She's Alive!

Yes! Indeed! I am still here (somewhere), I just haven't been very visible as of late - we all know how it is. You get an idea, it's all wonderful, then something happens and you put it off, and then again, and again, and before you know it, two months have passed and you seem to have vanished! Thankfully, the arrival of summer holidays means that blogging is edging further to the front of my brain, into the spaces left over by exams and schoolwork, all of which are now finito. (I think I'll break myself back in gently though...)

Ew, exams
Probably as little said as possible would be best in this case. In fact, there isn't even much to say about them now, it feels like such an age ago! It's only been a month since they were all over and we started our new timetables at school, but it could have been forever, really. Now I'm pushing worries about them out my mind, because I know it does no good at all, and trying to just welcome the idea that whatever happens on that results sheet in a month, happens, and it is not the end of the world.

Summer's arrival
It seems the whole world goes a bit mad as soon as the sun comes out, and we can wear our shorts and sandals, baring white legs to the world. Of course I am also a bit partial to some warm weather, even if my skin may not agree (it's the time of year where I more or less resemble a lobster 24/7)... Trips to the park, walks in the middle of nowhere, laying in the garden, it's all great!

Rainy day obsessions

Obviously, on the flip side, we have the days with the torrential downpours and weird thunderstorms, and there's been plenty of new obsessions for me to fill these things up with. Between Game of Thrones and Orange Is The New Black, both of which  have only recently got into, I've probably never watched so much TV in my life! Plus I've had plenty of time for book reading, journal writing, picture painting - all of which may slip into posts of their own in the near future!

Now what?
Well, it's the holidays, so I hope to expect lots of relaxing and fun activities, days out... Fun opportunities that give me nerves for days, days spent doing blissful nothingness, time that goes fast and slow. Places to explore, new things to try, books to absorb and words to write, that's what summer's all about right?