Things I Love About Spring

My flat is filled with tulips and daffodils, the sun stays up till gone 8pm and I'm starting to head out of the house without my coat. These things can only mean that Spring has finally sprung, (well technically it sprung nearly two months ago but the rain to sun ratio was very much so 5:1). If you hadn't guessed already, I love Spring and what comes with it. With blossom flowing in the wind and lambs bleating in the meadows I'm pretty content, as long as the sun is making an appearance that is. And just like any other season, I feel Spring brings a right of passage of things that have to be done over the months, so I've created a list as to what I think that list should include.

1. Dining Alfresco
If I was still living at home I would 100% be coming home from work  and heading straight outside to sit down with my book and dinner. Unfortunately, a garden is the one thing we're missing with our flat, but fear not, we've applied for an allotment and have a large amount of neighbouring parks nearby. 

2. New Clothes
It goes without saying that a new season means a new wardrobe. It's out with the dark colours and in with the light. Mine is currently filling up with pastel skirts and printed shirts, now isn't that a nice phrase. 

3. Baby Animals
I know I've touched on this before but driving past the lambs every morning just makes my day. I've also started jogging in the evenings again which means when I get to the river there is a stream of ducklings just bobbing along. It's the little things that make me happy!

4. Flowers and Greenery
When it gets to this time of year I always think that the grass is just calling out to be sat on. It's just so green and fresh, and that smell once it has been cut, heaven {unless you're a hay fever sufferer}! The streets and fields are all so colourful too with the fresh blooms which make for great Instagram photos. 

5. Days Out
Now that the sun is actually out there's no excuse for you stay in your pjs all day. My favourite thing is the longer days and we've even started doing things in the evenings after work, who would have thought it!

6. Spring Scents
I love sniffing out a new candle and when you're in a new season it gives you a reason to head out and restock your rooms and cupboards. 

There are another 101 things I could ramble on about such as the pastel nail varnishes I'm yet to paint my nails with or the addition of Spring homeware essentials but I don't want to send you to sleep, so I shall leave it short and sweet. Have a wonderful spring-filled weekend!

Little Things #21

My blogging game has been a shamble so far this month. I can only apologise for the cracking content you've been missing out on. I can't even blame it on the fact that I have a life as many of my evenings have been spent searching the internet for cushions, I'm halfway there. I do have the excuse that two evenings of my week are spent sitting in on a Social Media Course and I spend my weekends away from my laptop screen, so I suppose it counts, sort of. These weekends have given me all kinda kicks...

1. I managed to maintain my dignity at my first work social which included a team-building activity followed by an afternoon/evening/night of drinking. I felt god damn awful and suffered from a two-day hangover as fresh as a daisy for work on the Monday. 
2. My flat is filled with tulips and daffodils- I just can't get enough. 
3. I've consumed my body-weight in Dolly Mixtures this month
4. The Saccone-Joly's have announced they're expecting baby number three- I am beyond excited. 
5. We took advantage of the sun and headed down the park for a game of ping-pong. There were also lots of ducklings and I just wanted to take them home.
6. I'm a member of the work fun committee which pleases my inner-organisation-freak-self. 
7. My desk has been updated with a new folder and pen pots.
8. Kensington Palace have been documenting Wills and Kate's trip to India and I've loved it. 
9. Sunny days mean we find fun things to do such as hire a pedalo. 
10. Last Friday we went for a team outing for lunch at the local carvery and I left in a complete ice-cream coma.
11. The Durrells has turned into our new Sunday routine.

If I was to add today's events to this then they would include a complimentary bacon sandwich for this morning's quarterly company meeting, and a trip to see The Jungle Book tonight. As far as Tuesday's go, this one is pretty damn good.

Get to know Bethany Alice Webb

"What are we?" "A leading single-sex school admitting boarders at age 11." "Wrong! We're winners!" There are two reasons as to why I love this quote a) Wild Child is a great film, b) It pretty much sums up my life. Not that I'm a leading single-sex school, but that whenever I introduce myself to anyone I always seem to word-vomit the most boring parts of my life. Who wants to know that I'm a twenty-one year old, who went to university in Southampton and now lives in York? No-one. I should be shouting about the fact that I'm a proud owner of a Blue Peter badge, or that I used to play the cello. So really, this blog post is a reminder to me about self-facts that may be midly more interesting than my geolocation.

• I could eat coco-pops for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
• In another life I hope to be above-average at science and fulfil my dream of working with giraffes/lions/bears/elephants, basically saving the planet.
• I can be prone to fainting when I'm in a hospital.
• I can't resist a good cushion, and we've almost run out of new places to put cushions which deeply saddens me.
• I make lists, about making lists.
• I don't like cheese- unless it's on pizza, or spaghetti bolognese.
• I have mild OCD- volume has got to be an even number, wardrobe is colour coordinated, that sort of thing.
• I can tap dance, not very well anymore, but nonetheless.
• I have been to Disneyland Paris five times #noshame
• No matter how many times I try, I will never be a neat baker. I just can't do it.
• I'm a Wagamamas virgin.
• Dolly mixtures are my new go to, I could eat them all day long.
• It doesn't take much to make me happy
• I get far too attached to shoes.
• I have too many pairs of shoes, but some would say you can never have enough.
• I'm an avid lover of pretty book covers- I will have the most Pinterest worthy bookcase one day
• There's no in-between with me. Let me give you an example. I will either eat all of the Easter Egg or none of it.
• My middle name is Alice after Alice in Wonderland.
• I adore musicals and tend to try and sing like I'm a West End star.
• I have very little patience when it comes to my hair. Which isn't great with how long it currently is as I just end up looking I've been dragged through a bush backwards.
• I will always be dreaming about what foreign country I'm jetting off to next.
• I hate bananas.
• I can be a big wuss and get scared easily.
• I have a history of purchasing great birthday presents.
• I will always choose stairs over a lift because I'm that kind of person- unless it's like eight storeys high, obvs.
• I have already planned that once we buy a house, we're getting a ginger Cockapoo and calling him Mowgli.
• Majority of my wardrobe is made up of shirts and stripes.
• I'm a sucker for rom-coms
• I'm also a super Harry Potter fan- I made Jay a Harry Potter monopoly for Christmas once. One of the player pieces was a dolls house porcelain snake.

I could probably keep going but I don't want to give away all my secrets or make you have to scroll any further. Lets just hope that the next time I'm introduced to someone I can refer to my bank of self-facts to make me seem like a slightly more exciting person.

P.S. This is also my 100th post so I've given myself a pat on the back. I'm pretty amazed I've stuck at it for this long without getting bored. To put things into perspective, my Sims never made it to retirement.