6 things you should do at the beach

 

1. Purchase some food, only to promptly get it stolen by a seagull

 

2. Sing a mix of lyrics at the top of your voice, partly for fun and partly to

scare away said seagull.

 

My playlist:

True Believer by Avicci (I wasn't always the brightest, until I learnt how to dance)

Best day of my life by American Authors (the sun was out till midnight)

This One's For You by David Guetta, Zara Larsson (hear our hearts beat together)

Shots by Imagine Dragons (oh I'm gonna mess this up, oh this is just my luck)

 

 

3. Do at least one cartwheel, preferably in the water so that when you fall over you only get wet instead of bruised.

 

4. Take approximately 72 photos, mainly doubles and all blurry.

 

5. Those 72 don't include all the failed selfies and attempts at photographing Mr Seagull, just so you can prove to everyone that this DID ACTUALLY happen.

 

6. Draw a heart in the sand, take a photo of it and send love to everyone in the world....

....except the seagull.

Millie

The Hidden Oracle

The usual spoiler alerts....

Ok so yes one half of me says Rick Riordan is pulling out the Percy Jackson thing, but the other half of me is fangirling all over this new edition to my bookshelf!

I liked Apollo's view on the human world in general and the references back to actual Greek Mythology mixed in with Modern references Rick Riordan thought Apollo might have done. Like his whole trouble over Daphne and Hyanthesis and his realisations about himself.
    Although I didn't like the Snapchat, Facebook, Hashtag bits. It felt like they were just dropped in to try and please a modern audience and didn't flow with the rest of the story.
So, Hi Rick, Please can you not put any references like that in the next one? I prefer your old style!

I found that the new characters aren't very likeable. They don't have much going on except Apollo's kids and Meg and I don't know about anyone else but I didn't particularly feel very attached to any of them. However I am still in love with all the old characters that made an appearance, especially Nico di Angelo and all his funny conversations with Will Solace and the few glimpses of Percy Jackson we saw. Sad I know but you have to love Apollo's reaction to his apartment, mum, food, ego....
    And Leo Valdez with his metal dragon and ex goddess is going to be in the next book with a major part I'm so excited I have lost the power of punctuation and grammar who cares anyway Leo's back yay

    Even though I am not too keen on the new characters, I love the whole new tri concept thing!
I have heard people say that it doesn't make sense and "wait, the whole Gaia thing was because of some past their time emperors?", but I think it wraps everything weird that ever happened in the world of Percy Jackson together nicely and awesomely and also opens up a hole in Rick Riordan world for him to write a whole bunch more amazing books!! *please, my whole career as a Percy Jackson fangirl would be over if he didn't and that would be tragic*.
   
Last of all I just feel that I should mention
        the haikus at the (5)
        beginning of each chapter (7)
        genius I know (5)
Sorry that was a really bad attempt at a haiku....

Millie x

Singing with my friend

Hi guys, 'sup. Jess(Fairydancer8) and I have got a quick little post with two music playlists for you today. Feel free to tell us what your favourite songs are too and we will do a follow up post later on!!

Millie

Favourite song at the moment: True Colours by Kesha and Zedd

Favourite song when we were little: Dancing Queen by ABBA

Feel good song: Superheroes by The Script

Crying song: Human by Christina Perri

Favourite song of all time: All is a very long time so I don't have a song yet....

 

Jess

Favourite song at the moment: Elastic Heart by Sia

Favourite song when we were little: Count on me by Bruno Mars or New York by Alicia Keys

Feel good song: Can't stop the feeling by Justin Timberlake

Crying song: Human by Christina Perri (As well!)

Favourite song of all time: Bridge over troubled water by Simon and Garfunkle

 

Millie and Jess

Come walk with me beneath the woodland canopy....

where satyrs roam and run barefoot....

 



 

and secret bluebells grow....

(except something kind of trampled them - maybe a mini bulldozer....or the rain)

 



 

next to the nymphs playing in the sun dappled pool....



 

and white blossoms flew in the wind....

 

 

I have more old romantic lines of blank verse but I think that's enough for one post!

May Fair

 

Is it only my town that thinks it is a good idea to put plastic ducks in a river and cheer them on or is this a nationwide thing? The most a duck has ever won us is a fiver. That couldn't even buy you candyfloss. Maybe you could, I don't know, bet on another duck! Yay.

 

We have a May Fair every year. There are stalls from local shops and organizations, the kids get free range with a load of sports equipment, local singers do their thing in a ring at the centre, there's a man using a chainsaw to turn a piece of wood into a hare (that was a first for this year!) and the piece de resistance (say in French accent)....the dog show. This dog show lasts FOREVER. There are more categories then you would think possible.

 

I couldn't get any closer to take a photo of the ducks and I was trying to crop out the random cadets pushing the stray ducks down the river, so I apologize for the bad photos!

 

Post soon, Millie x

10 things on my notice board

You can tell a lot about a person from what they pin on their notice board. At least that is true for me.

1. A 6 year old grass rose made and dipped into a hot spring for me by a lady at a Maori village in New Zealand when I was 8.

2. A ticket to see Much Ado about Nothing at the Minack theatre last summer.

3. Various doodles of Pride and Prejudice characters and Despondent guys >>

4. A photo of a friend and I on a one day surfing course for my 12th birthday.

5. A card that says "Be HAPPY it drives people CRAZY".

6. A letter for a course with Birmingham Royal Ballet.

7. Tickets to Harry Potter world.

8. A cross given to me by my grandparents for my confirmation.

9. A list of names of people who contributed to stopping elephant poaching.

10. A big A4 photo of my family from about 4 years ago.

So what does that say about me? I'm not sure I want to know! What is on your notice board?
Millie x

101 Dalmatians

 

Dalmatians. Took me ages to work out how to spell that.

 

Hi. No I haven't turned into Cruella di vil over night (at least I think I haven't?), instead something far more exciting has happened. If you would be so kind as to queue the drumroll....
 

This is official my 101st blog post!!

*multi coloured streamers*



 

 

Here's to a million and 1 Dalmatians more. Millie x

These are a few of my favourite things (at the moment)

1. Dark purple nail varnish
    I own a Barry M Quick Dry in Sprint Finish and a Seventeen Lasting Fix nail Colour both gorgeous shades of dark purple. No matter how long I leave the colour on for, the colour still manages to never clash with what I wear.

2. Pride and Prejudice.
    The book, notes, manga, TV series, film, anything vaguely Lizzie Bennet or Mr Darcy related basically.

3 Willow by Jasmine Thompson
    I have said this before but this girls voice....aahh, wow.

4. Full length, Empire line, white dresses with long gloves.
    Notice the Pride and Prejudice theme continuing....let's just say, I really, really would like one. Not sure where I would wear it though....

5. The Durrells
    I actually need to know what happens.

• Does Larry's second book get published
• What happens to Lesley and his general happiness
• Does Margo see her gardener again - please say she does, please.
• Please don't bring the drunk captain back AGAIN. Just no.
• Did anyone else nearly die with cringing at the bit with the yacht?
• What's wrong with miniature pianos? No seriously, what is?
• I feel for Larry about finishing all his books. Doesn't everyone?

6. Smiggle stationary
    I mean does anyone know of another place that sells juice carton shaped pencils cases?

 

Millie x

Always that awkward situation

 

Before you ask, No the awkward situation did not involve toffee apples, I took these a few weeks ago.

 

 

What Awkward situation?  Photos. Posed photos. In costume. Did I mention what costume? No. Because as someone quite rightly pointed out those costumes made us look like we stepped out of a nursery rhyme. No kidding.

Anyway, we had photos taken in our costumes for a dance show.
This always poses some problems -

Trying to be really clever and turn or jump is ok until you realise you're not going to get a perfect picture the first time and you end up doing the same coupe turn 50 times over and get dizzy and fall over. Not a good look to be honest.

Stretching in costume whilst waiting. That was never going to turn out right.

Waiting in between photos. While the lady checks how the photo turned out or adjusts the light and you're just standing there in front of the big white screen and everybody is looking at you. What am I supposed to do with my hands? Wait - should I be posing? Is she ready? Oh is this the point when I smile? No, not yet. Ooops.

Make up. Like BRIGHT RED lipstick and blue eye shadow kind of make up.

Forgetting to smile. Why. Why do I do that? And then when the camera lady has to tell you to smile like she does with the three year olds. Embarrassing.

Didn't everyone else's pictures take far less time?

Millie x

p.s. I have some drafts in the line up so I will be blogging regularly again. Probably.

My blogging inspiration

To tell the truth I don't really have a method as such, not like some people who have a planning diary and all that. I get an idea, I think of how to tell you about the idea in a funny/interesting way, then I write it, get someone to grammar check and hit publish. End of. But I get the ideas in the first place from all sorts of things.


1. Taking a picture and basing the post around it.
    I am constantly taking pictures and the people I am with think I am really weird for just suddenly stopping in the middle of the pavement, oh look a pretty flower, I must take a photo. Jess definitely thought I was weird when I took a picture of my veggie burger in that diner for this post!

2. Reading.
    Either books/guides/how to's or other people's blogs. I obviously don't copy content, but reading other peoples blogs is a really good way of getting ideas to adapt for yourself. Say I saw a blogger post their current playlist, so I decided to post my own, way back then this time last year.

3. Tv/documentary's/films/cinema.
    This is obvious, I am constantly blogging about movies.

4. Things people say.
Some of the funniest things I have posted were based on something that I either word puked or someone else did. I once did an entire post on the things me and a friend said at a sleepover.

5. Crafty stuff, recipes and how to's
    Beware if you bake anything in my house as a picture will soon appear on my blog!

6. Music
    I listen to a song *oh that's nice, lets gush about it on my blog*.

How do you get inspiration? Millie x

Easter and Excuses

So. Let's start with Happy Easter and move onto my excuses for not blogging *wince*.

1. My whole family had flu and all I did for 2 weeks was sit on the sofa watching Next Step re-runs and eating yogurt. I had forgotten how amazing Muller fruit corners are.

2. Straight after the flu I had to dance every Friday, Saturday, Sunday for three weeks and slept the weekdays. No kidding.

Am I forgiven? Probably not but I tried....

So, did you have a good Easter?

I got a very adorable toy rabbit and some chocolate!!
I now have the difficult job of naming the bunny....Here are the names my friend and I came up with - it's a girl by the way -,

1. Beatrice

or

2. Hero

and if it was a guy we decided it would be called either,

1. Edward Watson

or

2. Kenneth

but it looks like a girl so I think Beatrice is the best option!!

Did anyone guess what 3 of those names mean? The Much Ado about Nothing theme?!!

Anyway I will post soon and get back to regular blogging providing I don't get ill again....

Around the world and back in time for tea

I made this shift with my Ganga and honestly I have had sooo many lovely comments every single time I have worn it out! The first time I was at a pannier market with my friend just casually admiring some candles called something about dragons (??) and then the ladies running the stall were like “where did you get your dress?”

“I made it”

“wow….”

And yah. It kinda spiralled, with a conversation about bowler hats and that pink ladies ad (they assured me they couldn’t do that even though I didn’t ask), I also vaguely remember something about fairy dust, I don’t know maybe they were selling some!

I got the material when I was looking for something to make my curtains out of, so it is actually curtain material! We kinda bought it not knowing what to do with it, just cause the pattern was awesome, but then this came around and I love it! So yah thanks to anyone who said it was cool!

 

 

Looks cute with tights, boots and a denim jacket or I love wearing it with a sporty vibe, like “Yeah, I could bring out my tennis racket any moment”! I’ve never tried playing tennis in this dress, but I am pretty sure it wouldn’t be very practical…. Wear with bare legs and sneakers in a bright colour and a sweatshirt tied around your middle. X

2 months of resolutions, let's take a look back

This time two months ago I posted a resolutions post, like most bloggers. Now I decided to look back and see how I was doing with them!

Blog regularly Well, I think I can tick this one!

 

Try not to break my phone This was always a bit of a silly one, but I am pleased to say that I haven't broken it....yet!

 

Cook more Ahh, yes. Well. This failed drastically. I even forgot this was one of my resolutions until I looked back!

 

Take a run or at least a walk everyday This was never going to work. But I do run or walk about 3 times a week on average, so not exactly, but halfway there?!

 

Dance better  Yeh, well I don't actually know if this is happening? But I am so trying harder.

Ok, basically what happened here is that I didn't follow my own advice. I didn't do the whole organise into small steps, stick stickers on your calendar thing. Nor did I follow advice number 6. which was, Don't give up on small things. Like rain. It is so hard to force yourself to run in the rain. I mean who wants to run down a country lane in the rain? That is basically just like asking to ruin your leggings with mud.

Anyway I think the conclusion of that is, basically:

I suck at keeping at things, except things I want to do, aka blog, dance....xx

10 random bits of my life this fortnight

Hi. Well. I am not going to be like one of those people who are all like "Oh my gosh, I am so so sorry I haven't posted, I feel awful, but I have just been so so busy, excuse, excuse....", because that just gets boring after a while. Actually I am very guilty of doing that when I forgot to post everyday in advent for Christmas 2015. But whatever. I am just going to say that I actually have nothing interesting to post except some random thoughts/reviews/life stuff that I have scribbled down or thought of over the past few days, with some equally mundane pictures. So I made it into a 10 things post. Congratulations in advance if you manage to read this all word for word.


1. I watched the ballet A Winters Tale a few days ago. Christopher Weeldon's choreography is always interesting and I love the whole classical feeling in Act 2, but not classical if you get what I mean. More contemporary with flexed feet in random places. Very technical terminology that!
Plus Edward Watson and Lauren Cuthbertson dance amazingly together, they create such feeling.

2. We were walking the other day when, surprise! We found a dead log that someone had painted....

3. Thoughts about - Cheerleader by Pentatonix

1. I never really liked the original of this song by OMI but with Pentatonix's fresh new take I love it!

2. The setting for the music video is awesome with just the right sort of vibe for the band and the song - Fresh, cute, funky taken old school.

3. Oh and one last thing I just HAVE to say: Kevin is literally a one-man band, I swear.

Here is a link to the video, please watch, these guys are awesome.
All views and opinions are my own, I really do think Pentatonix are awesome.

4. I have posted pictures of this coffee shop before at Christmas and again here so I am giving it it's very own label the hot chocolate shop!

 



5. A dragon doodle. But isn't it cute?!

 

6.  I took this when I was out with Jess and she was like so embarrassed I was taking pictures of rooftops, like "I don't know this person"!! *Sorry Jess*!!

 

7. Thanks to Duolingo I can now say in French - I am a snake! Hmm can't think of any situation where I would need to say that? Unless I was like an evil villain, mwah ha ha I am sneaky, I am a snake, Je suis un serpent!! Please do not analyse my stupid train of thought....

 

 

 

8. Cupcakes! My lil sister made these.

 

Things you should say to your cupcake before eating it according to the wisdom of a 9 year old:

1. What's your name?

2. Do you want to be eaten?

3. Tough luck, I need some sugar

Ok I added that last one.

 

 

9. These are a few pictures from that family day out that I mentioned. I haven't got round to editing the others yet, but should do soon.

 

10. Why is the 10th thing always the hardest to think of? I will just finish with an old photo that 11 year old me took for this post and I felt needed a 2nd chance x

 



I swear she's destined for the screen. Vance Joy

Fairydancer8: 10 random things that I thought today!!

Fairydancer8: 10 random things that I thought today!!:

Hey, so here is my amazing 10 things!! Here you go!:

10 random things that I thought today!!

1. Why are sheep soooooo fluffy and we are not?! I mean it's not fair!!

2. Why your stomach rumbles when everything is quite?! I mean why?!

3. How come trees can't speak?!

4. Why does your phone always die when you NEED to use it?!

5. How come bus doors always close on your rucksack?!

6. When you cut worms in half (not saying that I do!) why do you still have 2 alive worms?! I mean if you cut us in half we do not duplicate, so why do they?!

7. How come we don't have tails?! Why I thought that, I don't know!!

8. Why are people sooooo accessed with tractors?! (Not like I have a problem with them or anything!!)

9. Do clouds go grey when they are unhappy?!

10.  How come it takes so long to do 10 things?!

So I hope that you enjoyed that, it was surprisingly fun to write!! And now I know how weird I am!! But I know that you guys already knew!!! But for now,

BYE!!!!

 

Hope you found that funny, I will be posting mine soon as I get my brain to think of 10 things! x

500 words

Phew that's over. 500 words I mean. The deadline has passed. Submit button been pressed and all is fine. Or at least until the whole "oh my gosh was my story really truly good enough" thing kicks in.
I am not giving any spoilers about what my story is about but I can tell you what it is not about.
Basically I had a story idea. It was going to be the most amazing book of all time....I wrote pages and pages on this subject and everyone I showed it to thought it was really good - not bragging or anything though. So when 500 words came around this year, I was like "why shouldn't I enter it, since it is my last year before I am too old, I may as well go out with a kabam".
I wrote it up on my laptop, tweaking it to fit the requirements. The only problem was that no matter how hard I tweaked or how much I cut out, the characters refused to be cut down to 500 words.
This has happened to me in every single year of me entering 500 words.
In the end I wrote a brand new story on a totally different subject, like 4 hours before the deadline.
It is good-ish (or at least I think it is?!) but it meant me giving up on a few awesome ideas from the last story, that I will tell you because all they will do otherwise is sit on my shelf;

A Jack Sparrow like character who is one of the leaders of a global gang of highwaymen in the sky.

A teenage stowaway and his lil sister

A girl power kind of tough girl figure who fly's after her kidnapped brother

An evil dude with many faces who has fingers in all the major cites of the world apart from one

Good guys being forced to be bad guys and hunt other good guys including the only two people
who could possibly stop this evil dude.

Magical ponies flying through the sky....

Actually no, not that last one. All those things don't sound very impressive when written down like that....but I promise they do all work together but it is too complicated to break down. *sorry*.

 

Did anybody else enter 500 words? See you soon x