Holiday Day 3

Last night we went out to dinner and I saw the perfect chance to wear this lovely dress I was given as an end-of-year present from one of the parents at school. I also managed to have awesome hair and awesome make up. I was feeling fantastic and we had a wonderful meal :)

Beautiful night time coast

The view from our balcony the same night.

We're sadly left Polignano yesterday and we're now in Ostuni in a cute little apartment on a tiny little street with a cool, but a little scary roof terrace (read roof!). More pics soon xx

I'm not dead

I've just spent well over an hour trying to catch up on the goings on of my favourite bloggers. IT's been nearly 2.5 months since I posted here and nearly the same amount of time since I even logged into blogger!

I can't even remember all of the awesome and awful things that have happened in the past few months, but here are a few to whet your appetite

+ We had amazing sunshine in April and May, I've got a fabulous base tan and serious white bits ;)
- June has been pretty crappy by comparison with thunderstorms a go-go
+ Random hail storms aren't so bad when you get stuck huddling for shelter with crazy rockers while drinking wine and amaretto
+ I spent a glorious Sunday in May lounging on a huge rock at the beach, dipping in and out of the warm Adriatic and soaking up the sun and beach life
- I did get a little sunburned that day due to not having anyone to properly apply sunscreen to my back
- I got a really bad chest infection aroud this time, coupled with an inexpicable skin rash. The infection has gone and the rash is going away, but leaving little patches of pale, untanned skin instead. I feel a little like a leper.
+ I have a second job working after school with one of the kids from my class
- This is making me very, very tired :(
- This past week at work has been the most stressful and emotionally draining since September
+ Me and my californian colleague have been singing our way through the days to help keep spirits up... think musical episode of a bad sit-com
+ The school year is nearly over and we're all excited to get a proper break
+ The girls and myself are finally going to use our spa vouchers NEXT SATURDAY! This means I am going to lose my massage virginity, once and for all YAY!
+ The parents from our class gave us gift cards to a department store at our end of year party, shopping and spa? Hell yeah!
+ I've been indulging in coffee and pastries for breakfast most mornings
- This is not helping the weightloss
+ I bit the bullet and am wearing shorts for the first time in my adult life!
+ I got my haircut a few weeks ago and it looked like this...





although, it's now a fair bit longer, I still flippin love it! :D

That is all for now. Hopefully it won't be another 2 months before I post!

Monday Musings

This is an odd sort of update... nothing of real substance, more of an excuse to show you some pics I've been hoarding ;)

I haven't really been dressing up, it's far too humid to wear tights and my legs are not ready to be disclosed to the world yet. Also, if I don't wear tights, I can't bike in my dress... so that's a definite no-no. But I miss my dresses :(

Here is one of my much loved outfits of late. I really love the lacey tights, these are my peach/nude coloured ones, with my peach dress. I wore this to go sunbathing at the lake a week or two ago. I got many stares and realised this dress is just a little too short to bike in. But I did it anyway (with one hand on the handlebars and the other holding the hem of my dress).

And here are my nails. I got really bored and decided to repeat the leopard pattern I attempted before, but using this nice mint green colour I picked up in Primark over my 2 day trip to London.

On Friday I decided to go with curly hair. My hair is really fine and has a really annoying wavy shape to it. It's not wavy enough to be nice, it makes waves in weird places and if I just leave it to dry naturally it's rubbish. I managed to get some quite nice curls this time though, which is rare for me because curls usually fall out pretty easily in my hair.

I towel dried my hair and then just twisted large sections around themselves and pinned them into little coils close to my head. When they were almost dry I undid the coils, combed my fingers through the sections to define the curls, scrunched them with wet hands and gave a final spritz of hairspray.

I'm in France now for at least a week. The weather here is much cooler than in Italy and it's nice to get some decent, non-sweat-drenched sleep... although I'm missing my bf immensely. I'm going to go into Lyon city centre when the shops have opened after lunch. I need to get my brother in law a bday card, I also need some shampoo and conditioner (nearly 5 Euros a bottle at the supermarket around the corner!!!) and I wanted to look in some of my favourite shops here, but just window shopping ;)

I hope you've all had a lovely weekend, I start my work experience this week, so I'm sure my updates will be even more slack than ever ;)

Fridays make me restless.

I've been feeling quite restless today. I think it's partly the election result, partly the upcoming interview and partly my very well honed skills of procrastination.

I'm bored of my hair. I want it to grow quickly so I can have it long with a long blunt fringe (bangs) like so many gorgeous trendy people have these days. I love the look and spent some time messing around with makeover sites today to find that it wouldn't look as bad on me as I first thought. Fringes for the win!

But I also really miss my pink hair. I know if I bleached it again, my hair would just give up and fall out. Especially since the bleach hasn't really grown out yet. And if I do bleach it, it will take forever to grow long and I can kiss my fringe goodbye. But I really do miss the colour in my life...

My pink hair :'( and my favourite hoodie of all time.


My lovely purple hair (at a eurovision party, which explains
the union jacks)


My summer compromise of purple fringe and pink hair. Oh
and my Stalinist representation of a bear. Long story.

I've also been talking about wanting to go ginger for a while. Not a very carroty ginger, but still, orange rather than red, but I've come to the conclusion it wouldn't suit my skin tone. Neither would platinum, which saddens me to no end.

I guess I'll just stick with brown for now and keep trying to grow my locks. Maybe I'll resurrect the pink hair one day in the far off future...?