Long time no see...

Bonjour everyone! ça va? ／おげんきですか？


I've not posted in quite a while so here's what I've been up to...

Oddly, I've been painting quite frequently. It's
 strange because I've always believed that I'm 
incapable of painting anything decent but I'm
 getting better the more that I paint.

I've been channeling my inner gardener. I love
 flowers but I've never really bothered to try to
 grow anything. I've got a lot more time to waste
 now (due to unemployment) so at present I'm 
growing tête-à-têtes,cosmos, primroses (primulas)
 and Chinese forget me nots. 

I've been working on my new blog : *Click*

Oz doesn't really understand it...

Me and Oz have been enjoying the
large amount of snow.

I got a coupon from my friend Jade for two free boxes from
 Graze. Graze is a website where you choose healthy nibbles
 to be sent to you by snail mail, they're super yummy.
 I may review some of their snacks in the near future.

I've also been baking a lot of cupcakes, trying out new flavours and colourings. I love using different coloured frosting... *drools*

Apart from these things, I've recently bought a new Macbook Pro and quit my job so I guess it's been a pretty weird start to 2013 but hey-hoh life's full of mysteries.

Thanks for reading, here's a little favourite song of mine, enjoy!

Beckie Adlington

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Life at the moment...

Bonjour encore! Sorry that it's been a while...

I know that I promised a 'Love Lettuce' face mask review for you which I haven't finished as of yet, but now that I've got a few days to put my feet up, you'll expect to find a few new posts soon. 

Here's a few photos depicting my life at the moment: 

1. I've discovered a new love for Twinings hot chocolate...especially when made with hot milk, cream and mini marshmallows in my new Tigger mug.

2. Happy belated Halloween everyone! I had a lot of fun carving my cute little pumpkin. Thinking of Halloween, happy belated Bonfire night too! I spent Bonfire night at my auntie's eating all of her delicious butternut squash soup and toffee apples...

3. Even on the freezing cold days I'm still taking Ozzy for walks, he loves going out... apart from when the wind is blowing towards him and when I don't walk him on the concrete.

4. I finally bought the cat cushion that I've been staring at for weeks... as well as two other cushions for my collection. 

5. Ozzy finally got a haircut! Hurrah! He looks a little skinny and strange but his fur is growing back rather quickly...

6. We also bought Oz a new Frisbee, which he can't carry because it's huge, so he decides to run around with it hung around his body.

 Anyways, I'll leave you with a lovely cover of Mcfly's 'Love is Easy' by Barnaby from Dive Bella Dive.

Thanks for reading.
Bisous
Beckie Adlington (and Ozzy)



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Désolé...

Drunk?

Bonjour encore!
Evidémment, je n'ai pas écrit récement...pour un mois je pense...

Ouais, je ne devrais pas dire en français maintenant...ce n'est pas utile pour les gens qui ne parlent pas français...J'imagine que je pourrais dire le même chose pour les gens qui ne parlent pas en anglais...

Encore...désolé...je ne crois pas ma grammaire est correct mais ce n'est pas la fin de la monde ou est-ce que?

...I'm sorry I've not been blogging lately (if you care).
I've of course been really busy working and studying...and seeing friends and other such things....

Ohai

Looking drunk and happy with Sammy.

Well, there's not much to tell you really... I guess first of all I've been to Leeds to see Dive Bella Dive.
Few photo's from the night... (from friends' cameras...I forgot mine).














Anyway, in other news...

Yesterday I went to YO! Sushi with friends...


I also ended up buying loads of food from the Chinese supermarket so I can make yummy meals, hurrah!

Something I live on at the moment is Omurice（オムライス）(which I need to stray away from) 。
Basically it's chicken rice inside an omelette with ketchup/tomato sauce...it's really good. Takes a while to cook I suppose (but that's probably because I take more time using a rice cooker).
I might show you how I make my Omurice in another post later on...

I also took a trip to Lush in Leeds and came out with a few new products, reviews are to come guys...





To end this lovely post I'll leave you some photos of my pooch Ozzy...

Little Scruff ¬_¬

It's taken about a week but he's finally walking on the lead and we go for really long walks now...bless him.

Merci beaucoup encore mes amis (Thanks for reading).

Bisous

Beckie & Ozzy

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Autumn.

Well hello mes amis! 
I've been tagged by lovely Rachel to answer some questions about autumn, so here you go, enjoy...

1. It's finally autumn, what are you most looking forward to this season?
Probably the cold weather. I bet you're thinking 'WHAT? WHY?' Well, I don't like the hot weather in the summer (if we get any summertime), I much prefer the cold and getting snuggled under my covers at night. Plus, when autumn-time begins, that means it's closer to winter and therefore Christmas (my favourite time of year).

2. Which autumn item in your closet are you most looking forward to pulling out?
Probably my jumpers that my granddad donated to me last winter, they're really fluffy and warm and best for the very very cold months, I also really like to pull out my boot cuffs and Russian style hat (basically anything fluffy and really warm does the trick).


3. Since Halloween is the first holiday to celebrate, we all get treated with a horror movie marathon all month long. What is your favourite scary movie to watch?
I'm a real horror movie lover and I have quite a large collection. The first scary movie I saw was Nightmare on Elm Street directed by Wes Craven. I bought the box set and was completely hooked, I also have a little obsession with the Saw movies (again I have them all). Others I really like are 'The Hills Have Eyes', 'Child's Play', 'The Grudge' (Japanese version) and 'Orphan'.



4. What is your favourite autumn treat?
Well, I love caramel Macchiatos from Starbucks (like Rachel) and also the white chocolate mochas but I mostly look forward to gingerbread lattes at Christmas.

5. Now that summer is finally over, what will you miss about it?
Probably like Rachel said, daylight hours. It's hard to juggle full time work with a puppy, I've got a lack of hours with him through the week as it is, and the days closing in means I get less time to play with him *sad face*.

6. Which make-up/beauty products do you love for autumn?
I'm not really into tonnes of make-up, just the essentials. I love nail polish but obviously I can't wear it through the week when I'm working but non-the-less I'd go for a nice orange/red colour and paint my nails variations of autumn.

7. What have you recently bought in preparation for the autumn season?
Nothing in particular, as sad as it is, I've bought lots of socks and slippers because my feet get really cold when it starts getting into autumn.

8. Have you ever been trick or treating?
Yes, I used to go practically every year, normally as a witch or more recently a scary doll (I covered myself in lace and fake blood and wore a patterned pink dress). I normally go to my aunt and uncle's for Halloween and meet up with family so it's always good.

9. Name the first five things that come to mind when you think of autumn...
Trees (obviously), Bobble hats, hot water bottles, lay-ins and candles....

10. What is your favourite season and why?
Probably winter because I like cold weather, in particular snow and because in winter we have the best holiday, Christmas! I really love Christmas...

So there you go, hope you enjoyed reading this post, I'm going to tag Jess but anyone that would like to do this tag is welcome to. Hopefully I'll be blogging again soon, probably including a lot of photos of Ozzy...

I'll leave you with a music video...this one was uploaded recently and I'm hooked.
Dive Bella Dive- School

Bisous 

Beckie Jayne Adlington.

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Geek Feast.

Look, it's K-9 !

Salut encore!

Comment allez-vous?

I thought I would update you on my life (that's if you're interested).
I've spent six days working nine till five (cue Dolly Parton) as a trainee dental nurse as you've probably read in my previous posts.
I'll probably post something tomorrow explaining my day-to-day happenings, but for now lets just say that there's lots to tell so expect a long ramble tomorrow.

Last Saturday I met up with my friends Jade and Samantha (Samantha, who moved south a year ago and I've not seen since) for what I called a 'Geek Feast'.
Basically, in xscape there was lots of people dressed as superheroes and Doctor Who monsters and lots of American cars and movie props; so we walked around through the mass of people.
Here's a few photos...

I hope you liked this post, it was pretty 'geeky' but welcome to my world...
...So yes, thanks again for reading and I'll update soon (when I have a spare five minutes).

Merci beaucoup!

Bisous

Beckie Adlington

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Liebster award....

I received a rather nice message via twitter from my friend Rachel (Rachel-ec) last night (or should I say early this morning as we are both practically nocturnal).
It was about tagging me in her post Liebster Award, which you should check out because her posts are definitely worth reading.

So, according to Rachel there are a set of rules that I have to follow:
- List 11 facts about yourself (little bizarre number really...)
- Answer the 11 questions that have been set for you and then create 11 questions yourself for the people you will tag to your post (again 11, what a strange number, why not 10?)
- Choose up to 11 bloggers and link them to your post (I'm not even going to mention the number of bloggers ~_~).
- Go to their blog and tell them you've nominated them.
- No tag backs.
- Only for bloggers who have less than 200 followers.

Okay then, rules read, lets start.

Facts about me.

1. My full name is Rebecca Jayne Adlington and often enough I receive a large amount of new followers on Twitter who seem to believe that I'm Rebecca Adlington the Olympic swimmer. Unfortunately not...sorry to disappoint.
2. I have a slight obsession with buying books and I prefer not to allow my friends to borrow my books because from past experience they don't treat them like I do. On one occasion my best friend dropped my book in the bath while she was reading. I still don't know how she managed it to be honest...
3. I'm a typical geek, I like manga and comics and I spend a lot of time watching The Big Bang Theory and Doctor Who.
4. I've studied French for seven years, Spanish for four (I've lost most of my ability to speak it now) and I'm currently teaching myself Japanese.
5. I collect cute pens, pencils and notebooks (which I may show you later). Don't ask why, I just love quirky stationary plastered in adorable characters like Hello Kitty, Rilakkuma and many others. Oh, and I obviously love Paperchase.
6. I had braces for a period of eleven months, which was extremely quick apparently. I recall going in December and being really upset that they were coming off because I wanted Red and Green colours on them just for Christmas.
7. I have a tendency to ramble (which I've been doing all through these facts as they're abnormally long).
8. I'm a sucker for horror movies, I can't get enough of them.
9. I have an addiction to Sushi which has burnt a hole in my pocket over the years going to YO! Sushi on a next to weekly basis.
10. I'm physically repulsed by celery, I get goosebumps and feel sick when I smell it and family members have chased me around the room with it.
11. I'm also an avid collector of teapots and tea sets.

Okay...now the questions from Rachel.

1. What made you decide to start a blog? - I think I was just bored after all the exams, I'm still not sure. I suppose I like to ramble and share my stories and thoughts...
2. Name a song that means something to you (and state why if you like) - Bruce Springsteen- Long Walk Home.
3. Are/were you a student? If so, what do/did you study? - I guess you could say I'm still a student, until tomorrow I guess. I've been studying French, Law and Psychology.
4. If you had to set yourself one goal for life, what would it be? - To do something which means I'll never be forgotten.
5. Somebody has made you your ultimate 3-course meal, what would the courses be? - Probably Salmon Nigiri's for starter, then maybe Lasagne or Udon noodles with chicken and dessert would be a slice of perfect Victoria sponge cake with butter-cream and raspberry jam.
6. If you could choose any language to speak (in addition to the language[s] you already speak), which would you choose and why? - If you don't count Japanese as a language I can speak then definitely Japanese, but if not, probably Korean, I'd love to learn that.
7. What is your biggest pet peeve? - Either drivers who don't signal/ indicate or people who don't wash their hands after going to the toilet.
8. What is something you're particularly proud of? - My sketches of  Misao Harada on DeviantArt: Misao Harada.
9. Which would you rather see live? Stand-up comedy, live music or a play? - I guess it depends on the person/ people I would be seeing live, but I think I'd prefer stand-up comedy.
10. How old will you be in 5 years? - 23 years old.
11. If you had two children tomorrow, a boy and a girl, what would you name them? - Barnaby and Clea.

 Questions I'm setting:

1. If you could visit any country, where would it be?
2. If you had to live on one meal for the rest of your life, what would you choose?
3. How tall are you?
4. If you could meet anybody dead or alive, who would it be?
5. If you could go back and change something in your life, what would it be?
6. What's your favourite book? (Or movie if books aren't your thing).
7. If you were an animal what would you be? (Mythical or ordinary).
8. What do you like to splurge money on most?
9. What's you dream job?
10. What's your favourite piece of clothing or accessory?
11. What annoys you the most?

I'm going to tag Ashleigh Morris and Jessie Adlington. Lucky Jess, you have one from both me and Rachel now. Anyone can do this tag too if you wish.

Merci et...

...Bisous

Beckie

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