A week of happy #6

1. Tenerife Sea by Ed Sheeran - it's the perfect summers evening song. His whole new album is incredible, but this one in particular is just mesmerising. 

2. Painting my nails - I've always been pretty boring when it comes to my nails with just one colour and maybe the odd accent nail. But this week I've been experimenting more with gradual effects etc, I'm not very good yet...

3. Barbecues - I'm almost certain that I said this last week, but today we had another little family BBQ and it was such good company and food - which leads me on to the next thing...

4. Pistachio ice cream - we had this today at our BBQ, it's from Lidl. It tastes like vanilla ice-cream and almonds. It is SO good. You have to try it!

5. Candles - with it being so hot lately, I haven't quite been able to face the warmth of a candle. However, I've been adoring my candle's lately, I mainly use them in the evening time whilst I'm drinking herbal tea and writing. 

6. My bed - need I say more.

7. Reading - as you saw in yesterday's post, I've been adoring reading this book. It's the perfect summer romance story. Blissful. 

8. Late nights outside gazing at the stars - I don't think I've ever felt more wonder-struck. It's so peaceful; I just spend the time thinking and being really philosophical. I'm in complete love with it. 

9. VINE - I've genuinely never laughed so much in ages. If I'm ever feeling down then I'll look for funny vines and those 6 seconds or so will cheer me up no end! 

10. The kind words of people - whether it be my friends, or the comments I get on my blog. It makes me feel so loved when I get lovely comments or good genuine advice friends. I'm a sentimental little thing and so kind words really do make my day one hundred times better!

11. Poetry - I've always loved writing/reading/everything about poetry. I find it so cathartic and it just makes me feel so happy. It's hard to explain, I love writing so much - any kind of writing. But poetry just does things to my heart that I cannot describe. I adore the freedom, the story you can tell and the beauty of the words that you carefully place amongst each other to change a simple word in to a piece of lyrical art. 

Oh you lucky devils, you got eleven things out of me this week! 

What's made you happy this week? xx

friends & food in the sunshine

Yesterday I went out for dinner with one of my best friends from college. We barely see each other any more, but when we get together it's like nothing has changed between us. I think that's the meaning of true friendship - it lasts the test of time. We met in town (after I caught the bus all by myself - another little mile-stone achieved!) and then tottered off to Pizza Express for some lunch. Unfortunately we had a £10 off when you spend £40 - that clearly meant that we just <u>had</u> to go for three courses. Ooops. Like a complete ditz I only remembered to take pictures of my main course - that's surely enough food porn for one post though, right? To start I had the scrumptious dough balls with garlic butter, #uhhmazing. Then this glorious beast of a pizza is their Pollo Ad Astra Leggera pizza which has a super thin base and a hole in the middle filled with salad - all around 500 calories, talk about guilt free. But... then the guilt came. I was forced to have the most divine Chocolate Glory icecream filled with vanilla icecream, fudgy (I'm already salivating) chocolate sauce and pieces of chocolate fudge cake; I don't think that was quite so under 500 calories...

We were also meant to go and see 'The Fault in our Stars', but because of all our shopping, eating and talking we missed it. Whoops... All in all, a thoroughly enjoyable day with some fabulous company and food.