Sunday 8 February 2015

kingswood!


As I briefly mentioned in one of my last posts, I went on a trip. This trip was to Kingswood. Now, if you live in England, you may have heard of it but it's an "adventure" residential. You do activities like climbing, archery and all that "teamwork" stuff. I went with Ella and Helena who also have blogs (links on their names!). Anyway, let's get on. 


arrival!
We arrived at Dearne Valley and got a quickie tour round the place. I won't go into too much detail but here are a few piccies. 
the huge solar panels - they were act silly broken and meant all the automatic doors had to be opened manually. 
the high ropes course in the background! ugh there was somebody in the way afghh.

free time 
After food, we just chilled in our dorms. Me, Ella and Helena spent most of that time playing shadow puppets. no regrets it was fun af. 

indoor climbing
This was our first activity! Unfortunately I only got one go up the wall as we got taught all the ropes and knotty technical stuff. 

we then went to sleep...

SNOWWW!
Yep. We woke up to this...

Some love it, some hate it. If you were to ask me, I'd place myself in the middle. It's beautiful but COOOLDDD and makes your feet wet yulch (new word). 

After we'd had breakfast and it was for time for our next activity, the Winter Wonderland had turned to Slush Central due to excessive amount of footprints and snowballs.





abseiling 
The first activity of the day: abseiling. I had done it before when I was 8 off a bridge. It was something which I really enjoyed so therefore I was excited to do this. It was a little different as, instead of, literally, walking down a bridge, it was down a huge tower like building. At first, it was scary and I had the tightest grip on the rope but the second time I went round, I'd gotten used to it and started to jump down. 

orienteering
This was our next activity. Considering we had to trapse through mud and our feet were already soaking, this was reasonably fun. We had a map and had to find many points around the site. 

It was then time for lunch (not gonna lie I was probably more excited for food than the activities) but the snow was gone and in fact replaced by SUNSHINE YEAAAS.

okay so I didn't exactly capture the sun in this but take my word for it. THERE WERE RAYS SHINING DOWN FROM THE HEAVENS.

bushcraft
This was the one activity which I had no clue about but turned out to be surprisingly fun. I believe bushcraft is meant to be surviving in a forest, making shelter, cooking food and all that stuff but we just made fire. FIRREE with this keyring looking thing. It involves some sort of chemical reaction and friction to make sparks but it wasn't a science trip so I'm not going to explain the mechanics of it.
Nightline
Our preceding activity was nightline. Basically where you have to put on a blindfold and walk around with the aid of the person infront of you (who is also blindfolded). BASICALLY, everyone is blindfolded except for the instructor because otherwise people would get majorly injured. Being a responsible "teenager" right there. The result of nightline was wet feet. 

Food
Food. Nothing else to say really except for FOOD.

Archery
Our last activity of the day was archery. I think you all know what this is so I won't explain but I was pretty awful, not gonna lie.


sleeeeeep
Then it was that time of the day/night. Gotta love a good night's rest.

Problem Solving
Our Penultimate activity was Problem Solving. This was just a mix of different challenges in which we had to USE OUR MIND. yas.

Leap of Faith
Our last event of the weekend was certainly on of the best. It was the leap of faith... and queue action shot ba dum dum


To sum up, you just jump of a pole. Ta Dah.


And then we had a spot of lunch and left.


Wednesday 4 February 2015

LATE collective festive finds


Aswell as the festive period being filled with family, fun and food, it also included a lotttaa shopping (sale shopping to be exact). So this is a What I got for Christmas/Haul kind of post so LETT'SS GOO!

*PLEASE NOTE THESE WERE ALL TAKEN AT DIFFERENT TIMES :)  SO APOLOGIES FOR THE SUDDEN CHANGES IN LIGHT AND SETTING* 



What I got before Christmas:
THE BEST SUNGLASSES EVER WITNESSED BY MANKIND from Thrift Store (Yes, they flip up.)

A  REALLY cool clipboard from ding ding :)

FRUITY, RED COLLARED TOP - Depop


SIMS 3 - I bought it second hand from Depop but you can get it anywhere really!
BEAUTIFUL PHONE CASE FROM ANNA 
BEAUTIFUL SOCKS ALSO FROM ANNA
EVEN MORE BEAUTIFUL SOCKS ALSO FROM ANNA
LOVELY NOTEBOOK FROM ESME!







BANANA FROM KINZA


OH WAIT IT'S A STRESS BANANA - MenKind
COOOL NOTEBOOK FROM HELENA LIKE WUT!

THESES BOOTS MAKE ME FEEL LIKE I CAN TAKE ON THE WORLD
THIS COAT WAS £5 FROM URBAN OUTFITTERS - BARGAIN OF THE CENTURY
COLLAR. nothing left to say.

Urban Renewal Cord Skirt! FOR £10! I am literally in love with this. Adding something special to a generic black skater skirt. I DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO TAKE A PICTURE OF THE ACTUAL SKIRT BECAUSE I LOST IT FOR A WHILE SORRY....

What I got for Christmas:
WASHIIIIIII
T-SHIRT FROM UNIQLO
NECKLACE FROM LOLA ROSE (I WEAR IT AS A  CHOKER AND IT'S PERF)
RLY COOL TOP FROM UNIQLO

PERF RED BACKPACK WHOOHOO
What I got after christmas: (ie SALE SHOPPING YAS)

THE WARMEST THING I'VE EVER EMBRACED FROM PAPERCHASE (£5!)

A PIECE OF COAL FROM A NATIONAL TRUST PLACE.
JUST KIDDING IT'S A HANDWARMER!


THE FLUFFIEST THING EVER HANDLED FROM URBAN OUTFITTERS

A beeaaaatiful A Line skirt from a shop in Affleck's Palace! £10 woohoo. I'm afraid I didn't have the skill to portray the whole skirt in a picture so here is the pattern. dingggg.


WITCH HAZEL TONER (£11) AND FACIAL SCRUB (£10.85) FROM NEIL'S YARD (maybe a review coming soon?)

A FURRRRY SKIRT FROM UNIQLO
AND LAST BUT CERTAINLY NOT LEAST, THE MOST BEAUTIFUL COAT/MAC EVER TO EXIST FROM RAINS (£20 FRICKIN POUNDS ON SALE FROM LIKE 90) modeled by the beautiful antaliya.

ANYWAY SORRY FOR A LAAATE ONE. Christmas was over a month ago but I hella procrastinated. BYEE!!