The Adventures of Mr. Hendrix

This is just a little video I put together of Mr. Hendrix on his walk! Hope you enjoy! All music in the video is by Radio Luxembourg.

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Oh you Muppet!

Well hey there sunshine (: 

On Tuesday mam and I drove to Carmarthen to go and watch 'The Muppets' in the cinema. I wasn't to sure what to expect because I haven't really seen any TV program or film by the muppets. Although I've obviously seen interviews with Kermit, Miss Piggy and the gang, so I knew I'd like it 'cos they are just darn tootin' cool. After a bit of shopping (obviously!) we sat down in our Premier seats. Yes guys and gals 'Premier' seats! It's the first time I've sat in these types of seats legally (on many occasions I've sat in these expensive seats in an empty cinema after paying for just the normal standard seats. Cheeky i know!)! It was 'super saver day' at the cinema so we capitalized on this and basked in all their wide, leathery goodness! 

The film was fantastic. Really sarcastic and appeals to a wide audience due to all the cameos from actors such as Jack Black and Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory playing a human form of Walter. All in all a good day out in the cinema! 

I apologise for the blurry photos! 

Royal Holloway dude.

Last Wednesday i travelled to Surrey to visit a prospective university - University of London Royal Holloway. It was b-e-a-utiful! I absolutely loved the place. From the moment we arrived on a freeeeezing morning where snow dropped from the sky lecturers and students were so keen to help and advise and answer any of my questions. This, for me, is a huge thing as I am quite shy and nervous when put in situations like an open day where there are sooooo many students and lecturers talking to you and asking, sometimes, hard and unnerving questions. However this, thankfully, was not the case in Holloway. I was there to visit the History department as this is what i have applied to study at university. I was quite shocked actually because I was not aware of the fact that we would be having meetings with lecturers in small groups of around 3. Although I feel incredibly nervous before hand (and I mean incredibly nervous) when I reached the door of the lecturer's office and I stood there with two other girls I felt strangely calm and collected and actually wanted to speak to my fellow students. As a result I really enjoyed the meeting with the lecturer and found what he had to say really interesting.

I have to confess that I've been worrying for the last couple of months that I am not ready for uni life and the work that comes with it. I've felt that all the other prospective students immerse themselves in history and like nothing more that to chat about history, history, history. However I am not like this at all. Yes i obviously enjoy the subject but I enjoy my other hobbies such as sport and friends much more. This is how I felt after visiting Queen Mary uni in London. However this is not how I felt in RH. The people were so nice and genuine and made is obvious that there is much more to life than History as a subject. There is a huge emphasis on sport at the uni and this is fantastic for me. They possess a really successful women's rugby, hockey and net-ball team and also have a huge variety of other sports which are incredibly interesting. 

After speaking to one of the students studying history at the Uni at the moment i learnt that you can go on a year abroad as a part of your course. This could be to America, Australia or a number of other countries across the globe. This for me is a BIG PLUS as I love traveling and discovering new places. The student said that almost everyone is accepted to do this year abroad as long as their applications are good. 

So here are some pics of the stunning university. 

BAaaaaaFTAS

Last night was the annual BAFTA awards held in London.

Sir Stephen Fry hosted (OK I know he's not a knight of the British Empire (yet) ) and he was fantastic with his use of tripling and quadrupling he made even the most lifeless words into the most captivating thing you have ever heard. 

Anywho this is just a short post of my telling you guys just how much i love watching award ceremonies as I love films. Aren't cinemas awesome? Hoping to go watch either the Muppets or the Artist this week as it's Half term dudessss. 

x 

Honey I'm home!

Well hello there you!

Over the last week I've been chillaxing it out in the wonderful forest that is Centre Parcs in Longleat. Monday morning I went to school for my morning lessons and lunch time the 'rents picked my up and we headed East down the M4. On arrival I threw my bags in to the villa and sat on the couch watching a repeat of that day's 'loose women' (exciting I know!) after visiting the food shop. Tuesday, however, was a much more active day. In the morn we walked the mile down to the sports centre and played a bit of table football, ping-pong and table ice-hockey. After quite an active 2 hours we headed over to the amazing pancake house where I had a forest fruit pancake and the 'rents had a duch apple pancake. Gorgeous! After letting our stomachs settle we headed down to the pool and enjoyed the famous centre parcs rapids, plunge pool and waves! Later that night we headed out and had a nice french meal. Wednesday was spent in an open day at a very nice university I've applied to - Royal Holloway (I'll be doing a separate post on this). Thursday was once again a very busy and active day that saw me and the mother heading down to the sports place to attend a spinning class but after a lot of confusion and mistakes on the part of Centre Parcs (not us for a change!) we ended up playing 45mins of badminton then 45mins of short tennis (tiring!) After a sport filled morning mam and I headed to the spa for 3 hours and enjoyed spa's and sauna's galore! That night we headed to 'Hucks' an American style deli where I enjoyed a jam cocktail which had, amongst other things, blueberry vodka, cherry sourz and actual jam - yuuummmm!

Upon waking up on Friday morning I opened the curtains and saw that the whole park had turned into a winter wonderland! Snow had covered the place and what was once green was now white! After one walk down to the lake we picked up our new car and headed back to wonderful West Wales. All in all a great week! 

Whats up dawgs.

The weekend was quite busy! 

On Saturday I attempted to complete as much homework as possible as I'm going on holidays Monday afternoon (today). I've finished most of my history coursework and did my geography and history homework. Whilst on holidays I plan on doing as much english coursework as possible as I'm missing almost a week of school. Thankfully however I'm not missing that many lessons as I usually only have a maximum of 4 lessons a day but this week we have the school Eisteddfod so there won't be any lessons on Tuesday afternoon or all day Wednesday. 

Whilst doing my homework on Saturday I had the BBC Sport website open as I was listening/watching the start of the Rugby Six Nations. First up was France V Italy and then latter on in the day Scotland faced England at Murrayfield. What a boooooring match the latter was. Neither team was able to impress, knocking on the ball when ever they had a chance at scoring. 

Sunday however was a different game. In the morning Carwen and I drove down to Llanelli to Parc Y Scarlets the home of Scarlets rugby for our weekly Llanelli rugby training (there are pictures to come but I'm not home at the moment so am unable to upload them). We raced home (within the speed limits of course) and arrived in the door just before the national anthems of both Wales and Ireland blasted out Lands down road (now Aviva Stadium) in Dublin.  The game was incredible with the score seesawing every minute and it came down to a penalty kick from Halfpenny. I was shaking. Shaking I tells ya'! The adrenaline was coursing through my body like electric. With 79 minutes on the clock Halfpenny (now an official Welsh hero!) booted the ball through the centre of the posts awarding Wales with a perfect start to the 2012 six nations! 

(Sorry if I've gone on a bit about the rugby, but if you were Welsh you'd understand!) 

 Picture of a scrum (I'm in the front on the left in the red jersey) from a cup match with Scarlets in Litchfield

 Source - Daily Mail

 Above pictures from Wales Online 

Freshhhhhh.

So, my exams are over!!! (for now anyway!) 

My last exam was Geography which was on Monday. I was so nervous before hand because I obviously want to do well and that morning I stopped myself from revising as I knew I'd only scare my self as I would begin to forget things. I felt the exam went OK. So we'll have to see! Our exam was at 13:00 and lasted around two and a half hours and after dropping some things off in the school I raced back home changed and picked Ruth up from her house. We decided that we were going to go watch 'The Decendents' the one with George Clooney. When we arrived in the cinema I ordered a medium popcorn, now I thought that the popcorn was going to be an average size, not too big and not too small. Boy was I wrong! It was absolutely MASSIVE! Seriously! I only ate half of it and bought the other half home for the 'rents but dad threw it in the bin after two days of the popcorn just sitting in its little box refusing to reduce in size! I really enjoyed the film and it was a nice way to relax after over a month of relentless revising hour after hour, day after day! 

Yesterday after coming home from school I felt kinda' frustrated and aggravated so I decided to take Hendrix around some of our fields. It was a lush sunny and crisp winters evening and while I was out and about I was able to just watch the sunset in the background as i (for old times sake) decided to use my climbing frame!