definitely be buying it asap since the book by Stephanie Meyer was so good, and it has a great cast, including the person who played as Adam, Sam and Dean's brother in Supernatural, so expect a film (and possibly a book) review soon.
I'm also dying my hair, probably in the next few days, again not permanent hair dye (I've only ever used temporary), just a 28 washes one, and again it's a red colour, and I'll be showing before and after pictures on here once it's been done.
In the meantime though, a list of twenty of my favourite songs at the moment (not in any order):
1.) Six Degrees of Separation - The Script
2.) Love Somebody - Maroon 5
3.) Love Me Again - John Newman
4.) People Like Us - Kelly Clarkson
5.) La La La - Naughty Boy
6.) Forever and Always - Taylor Swift
7.) Carry On My Wayward Son - Kansas
8.) Let Her Go - Passenger
9.) Rules - Jayme Dee
10.) Livingston - Go
11.) Karmin - Brokenhearted
12.) White Demon Love Song - The Killers
13.) Good Ol' Days - The Script
14.) Lose Yourself cover - The Script
15.) Come and Get it - Selena Gomez
16.) If I Die Young - Band Perry
17.) Kiss You Inside Out - Hedley
18.) One Life - Hedley
19.) Invincible - Hedley
20.) Eyes Open - Taylor Swift
My favourite singer of all time would be Taylor Swift, and my best two bands are Hedley and The Script. Thanks for Reading, see ya! :)
I'm also dying my hair, probably in the next few days, again not permanent hair dye (I've only ever used temporary), just a 28 washes one, and again it's a red colour, and I'll be showing before and after pictures on here once it's been done.
In the meantime though, a list of twenty of my favourite songs at the moment (not in any order):
1.) Six Degrees of Separation - The Script
2.) Love Somebody - Maroon 5
3.) Love Me Again - John Newman
4.) People Like Us - Kelly Clarkson
5.) La La La - Naughty Boy
6.) Forever and Always - Taylor Swift
7.) Carry On My Wayward Son - Kansas
8.) Let Her Go - Passenger
9.) Rules - Jayme Dee
10.) Livingston - Go
11.) Karmin - Brokenhearted
12.) White Demon Love Song - The Killers
13.) Good Ol' Days - The Script
14.) Lose Yourself cover - The Script
15.) Come and Get it - Selena Gomez
16.) If I Die Young - Band Perry
17.) Kiss You Inside Out - Hedley
18.) One Life - Hedley
19.) Invincible - Hedley
20.) Eyes Open - Taylor Swift
My favourite singer of all time would be Taylor Swift, and my best two bands are Hedley and The Script. Thanks for Reading, see ya! :)
Saturday 27 July 2013
John Newman - Love Me Again
I realise this has probably been around for quite awhile (according
to my sister Mina, the music freak of the family), though I've only just
discovered it. But I love it, and you may have heard of it, but if not
(or if you know you already like it), take a look at this YouTube video
and enjoy :)
Photo of the Day
Awesome Blogger
Since I've done barely anything today other than take rubbish pictures of the rainy weather, I thought I'd at least leave you with something worth reading - I discovered this blogger late last night and have been reading some more of it today, and it's definitely worth looking at. It'll make my blog look really bad quality in comparison, but I just wanted to share such an epic blog, and hopefully us bloggers can find some more blogging ideas from him. The link is here; http://joethepeacock.blogspot.co.uk
Friday 26 July 2013
Photo a day idea
Ok, so since I love photography so much I thought I'd start off this blog by introducing this 'Photo a Day' idea of mine, where I would show a photo of mine and a paragraph or two describing why I took it, where I took and anything interesting about it really. Here goes the first photo:
This is Mrs Cockerel, who was an ex-battery chicken we rescued. We named her Mrs Cockerel because of how she acted so much like a cockerel compared to a hen, watching over the other hens as they ate instead of eating herself, and calling them over to share when she found a bug or something. As you can see she was a very pretty chicken. She died recently, but in all fairness she lived well over what the people said an ex-battery chicken usually lives to, and she lived a very good life when she was with us (I think she's tried every type of pudding from rice pudding to pancakes!) She use to love coming into the house and stuffing her face with coffee cake!
Introduction
Ok. So, as you may have guessed, my name is Jessie. I live in Wiltshire, England, and I'm 17.
I guess I started this blog in hope of improving my writing skills, and this blogging use to be a big hobby of mine, but since I haven't been on my original blog in such a long time I figured it was time to start fresh.
I like to write lists every now and again in my blog posts as they help me figure out how to structure my blog post and include a variety of topics I personally find interesting. So here goes - a list of things about me;
Animals
I love pretty much all animals. I mean, some I find more boring or aggressive than others, such as how I really don't like my sister's ferrets as they barely do anything other than bite people's feet, faces and spray on people, but I would never harm one. My favourite animals are rats (I use to have two adorable girls called Leah and Alice), pigeons, frogs, dogs and deer. My favourite fish is the pufferfish after seeing one yawn and follow my finger at an aquarium.
I have my own dog, Skip, who is an English Toy Terrier. He follows me everywhere and is the best dog I could ever ask for. He's ten years old.
I also have a Border Collie called Kane but he's more the whole family's dog than mine. I have a bunch of other animals but I won't bother to include all of them, except to mention my cat Leonard who I took in when I found him as a stray and covered in blood from an abscess in his mouth. My family also have two other cats, a very beautiful cat named Jazz and her son, the evil cat Cassie. Anyways, back to Leonard; I've taught him to go on walks with me and Skip off lead now, and he loves going to visit this pond nearby.
Here's a picture of Leonard to the left, and a picture of Jazz on the right.
Photography
So I'm starting to realise this post is going to be quite long, so I hope you enjoy reading!
I love photography, I've been taking pictures on a regular basis for a long time now (I've had my Flickr account since 2011 at least), and I think I'm getting reasonably good at it. Last week I went on my first professional photography course, a one-off lesson which turned out to be really good and has helped me in terms of finding out what I really want in a picture. It was run by a photographer in Stroud, her website is here; http://www.look-again.org/ and is definitely worth checking out.
If you're interested in looking up my photostream on Flickr, the link is on the side of this blog page and here; http://www.flickr.com/photos/hawthornheart/
This Employability Course I've been on in my spare time
So I did a year at Sixth Form and left with AS Levels in Art and Religious Studies. Since leaving I've been very happy with my decision to leave, I had real bad confidence issues from that school, but I'm getting much better now so all's good. I've been accepted into a Forensics course I've been interested in since birth basically, and that starts in September. Since leaving Sixth Form in April, I've been on an Employability course which finishes this week, which was really good. It was run by Project Inspire/Community First in Devizes and it's probably the main reason my confidence has been building recently. It involves things such as improving interview skills, being good team workers and good customer service, but it also has fun days out so we can further build on team working and confidence. For example, so far I've done raftbuilding, head for heights high ropes (which has helped me get over my fear of heights), canoeing, archery (which I love and am quite good at), various other things, and this week we're doing our last session, the 'reward trip', which will involve quad biking. I've also taken part in volunteering to raise over £2000 for Wiltshire Young Carers by waitressing for a 'Call My Bluff Wine Tasting Evening', and I've helped at a food bank someplace I can't remember. There's only been six or seven of us in total including the three people running the sessions, and they're all super-friendly, so it's easier for me to get to know people.
I've got to go teach my brother Blake to make eggs on toast now, and then go dog walking for my mum's dog walking and pet care business, Pack on Track. See Ya :)
I guess I started this blog in hope of improving my writing skills, and this blogging use to be a big hobby of mine, but since I haven't been on my original blog in such a long time I figured it was time to start fresh.
I like to write lists every now and again in my blog posts as they help me figure out how to structure my blog post and include a variety of topics I personally find interesting. So here goes - a list of things about me;
AnimalsI love pretty much all animals. I mean, some I find more boring or aggressive than others, such as how I really don't like my sister's ferrets as they barely do anything other than bite people's feet, faces and spray on people, but I would never harm one. My favourite animals are rats (I use to have two adorable girls called Leah and Alice), pigeons, frogs, dogs and deer. My favourite fish is the pufferfish after seeing one yawn and follow my finger at an aquarium.
I have my own dog, Skip, who is an English Toy Terrier. He follows me everywhere and is the best dog I could ever ask for. He's ten years old.
I also have a Border Collie called Kane but he's more the whole family's dog than mine. I have a bunch of other animals but I won't bother to include all of them, except to mention my cat Leonard who I took in when I found him as a stray and covered in blood from an abscess in his mouth. My family also have two other cats, a very beautiful cat named Jazz and her son, the evil cat Cassie. Anyways, back to Leonard; I've taught him to go on walks with me and Skip off lead now, and he loves going to visit this pond nearby.
Here's a picture of Leonard to the left, and a picture of Jazz on the right.
PhotographySo I'm starting to realise this post is going to be quite long, so I hope you enjoy reading!
I love photography, I've been taking pictures on a regular basis for a long time now (I've had my Flickr account since 2011 at least), and I think I'm getting reasonably good at it. Last week I went on my first professional photography course, a one-off lesson which turned out to be really good and has helped me in terms of finding out what I really want in a picture. It was run by a photographer in Stroud, her website is here; http://www.look-again.org/ and is definitely worth checking out.
If you're interested in looking up my photostream on Flickr, the link is on the side of this blog page and here; http://www.flickr.com/photos/hawthornheart/
This Employability Course I've been on in my spare time
So I did a year at Sixth Form and left with AS Levels in Art and Religious Studies. Since leaving I've been very happy with my decision to leave, I had real bad confidence issues from that school, but I'm getting much better now so all's good. I've been accepted into a Forensics course I've been interested in since birth basically, and that starts in September. Since leaving Sixth Form in April, I've been on an Employability course which finishes this week, which was really good. It was run by Project Inspire/Community First in Devizes and it's probably the main reason my confidence has been building recently. It involves things such as improving interview skills, being good team workers and good customer service, but it also has fun days out so we can further build on team working and confidence. For example, so far I've done raftbuilding, head for heights high ropes (which has helped me get over my fear of heights), canoeing, archery (which I love and am quite good at), various other things, and this week we're doing our last session, the 'reward trip', which will involve quad biking. I've also taken part in volunteering to raise over £2000 for Wiltshire Young Carers by waitressing for a 'Call My Bluff Wine Tasting Evening', and I've helped at a food bank someplace I can't remember. There's only been six or seven of us in total including the three people running the sessions, and they're all super-friendly, so it's easier for me to get to know people.
I've got to go teach my brother Blake to make eggs on toast now, and then go dog walking for my mum's dog walking and pet care business, Pack on Track. See Ya :)
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