Hey Mil: April 2015

I love having bold coloured nails in the spring and summer, even when I'm just wearing a boring outfit it makes it look like I've made more of an effort. These are some of my favourites, don't they look so pretty together! There's a range of brands and they are all drugstore/high street buys. Ever the bargain hunter! Rimmel Lasting Finish - Cute As A Kitten Heel, Topshop Nails - AWOL, Barry M - Berry Ice Cream, Rimmel Pro - Peppermint and Barry M Gelly - Dragon Fruit. Berry Ice Cream featured in my previous Nails of the Week but its too lovely :) I don't know what to use first, maybe a different colour for each nail...

What colours are your spring must-haves?

Millie

Its spring! Spring is my favourite! Bright colours or pastels, anything goes. The clocks go forward and everything changes - flowers, blue skies, April showers and a bit of warmth. Being home from Uni for Easter means family time, dogs included. This is Lilo and Nellie, our Black Labradors. Lilo is only 5 months old so can't go for long walks yet but Nellie is 6 years old. Heres some pictures from a recent walk and swim, enjoy :)

Lilo soaking up the sun

Action shot!

Nellie can't wait for the sea

Watching another dog, don't worry she jumped in soon after ha!

Flip flops are out, yeah man!

Millie

At the end of February I went on a roadtrip to Edinburgh with two of my buds! Everyone I spoke to thought it was mad driving from Essex to Scotland (I don't drive yet - unhelpful passenger or what?) but we are adventurers and this roadtrip marked the beginning! Fairplay, Nicola is a hardcore driver!

LIVING - 1 weekend, 3 hostels! A long long drive for a weekend, on the way up there we had our first stop Nottingham at Igloo Hostel. Although it was just for the night, we all said we would stay again! The only downfall were noisy neighbours on the vino. A bright early start heading for Edinburgh! Edinburgh was lovely, freezing but a really nice city. I loved that everything was on different levels, with it being hilly. If you are planning a trip I definitely recommend going to Edinburgh's Camera Obscura - the website doesn't do it justice! We stayed at Budget Backpackers which was really groovy, the bar was made from a VW Camper :) its a lot bigger than our first stay but again the main downfall was other guests. On a Sunday night the shared bathroom someone threw up in, which wasn't pleasant. I'm guessing a traveller couldn't hold down whiskey?... Our last stop of the weekend was York. I hadn't actually been 'up North' until this trip. The highest I'd gone was Lincoln (theres so much of the UK I haven't seen!!) In York we booked a last minute hostel, YHA and what a great discovery it was! A chain of hostels we'd never heard of before. It was brill, the staff were super friendly and York is beautiful too. We had the luxury of a private bathroom and managed our first shower in a couple of days yaaay! (After the mess/the amount of people using the Budget Backpackers bathroom, wet wipes were all we had...) HOSTELS ARE GREAT THOUGH :)

WEARING - Scotland was so so cold. I was not prepared for how cold it was. We saw every type of weather going; snow, sun, wind and rain, even a bit of hail! It was on my bucket list to wear tartan in Scotland and I did! Due to the weather, we ended up wearing; hats, scarves and sunglasses. I was glad to have all three I can tell you now. Fashion wise it wasn't my finest hour, although hats help hide bad hair days when Batiste doesn't do the job ;)

Graham, Nicola and I at Portobello Beach in Edinburgh

EATING - The Six Nations were on at the time and I can't remember the names of the pubs we shuffled into, boy am I a lightweight now haha trying the local cider was fun mind! There are so many places to eat in Edinburgh, lots in the side streets. Thank you student population! There was an awesome burger joint, The City Cafe which after a previous visit, Graham said we had to go to. 'Diner by day, drinks by night'. I'm so bad at getting photos of food.. what can I say, I just want to eat it ha!

Even though it was chucking it down, had to take a quick pic - Husband Day Care Centre aka the pub

York Minister is so pretty!

Need to remember to take pictures of food and should visit the North more, oh my goodness!

Millie

Sorry I haven't blogged it ages! Can't believe I missed the whole of March. I know I've said that a fair few times now, but I honestly didn't know how crazy the past few weeks were going to be in reality. Some of you may know but I'm in my third year of a media production degree and the past 5 weeks I've been preparing and making live radio content for our final project Exposure. Anyway that was a huge chunk of my degree, it was incredibly stressful, I learnt a lot and it consumed all of my time. Literally, my skin went through major breakouts and my eyebrows were a mess haha! But blogging took a back seat too. During this time, I also made some decisions... I'm going travelling!

In a previous post What's Next? I didn't know what I was going to do after graduating. Now I kinda have a plan... Along with my 'sister from another mister' Nic - check out her wicked project here - I'm joining her on a European adventure! There's always going to be something holding me back. Having a media degree and keeping up with contacts is really important, but I'm still not 100% sure on what I want to do... The only thing I do know is, I don't want to stay as a checkout girl and watch life pass by. I don't have savings but I'm going to work my arse off for the next three months and if I need to work as I go, then I will. But I'm so excited and I feel much happier about the future! On that note my blog may change a bit in content, because I will be travelling and I want to share my experiences, tips etc. So my 'bit of everything' will be even more so :) what can I say, I want to do it all!

Here is a picture from my recent trip to Amsterdam (blog post to follow soon!)

p.s. I'm back, yaaaay!

Millie

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