July-ving and thriving Day 31: July favourites :)

I can’t believe that this is the final post of July-ving and Thriving!! I have had so much fun writing these posts and I hope you guys have enjoyed reading them 🙂 I will be taking a little break from blogging for two weeks and then will be back to my two post a week schedule after that 🙂 

1. The Wiz- Since the start of lockdown I have been keeping up with the live shows being streamed on The Shows Must Go On and had actually never seen The Wiz before or heard any of the songs so when I found out it was being streamed I knew I had to watch it and so since I watched it on June 12th I have had those songs in my head 🙂
2. Alexa and Katie Part 4- I absolutely love this show and I was so sad that this was the last season but it was so amazing! I think they ended the series so well and I’m so excited to see what the two main actresses end up doing 🙂
3. Lemons by Ashley Tisdale: I am a big fan of Ashley Tisdale and have been since High School Musical and am especially fond of her music so when she released her new album Symptoms I really loved it and have been listening to it ever since and then she released Lemons which I also really love 🙂 
4. Indian Matchmaking- My friend Barghavi has been round quite a few days in the past week and a bit so we decided to binge watch this show which we absolutely loved! Its such a cool show and some of the people I absolutely loved 🙂 I really liked Nadia, Ankita and Vyasar 🙂 
5. Holiday by Little Mix: I am a big fan of Little Mix so always try and listen to their new music straight away and holiday was no exception 🙂 I love the positive vibe to their music and am so excited for their new album 🙂 
6. Folklore by Taylor Swift: As many of you will already know I am a big fan of Taylor Swift and have been loving her new album 🙂 I think my favourite songs would be The 1, Illicit Affaits, Invisible string and Mirrorball 🙂

Let me know in the comments what you have been loving this month 🙂 

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July-ving and thriving Day 30: Currently I’m……

Reading: I have just finished reading The Missing Pieces of You by Amelia Mandeville which I really loved and then on a trip to WhSmith the other day I found The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins as it is a newest book that is part of the Hunger Games franchise/world so that will be my next book that I read and I’m so excited!

Watching: I’m currently on the last season of Modern Family which I have absolutely loved as it is such easy watching! I think Alex might be my favourite character in the show and I actually love Hailey as well 🙂 I have also been watching Carrie Hope Fletchers Good Evening World Series everyday and I am going to be so sad when she stops them 😦 Finally I have just finished The Secret She Keeps and The Bears about the house which I was watching with my Mum and Paul O’Grady for the love of dogs had just come back onto the TV so have been watching that as well 🙂

Listening To: As most of you will know I have been listening to the new Taylor Swift album on repeat recently but I have also been listening to the new Mcfly song Happiness today which I love 🙂

Feeling: Productive 🙂 I have now written all of my blog posts for this series, went for a 5k run two days ago and deep cleaned my room as well 🙂

Grateful for: My friends and family and ofc Maya for keeping me smiling during quarantine 🙂

Wanting to buy: I need a new pair of running trainers actually as the ones I am currently using as a little bit small 🙂 I am also looking at Depop at the moment for a blog post thats coming up soon so keep an eye out for that 🙂

Let me know in the comments your answers to these questions 🙂

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July-ving and thriving Day 29: Life CV :)

I saw someone on twitter the other day who in their bullet journal had written a ‘Life CV’ where they talked about some of the things they have done in their life which I thought was a really cool idea so I thought I would try it 🙂

1. Passed my GCSEs and A-levels and got into University 🙂
2. Volunteered at a Dairy Farm, London Zoo, Lambing placement and 3 different veterinary practices 🙂
3. Graduated university with a Bachelors of Bio-veterinary Science 🙂
4. Volunteered and then got a job at Battersea Cats and Dogs Home 🙂
5. Have reached 1250+ followers on this blog and have been blogging for 5 years 🙂
6. Have worked with Coconut Lane and Uncommon Goods on my Blog 🙂
7. Have travelled to 9 different countries in the last 4 years and gone to lots of exciting places in the UK 🙂
8. Have an amazing puppy who I have been training 🙂
9. Ran a 5k yesterday!
10. Have been to lots and lots of concerts and musicals 🙂
11. Have amazing friends and  family around me 🙂

Let me know in the comments what you would put on your Life CV and I’m sure I will be updating mine in a few years 🙂

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July-ving and thriving Day 28: Folklore

I am a big Taylor Swift fan and have written two different posts about some of my favourite Taylor Swift songs and some of my favourite lyrics of hers however both of these posts were written before her new album Folklore came out so I thought I would add Folklore to the list and list my favourite songs and lyrics from the album because I feel like this album is such an autumn/quarantine vibe 🙂

Favourite songs:

1. The 1
2. Illicit Affairs
3. Invisible String
4. Peace
5. Mirror Ball

However I’m sure this list will change as I listen to the album more 🙂

My favourite lyrics from Folklore:

1. And when I felt like I was an old cardigan under someones bed you put me on and said I was your favourite- Cardigan
2. Who knows, if she never showed up, what could’ve been, There goes the maddest woman this town has ever seen, She had a marvelous time ruining everything- The Last Great American Dynasty
3. No one likes a mad woman, You made her like that, And you’ll poke that bear ’til her claws come out, And you find something to wrap your noose around- Mad Woman
4. Family that I chose now that I see your brother as my brother, Is it enough? But there’s robbers to the east, Clowns to the West, I’d give you my sunshine, Give you my best, But the rain is always gonna come, If you’re standing with me- Peace
5. Tell your friends you’re going for a run, you’ll be flushed when you return- Illicit Affairs
6. Time, wondrous time, Gave me the blues and then purple-pink skies- Invisible String
7. Gold was the colour of the leaves when I showed you around Centennial Park, Hell was the journey but it bought me heaven- Invisible String
8. I’ll get you out on the floor, Shimmering beautiful, And when I break it’s in a million pieces- Mirrorball
9. If you kiss me, will it be just like I dreamed it? Will it patch your broken wings?- Betty
10. Like you’d get your knuckles bloody for me, Second, third, and hundredth chances, Balancin’ on breaking branches- Exile

Let me know in the comments what song is your favourite from Folklore 🙂

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July-ving and thriving Day 27: Week 17 of working from home :)

I started the week with a Gyst day on my laptop working through lots of my emails and different bits of life admin 🙂 Then on the Tuesday I did some shopping and bought two new toys for Maya who has been thoroughly spoilt this week!! I went for my first outside run with Maya this week on Wednesday which was so much fun and she absolutely loved it! ❤ We were both absolutely knackered by the time we got back! I then went to Mcdonald’s with my family for lunch which was so lovely ❤ We ordered in the restaurant and then took it away to sit in the park which was so nice 🙂 Then on Thursday my Mum and I headed to a garden centre with my mums best friend for some lunch and some shopping 🙂 My friend Dorothy came down from London on Friday and we went to a restaurant called Baghattis which has amazing food for lunch 🙂 Saturday was another GYST day but this time I was cleaning my room and then on Sunday Barghavi came round for the day which was so so lovely 🙂 I gave Maya a bath in the morning which meant she was all fluffy by the afternoon! Barghavi had bought some different gins for us to try with her so we ordered KFC for lunch and sat in front of the tv with a Gin and lemonade for a Disney marathon of Brother Bear and then Lady and the Tramp and then the whole family had a BBQ ❤

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Let me know in the comments what you got up to last week 🙂

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July-ving and thriving Day 26: Would you rather- Skincare/Makeup Edition :)

1. Win a lifetime of weekly facials or win a lifetime of weekly full-body massages? I actually don’t like full body massages because I have a very sensitive back since my surgery so I would definitely go for a lifetime of weekly facials 🙂
2. Throw away your entire skincare collection or throw away your entire makeup collection? I am really bad at my skincare so I would have to say throw away my entire skincare collection rather than my entire make-up collection! My make-up collection is definitely overkill so would be very expensive to replace!
3. Have a lifetime supply of your favorite makeup product or a lifetime supply of your favorite skincare product? I would have to say have a lifetime supply of my favourite skincare product because although there are only a few products I actually use I love them and would probably have to re-buy them more often than my favourite make-up product 🙂
4. Never go into a physical beauty store again or never be able to order makeup or skincare online again?- I have done a few shops online during lockdown and have really enjoyed not having to actually go to the store however it would be really hard to match your skin colour for foundation/concealer without actually going into the store so I would have to say never be able to order make-up/skincare again!
5. Have  bad skin or have bad breath? This is a really hard one but I think that I would rather have bad skin than bad breathe!
6. Always have to sleep with your makeup on or never wear makeup again? Ummm- I would have to say have to sleep in my make-up as I love getting dressed up and putting on my make-up when I’m going out for the day 🙂
7. Wear black lipstick on a job interview or wear blue lipstick on a date? I think I could rock a black lipstick better however I think I would rather wear blue lipstick for a date because I feel like I wouldn’t worry about the date as much as a job interview!
8. Would you rather take make-up advice from Kim Kardashian or Kylie Jenner? I am really bad at contour so I would love some contour tips from Kim Kardashian 🙂
9. Would you rather only wear blush or mascara? I actually don’t wear blush very often because I blush quite a lot naturally so I’d rather only wear mascara 🙂
10. Would you rather use lipstick on your eyes or eyeshadow on your lips? I think I would rather wear eyeshadow on my lips because there are so many different colours of eyeshadow and I think the powder would work better on the lips that trying to put lipstick on your eyes!

Let me know in the comments what you would answer to these questions 🙂

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July-ving and thriving Day 25: Mycenae in Greece in 1968 :)

My mum found her Great-Grandmas travel diaries a while ago and I have been typing them up for her to read and thought I would put them on here as well 🙂 If you want a little bit more background to read part one it can be found here 🙂

Mycenae

The entrance to the town is through the lion gate; above its massive lintel is a  triangle of limestone, carved into the “oldest piece of monumental sculpture in Europe”. 2 lions headless now, rear up, flanking a pillar , said to have had religious significance and what their forefeet rest on, is described as an altar, the great lintel of stone is 15 ft long and 6 ft thick. Just inside the gate is the cave in which the guard dog was housed. There are the marks where the chariot wheels wore groves in the stone streets and in the stone door posts are the holes made for the hinges. Before the gate are the stone lined shapes of a grave circle of a circular burial ground of kings and queens, copied from the Egyptians, who brought the custom with them when they came to help Mycenae repel invaders. In 6 graves of this royal cemetery, in 16 B.C, were found the skeletons of 12 men and 5 women and 2 children, all wrapped in gold leaf; also found in the graves were about 400 thin gold discs, with raised designs, and pierced for sewing on the garments, beautifully inlaid daggers and short swords, gold cups, alabaster vases, gold face masks, 3 of which were still covering the faces. The famous gold mask of Agamemnon was found here. Further away is The Tower of Agamemnon, a great beehive chamber, now called the treasury of Athens. No trace of the king or his treasure was found in it, it had been rifled in the past. A high walled passage leads to a slightly tapered doorway of which the weight of the lintel is 120 tonnes, above the door is an open triangle, placed to take the weight of the lintel. In old times, 2 green pillars were at the entrance, they have been removed but the holes are there to show where they were fixed; in the door posts are the holes for the hinges too. Inside the tomb, the round walls of smooth stone curve up to a peach dome, 40 ft high, reminiscent of a beehive. A door hole in the wall leads to a rock-hewn room, the main burial chamber; other graves were under the rock floor outside, all had been rifled. The acoustics of this beehive tomb are remarkable, also the echo. Agamemnon went to war; while he was away, his wife, clytemnstra , fell in love with another, so when Agamemnon returned from the war, he was murdered on a hill, is the ruined Palace of Perseus, built in this spot as there was water; at the foot of the hill are underground reservoirs, still with water, and cisterns; to reach them, 111 steps go downwards into the base of the hill. In front of the palace is a shallow circular grave site, hardly discernible now, but the shape is quite distinct.

Let me know in the comments if you have ever been to Mycenae or anywhere in Greece 🙂

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July-ving and thriving Day 24: My Favourite Taylor Swift Lyrics :)

On the day I’m writing this post Taylor Swift has just announced that she is releasing a new album!!!! I am a big Taylor Swift fan and have even done a Taylor Swift quiz with my two friends which was so lovely 🙂 So in honour of Taylors new album I thought I would write down some of my favourite Taylor Swift Lyrics 🙂

1. I have found that time can heal most anything and you might just find out who you are meant to be- Fifteen
2. We Are young and we are reckless, we will take this way too far- Blank Space
3. I promise you’ll never find another like me- Me
4. You have pointed out my flaws again, as if I don’t already see them- Mean
5. But I got smarter, I got harder in the nick of time, Honey I rose up from the dead I do it all the time- Look What You Made Me Do
6. I’m so sick of running as fast as I can, wondering if I’d get there quicker if I was a man- The Man
7. This is why we can’t have nice things, darling, Because you break them, I had to take them away, This is why we can’t have nice things, honey, Did you think I wouldn’t hear all the things you said about me?, This is why we can’t have nice things- This is why we can’t have nice things
8. Cause baby I could build a castle out of all the bricks they threw at me- New Romantics
9. I see it all in my head in burning red- Red
10. Cause all I know is we said Hello and your eyes look like coming home- Everything has changed

Let me know in the comments what your favourite Taylor Swift lyrics are 🙂

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July-ving and thriving Day 23: Updating my vision board :)

A few years ago I made a Vision Board on the door of my wardrobe using photos from the Instagrams of some of the different celebrities I look up to 🙂  A few days ago I decided to update it as some of the photos had started to fade and curl in the corner so I ordered some photos from photo-box 🙂

First I took down all of my old photos, recycled them and searched on Instagram for new photos to update the wall with 🙂

A few days later the photos arrived so I spent all evening putting up the new photos

Let me know in the comments if you have a vision board yourself 🙂

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July-ving and thriving Day 22: Ranking Live Musicals/Movie Musicals :)

During Lockdown and especially since Hamilton arrived on Disney + at the start of July I have been watching a lot of Musical films so I thought that I would rank them using the God Tier, Top Tier, Mid Tier and Awful tier ranking 🙂

God Tier: Hamilton on Disney +, The Greatest Showman, Rent + Rent Live, Grease Live, Hairspray Live, Les Mis, Jesus Christ Superstar Live, West Side Story, Mamma Mia, Mamma Mia Here We Go Again, Newsies, Dreamgirls

Top Tier: The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Singing in the Rain. LaLaLand, Into the Woods, The Wizard of Oz, Annie, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Funny Girl

Mid Tier: A Star is Born, The King and I

Awful Tier:

The are quite a few old school movie musicals that I haven’t seen such as Cabaret, My Fair Lady, An American in Paris, Chicago and Moulin Rouge and there are a few movie musicals coming out soon that I am so excited for including In The Heights and The Prom 🙂 I also haven’t included cats in this list because I haven’t seen it yet.

Let me know in the comments if there are any that are missing / if there are any that you would move around 🙂

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