Rachel Ellen

Tuesday, 24 June 2014

19:54

Time Flies...

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Time Flies...
We've all heard the phrase time flies when you're having fun, but it seems that as you get older, time just flies. (I'm only 20, I think I'm having a major midlife crisis!)
Look how much I've changed! What's even worse is the picture on the right is from about 18 months ago as well so it's not even recent!

 I have just got my result for my second year of uni, which leaves me as a third year now, I honestly feel like I'm still fresh out of high school. 
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Sunday, 22 June 2014

12:44

Home VS Uni

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Home VS Uni
I've been home from university for about five weeks now and I'm getting well used to being back home. I have just finished my second year of uni, so this could be my last summer as a student scary, depending on what I do next year, of course. Today's post will be a list of pros and cons to living back at home.

 Pro - At home, I get the majority of my meals made for me, I am a very bad and lazy cook so you can't even imagine the relief that this is. Below are the kind of thing I tend to live on at uni: 
(18p noodles from Aldi, put a bit of curry powder and pepper in and you're onto a cheap tasty meal - uni top tip!)

 Con - Not being able to choose what I eat, I am fussy enough to not like potatoes so when I am cooking for myself, I don't have any at all. At home I either have to eat them or don't eat :(

 Pro - All my close friends from primary school, high school and college all live very close to me, within a reasonable
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Tuesday, 17 June 2014

23:10

My Summer Job

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My Summer Job
I keep promising myself I will post more on my blog and then before I know it a whole week has come around and I haven't posted anything. I am now, well into the swing of my summer job, 9-5 Monday-Friday, eugh it almost makes me feel like a grown up, but not quite. 

 There's a few reasons I enjoy working over my summer breaks:

  1. Most importantly, I get paid. So for a few months before Christmas I live like the Queen of students (until I spend it all)
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Wednesday, 11 June 2014

20:09

Out and About

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Out and About
Recently I've been to a few different places, my last post here shows my recent trip to Blue Planet Aquarium, lots of pictures for you to check out. And from there we visited Cheshire Oaks Outlet which is huge, so many shops which included a Cadbury's shop (10 Creme Eggs for £2, what a bargain!) 

 I also spent a few days in Wales, which included a lot of vegging out (sometimes you just need to do nothing!) We also went on a few walks.
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Friday, 6 June 2014

12:27

Blue Planet Aquarium

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Blue Planet Aquarium
Earlier this week I went to Blue Planet Aquarium  in Cheshire. Being someone who's always loved animals and my boyfriend being a fisherman, this was definitely a good idea for a day out for us.

 The biggest clown fish I've ever seen, it was bigger than the size of the palm of my hand.

 It can't just be me that finds stingray's faces hilarious?

 Otters eating dead chicks. fairly gross but they're still super cute!

 A selfie with a shark was a lot more challenging than I thought, they move way too fast! Below, I just about managed one with a stingray but unfortunately my face let the side down (not that my eye on the one above didn't!)

 We also watched the sting ray feed where they told us the animals in the curved tunnel look only 2/3 of their actual size, if you've been  I'm sure you can imagine how scary the real size must be.



I realise this is quite a lazy post with mostly pictures, but let's be honest, if you see a post about an aquarium, all you're really interested in is the pictures!

Thanks for reading

Rachel xx
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Tuesday, 20 May 2014

19:55

Week Update

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Week Update
Wow I've been so rubbish at blogging! I've been super busy since my last post (and for a good few weeks before that) But I don't really have a lot to talk about. My most important news is finishing second year of uni, finally! I was so excited I couldn't get my snapchat picture the same way as the writing, useless!
After my permanent state of panic and 15,000 words in 5 different assignments, I finally got there (and yes, I have used a hair grip as a paperclip on one of my assignments)

 I've been on a few walks, and have no pictures because I'm an even worse blogger than I originally thought, but they are places I will probably go back to this summer. I promise to be better with pictures, so look out for future posts about different parks and lakes I might be going to.

 On Sunday I went to a place called Gordon Riggs (a garden centre with a little cafe) with my mum, dad and niece. Me and my Mum shared such a nice afternoon tea:
it had the little buckets of sauce, a plant pot of salad and it was super tasty.

 So now, the brief weekend of sun in England is over, I'm back in work four days a week - no rest for the wicked - and hopefully I can get a lot more blog posts fired at you

 thanks for reading

 Rachel xx
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Monday, 12 May 2014

16:34

Obligatory McBusted Post

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Obligatory McBusted Post
SPOILER WARNING!!! 

 If you are going to see McBusted soon don't look at this blog post, let yourself have the beauty of a surprise!

 I went to see them on Saturday (10th) of May, the middle of three consecutive Manchester Phones 4 U arena shows.

What I loved about this McBusted concert was that it wasn't just the music, it was a whole show, from Dougie's inflatable balls to floating triple breasts, Matt's wedding dress, the T-shirt guns and a topless Harry you were entertained the whole way through. They had VTs of the Busted press conference, Hillbilly McBusted, Tom's wedding speech they had an "Intergalactical frisbee" :
Short clip of Star Girl.

Following the first VT of the Busted split, they had a short Back To The Future Spoof, then bangs and fire and there a Delorean on stage, Mcfly fly out of the floor and Matt and James leave the Delorean. Needless to say I've never been so excited (Yes I am 20, yes I felt about 10!)


They even had a Jackson 5 cover and Danny, Matt and James had a little dance routine which you can just about see in this video:
On this show they did, what they told us was the first time at a show, the human pyramid:

There were certain songs I wish they'd played, but of course after a show like that I can't really complain

 I think it's safe to say this is one of the most talked about tours in the UK this year, whether you like it or not I bet you've spoken about it!
(Triple-breasted women, you get it?)

There's a very fulfilled 8 year old me, and an even happier 20 year old! I think the pre-show picture shows enough


As for the "To Be Continued" at the end, I have to say I'm super excited.

Thanks for reading

Rachel xx
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