TOTALLY COPYING EMMA

Helllo again!
As the title and last post suggest I am totally copying Emma on this one but she loves me and won't care! ;) So I'm going to do a book review. Yes, I know what you're thinking, no one wants to read a book review made by Anna but I promise you I will make it interesting. Maybe ;) if not just read it for a laugh. Hahah. So the book I am going to write about is called 'Wish you were here' and its by Graham Swift. I'd never heard of him before but the blurb sounded really good and so I bought it! It was mighty expensive though, 13 quid! But it was at the airport and I thought, why not?! I have nothing else to read. My Mum's always up for buying me books anyway because its 'educational' or whatever plus the fact that I can lend it to people now that I've finished it! So anyway on to the book. To begin with, even like half way through it, I really, really hated it. I remember saying to James 'man the book I'm reading is so shit' but in the end I really did get in to it! I kind of forced myself to read it though because I didn't want to start it and not finish it. I wanted to fight on ;) haha, so the book is based around 2 characters. Well no, its based around many characters but the main two people are named Ellie & Jack. They live in the Isle of Wight and own a caravan park. Jack has a brother called Tom (same name as my brother ;)) and he is fighting in the war in Afghanistan. The main plot is the fact that Tom dies. But the book basically almost tells the story of Jacks life. Its written in third person which tbh I didn't really like, I understand books more when they're coming from one person's point of view, I think you can get into it more and you feel like you're my involved in the characters life. But even so to the end I did enjoy this book! I think I'm just a bit biased because the only proper books I've read and actually enjoyed our Dorothy Koomson ones which are all completely and utterly different to this one and are all in first person. This one, although quite confusing to begin with did turn out to be quite moving and a good little read for me ;) Jack and Ellie's families both come from Farmhouse backgrounds, they both grow up in farms next to each other, thats how they know each other! So Jacks parents, Vera & Micheal both end up dying. Vera of cancer I think, can't quite remember and Micheal, well he commits suicide. Sorry, this is total spoilers to this book, I won't give away anymore! So a lot of the story is told during the present, Jack going to Tom's funeral, his thoughts and feelings but then another part of it is told from in the past, Jack and Tom growing up and them living on a farm. Man, I'm not telling this plot very well am I?! All in all, it was a good book to read, there were many different plot lines to it and it did begin to get interesting by the end. I think I'm gunna read more books by this Grahham Swift chap! ;) Anywho, must be gone, I've gotta go meet James in town! Thank you for bothering to read this random little book review, blog more soon! x

SORRY

All of us at a restaurant on the first night

I love this photo of Karen. She would kill me if she knew it was on the internet though but oh welllll.

me and hollie looking well, fit. Pahah, I'm joking of course, I look high, Hollie looks lovely and tanned though :)

A cat that befriended us ;) 

ITS SO GOOD TO BE BLOGGING AGAIN! :D
Hellllllloooooo there!
Its been almost a week since I blogged. SHOCK HORROR! ;) This is due to the fact I have been on holiday and un like organised little Emma I didn't write any scheduled posts therefore, no blogs. But I'm back now wooooooohoooooo! Haha, I'm so weird. Anyway first things first, you're probably wondering why the title is sorry. Its because during the course of my holiday I had to say sorry a lot. Just on the first day I managed to...

• Spill a whole bottle of 7up all over the floor
• Drop a wine bottle by opening a fridge (thankfully it didn't break!)
• Spill orange juice all over Hollie & Karen

So by the time all that had happened I had said sorry a lot, so Karen kept going SORRY SORRY all the time to me. Haha, it was funny ;) I don't know how I manage these things tbh, I'm not actually that clumsy just messy! So apart from the whole sorry situation the holiday was good. We went out for dinner a lot which was fun, went in the pool, sunbathed. Nothing too interesting. By the end there wasn't really anything for me to do, there was nothing for miles to walk to, we could have got the bus to places but the rest of them just wanted to stay in a sunbathe. Fun funnn. So I ended up watching lot's of episodes of Gavin & Stacey and read all of my book. Oooooh I know this is totally copying Emma but I might do a review on that after this. Sorry Emma, your ideas are just so good I'm gunna have to steal them ;) I also went on Facebook a bit because there was a little hotel down the road which had internet and I couldn't resist! It was so good to talk to everyone though, even if I'd only been gone for like 2 days ;) James had even written an 'I miss Anna' blog post which I thought was very sweet :') It was nice to be in the sun but by the end I was pretty desperate to get home! I get home sick too easy haha. The holiday was a laugh though and I'm glad I went. :) All the pictures are just random ones from the holiday, not sure which ones they'll be yet since I haven't even uploaded them but there will be some! Wow, this has been pretty short for a 'holiday blog' but there's not really much else to say, like I said the days were pretty uneventful ;) So for the rest of the holiday I haven't got anything specific planned, meeting up with people and of course results day next week, shitting myself even though I can just re take all mine, I still wanna do well! Also I'm hopefully arranging with Jess sometime when she can come over. God, I can't believe we're 3 weeks into the holiday already, its craazeey. I'm dreading going back to school, year 11 ahhhh! But oh well, I've got another 3 weeks left to enjoy! That best be it for this post, I'm gunna do one straight after this though about my book! So see yaaaaaaaaaaaaaazzzzzz. x

37) If you see kay, The Script (had this in my head the entire time we were in Spain! :L)

PilkyMilky.

Don't we look nice hahah

He likes my cushions.

Pilky & Hunny ;)

Pilky Milky crew. Together foreverrrr ;)

Heyyy peoplessss.
Wow, that sounded really chavvy. So anyway, much has happened this recent few days. On Sunday I didn't really do anything in the day, I got up pretty late and just lounggeddd around. But then later on my two lovely friends, James & Emma came over to stay the night! Yes, I know James is a boy coming to sleep at a girls house with another girl. I promise you he is not gay, haha. Anyway, it was an awesome night! We talked for ages and went on my trampoline in the dark, oooh scary. We also read my diary back from when I was in year 6, James has an obsession with it and was reading it to Emma and I allll night. It was very funny! Speaking of James actually, he's started a blog: http://jameshands.blogspot.com/. Check it out! :) Anyway, also that night we had lot's of little what we like to call, 'friendly silences' Cuz we said that good friends should just be able to sit in silence and not be awkward and that's exactly what we did ;) every time there was like a second of no one talking it would just be 'FRIENDLY SILENCE' what little weirdos we are eh?! ;) We also came up with a gang. All three of us now have our own gang, called, wait for ittttt.. PILKY MILKY. It all started when James started calling me 'Sexy babe' just for shits & giggles. Then he said he should call Emma 'hunny bunny' again just cuz it was funny, and then we were like you need a name and as he is OBSESSED with Karl Pilkinton (no idea why myself!) he was like 'Pilky101' and so in the end we came up with 'Pilky Milky' how cool. We have a little hand shack for it and everything. Haha, I promise you were are not about 5, its just ya know hand shacks are fun ;) anyway, the next morning after a couple of hours sleep I introduced them to the world of Gavin & Stacey. Can you believe neither of them had seen it before?! Crazy. So anyway we watched about 4 episodes I think and I'm pretty sure they liked it. I love itttttt and eventually they will too. Hehe, then later on my Nan came over and they both met her. I think Emma had met her a couple of times before but James was new to 'Anna's Nan' hahaha, they both seemed to get on well though and it wasn't too embarrassing! Then even later on we went to meet Owen & Ellie at the common. Owen was on his bike and got lost, well done him, but Ellie got there finnnne. It was a good afternoon, we had piggy back races and took loads of pictures! I swear I take too many photos! Haha, oh well, they'll be lot's of memory's for when I'm older. :) So that about sums up my weekend. Today is Tuesday which means I had a singing lesson this morning. I do love my lil' singing lessons, they are always so much fun and I defiantly learn a lot from them. Can't wait till next weeks one now! So after singing I basically just spent the whole morning packing and getting ready as I'm jetting off to Spain in a couple of hours :D wow, that makes me sound cool ;) I'm pretty much all ready for it now and we don't have to leave for like an hour so I'm just saying my goodbyes to Emma on facebook! I can't wait to go, it'll be so much fun and there's loads of stuff to look forward to when I get back :D
Anyway, I will leave you now. They will be a massive blog full of pictures and stories as soon as I get back!
Thanks for reading, Anna. x


36) Hey soul sister, Train. Gotta love this song!

EMMAS BACK! :D

Hellloooo!
I am soooo happy because my beautiful best friend Emma is back off holiday :D I seriously missed her SO much. Every day I was like 'okay only a couple more days left till she gets back.' hahah, whatta saddo ;) but yeah, so happy shes back and I'm seeing her on Monday so that should be awesome! Anywho this past couple of days have been goooood. Yesterday I went and helped out at the library (I mentioned this in a blog post on Monday I think!) but yeah, I went there for two hours and helped out with this summer reading challenge thingy. It went alright although there wasn't really much for me to do! But when I next do it Emma'll be with me so we'll just have a laugh :P Also yesterday Ellie came over, we made a pancake cake! Oh yes baby ;) we also filmed us doing it and Ellie is gunna edit it all and its gunna be really cool ;) hahah, the only problem was I wasn't feeling all that well yesterday. I mean I was but I was just really, really tired! But oh well, it was fun anyhow :) then today I met up with James, we went to cafe neros and on a little walk. It was very fun, we were talking about comedy videos the entire time and how we both wanted Emma to come home! Hahah, so next week should be awesome. I probably won't be blogging as much cuz I'm going to Spain on Tuesday. I know, I know I seem to go on holiday a lot but it's only because my Mum knows lots of people with apartments abroad not because I'm some rich kid! We are going away with my Mum's best friend Karen and her daughter Hollie. I've mentioned them loads before as they're constantly here, they're like our family and are hilarious to be with so this holiday should be fun! When I get back there are two things I need to do. 1) See Jess 2) See Pete. I haven't seen Jess since the start of May :( so shes gunna hopefully come here for a couple of days :D and I haven't seen Pete for like longer than 2 weeks :/ so when he gets back off holiday and I do too, I will see him! So exciting things to come! I'm just having a chilllll day tomorrow but then on Monday I'm going on a picnic with lots of people. Including Emma, it'll be soo good to see her again! And then Tuesday I've got a singing lesson in the morning and then off to Spain in the evening :D Good times!
Post soon, thanks for reading! x


35) The Writer, Ellie Goulding

It's late but I want to blog.

Hellllllllllllllllloooo
So as the title suggests its late, well its only like 11 but hey, thats late for a whetty like me ;) I've been wanting to write this all night be never really got round to it! So today I went to BARRY FRICKIN' ISLAND BABEEYY! We went there for like a little day trip to see why Gavin & Stacey was filmed because let's face it, that show is bloody amazing! Although its a good couple of hours drive from where we live it was still worth it :D we walked around, ate ice cream, saw loads of seagulls and of course saw all of the different spots it was filmed in :') We were like proper tourists. I had my massive camera, taking photos of everything and my Mum was there asking everyone about whether they were here when it was filmed and whether they'd met any of the cast :P We also went to the house that is meant to be Stacey's house in the show. I was so frickin' excited! Annoyingly though, when we got there we knocked on the door because usually the lady will let people in to have looks round, no one was in so we could only see the outside of it :/ It was still awesome just to be there though, I was on a high all day! It was nice also because we literally NEVER go on family trips out so it was a bit of a change, my family is like the spitting image off the family from outnumbered! Except with older kids ;) Seriously though, there is constant arguments, its crazy, but funny at the same time ;)
It's been such a good day, although when we got home my stomach was really, really bad :( I had a massive skype video call to James which really cheered me up though, his sister was there to and it was just funny :) James is being a complete babe at the moment tbh! I've been missing Emma, Jess (although she got back off holiday tonight!) and Pete loads and he's really been here for me this past week, cheering me up and shit, I'm really lucky to have nice friends :') I honestly couldn't live without them! Hahah, this is so cheesy! So anyway that was today. :) I've been up to lot's of other stuff too! Yesterday I met up with James which was a laugh, and the day before I went out to this little town near where I live with my dad which was nice. I ate ice cream. Ice cream is always good!
Anyway best be off, so tired after today! I really cba to include a good picture in this, so it's just one off google images instead, I'm such a good blogger ;) haha, post soon x

34) Take it all, Adele

'A good snapshot stops a moment from running away'

Me and J man! I love this photo!

LOVE THIS PHOTTOOO. My Granddad and George there in the background ;)

I was testing out the macro/ black & white effects on my camera

A random bike I saw in town the other day, a put my camera on black & white and I thought it looked really cool!

Love this photo of Tegan! THUMBS UP!

Me and Tegan, the sun was shinninggg down on us! :)

Cool kedsss. 

Hahah, i look happyyy :)

Immy is gorgeous.

Me on the zip wire. wooohooo. This photo is so summery :')

Will & James have a strong relationship ;)

Friendiess at play in a week! I miss them :(

Micheal, play in a week. James and I pretended he was our child ;) 

Just a few photos from the summer holidays so far! Some more interesting than others ;)
Blog soon! x


33) Make you feel my love, Adele

A pinch & a punch for the first of the month ;)

Heyyy.
So atm I'm in bed, I'm really hot though, its been such a humid day today! Anyway so the holidays have officially started now! I didn't really count last week as 'the summer' because I was just busy rehearsing but now that the boredom has kicked in I truly know the holidays have started ;) So Friday was a brilliant day! The play went so well and loads of our friends came and saw it. Matt came so I was chatting to him loads afterwards which was loveellyyy. Immy also came and I spent like the entire evening with her, Ellie, Will, James and Ben! There was a bbq afterwards which was okay. There were loads of people there I didn't really know so it was quite difficult to make conversation ;) in the end a little group of us just went and stood near the tree and had a laugh there rather than being with the big social crowd! Ha, civilized eh!? ;) Then later on I went to Heather's with Naomi, Holly and Ellie. I only really know Naomi & Holly from drama so it was good that they were, I could get to know them more! It was such a fun night, we watched The Orphan and The Blair Witch project and then bitched for ages and went on chat roulette! And the next morning we watched this film I'd never heard of before called 'The hills have eyes' it was an 18 so we were all a bit like 'woahh this is gunna be SO scary' but in the end it just turned out to be really creepy and weird! A good film all the same I guess ;) then later on I went to this interview thing at my local library. It wasn't really an interview just a little meeting with a woman he works there because me and Emma wanted to volunteer to help out with this 'children's reading challenge' thing. Sadly Emma couldn't come with me as the silly poo is on holiday ;) but I've booked us in to help out every Friday of the holiday, I just hope she can make it! Talking of Emma I miss that girl so bloody much! And Jess, she's been away for a week now and I'm desperate to talk to her! Emma's only been away since Friday but yeah I'm just dying to see her! And Pete, I'm trying my hardest not to think of him though as he's not gunna be back for another couple of weeks :/ Anyway enough about all the lovely people I miss onto Sunday! Well I didn't really do anything yesterday apart from oooh I went to New Look for a bit, they have a great sale on atm! I didn't buy anything though due to lack of money, oh well it was still fun and got me out of the house :P then lastly today. Well I was meant to be going out to dinner tonight with my Mum and a few people she knows but it got cancelled because one of them had to work late, I was so annoyed as I'd been looking forward to it cuz I've done bugger all all day! I did sort out some of my school books though and started on my History homework. Man oh man I fail at that subject! We have to create a timeline of the Western Front and I seriously do not have a clue! But oh well I'm getting there. Slowly but surely ;) Also this morning I watched the boy in the striped pajamas. Whatta beautiful, moving film :') it seriously is just wonderful! The boy who plays Bruno is the cutest thing I think I've ever seen in my life! The whole film although its ridiculously sad has sort of a sweet feel to it to. Although, obviously the film is based on a horrible, horrible thing it does kind of, almost show it in a sweet way. If that makes any sense! I still haven't done a blog showing loads of pictures yet, I will do it soon and that's a promise, not that you really care ;) Anyway, best go to sleep now, have to be up early tomorrow for my singing lesson!
Post soon. x

32) You & me, Lifehouse