Great Things About Life This Week #12

• Longleat Safari Park! My friend Massimo came to visit, and we went to Longleat with my mum, and it was amazing! We held a tarantula called Rosie and I also held a snake called... wait for it... Orville. Amazing.
• Tarantulas are proper amazing creatures. I don't like spiders, don't get me wrong, but this tarantula was just beautiful. I'm sure 90% of you disagree with me, but it was just incredible to see it up close and realise that it wasn't going to hurt me. It just sat there all light and furry chillin' out. Amazing.
• Today I get to see lots of my favourite people, including my lovely boyfriend, my wonderful nieces and sister, my wicked friends Laura and Vicky, and I also get to top all this off with a Chinese. Excellent.
  

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My friends are talented.

So, I have lots of very talented friends and this blog is going to plug them.

ALL HAIL INSTALLMENT ONE OF 'MY FRIENDS ARE TALENTED!'

Laura Coates.

I have mentioned her once before, but she is a very talented artist and here is her blog which showcases her work. Once, she and I ate dinosaur turkey shapes whilst watching Comic Relief and we both have a love affair with Winchester. Factzzz.

Adam Guest.

Adam is in a band called awordlike.attack and you can find them on myspace here! It says "They play post-hardcore mixed with elements of post-rock and electronica" but I say "They are great, you should listen to them but mainly you should see them live because they are great". You can decide which of these 2 thrilling sentences makes you want to listen to them most, but definitely see them live if you like that kind of thing and there is an opportunity because they are awesome. Loads of energy and makes you want to jump up and down and generally go mental. Adam will no doubt rip me for this half arsed plug but we have established that I am rubbish at describing how music sounds, I just know if I like it or not. Haha.

Luke Leighfield.

Luke is a musician who plays an obscene amount of gigs and works very hard. He writes wicked pop songs (that is an accurate description for once) and this is his myspace which has a very long list of other ways you can represent for the Leighfield camp including Twitter, Last.fm etc. He lives in Southampton and plays gigs all over the world and when you listen to one of his songs it's like opening a small box with a shining light of beautiful pop music inside that drenches your every core and leaves you feeling an afterglow of pop euphoria.

PART TWO COMING SOON!

Massively Great Quotes #9

"Friendship is something that raised us almost above humanity. It is the sort of love one can imagine between angels."
- C.S Lewis

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Wonderful Websites #1

Steals & Stitches:
My friend Laura is a very talented artist and you should all read & follow her blog.

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Me & My Friends #2

Kimberley Masters

Kim Masters is incredibly talented. She is a very clever artist and writer and is one of the only people who could rival me in a quote off. During our 7 years of friendship, she has brought many wonderful things & memories into my life! We made friends when we worked together at a hands on science place in Weymouth called Discovery. Our job was literally so easy. We hardly did anything apart from press some buttons on a till occasionally, and we were so naughty in that job. We would invite friends to just come to our shifts with us simply because it was just like hanging out rather than work. Kim's boyfriend Dan deserves a mention here as most of the time I would turn up on a Saturday or Sunday and he would be there doing college work, or helping Kim with a delivery. We listened to wicked music when we shouldn't have, we played Boink Wars (not as dodgy as it sounds), we dressed up little bendy men (again, not as dodgy as it sounds), we played consequences and a host of other dastardly deeds. It was and will remain the best job ever, mainly because she was there! Kim and I also took part in what was known as the Best Day Ever, 5th October 2003 when we went to a geek convention known as Collectormania and stood in a very long queue and met Dominic Monaghan & Elijah Wood. Sean Astin also had a little chat with us and Andy Serkis waved at us through a window. So, to sum up: we were massive Lord Of The Rings geeks. G33ks. Lol. 4 lyf.

Kim is also a talented illustrator, and here are some of her drawings:








& here is a photo that she took of a snowflake on Dan's hair. I think it's one of the best things I've ever seen.



So there we go, beautiful Kimberley.

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Me & My Friends #1

Hayley O'Toole

Me and Hayley became friends during our first year of Univeristy. We were at a student lunch at one of the churches in Winchester, and had the same t-shirt on in different colours. She made some kind of sarcastic remark whilst we were getting a jacket potato and i distinctly remember thinking how mean she was. Then someones cardigan had a hole in it and she got out a sewing kit (!!) from her bag and fixed it. Then I remember thinking how mental she was. Who carries around a sewing kit? Er yeah. Then after Christian Union one night we were walking to the pub and I was singing a song which she promptly joined in with. I remember thinking then that she was probably alright. After that she came to my halls and we talked for ages and ages about loads of things. Pretty much from then on we weren't really apart during the first year of University. I used to think we worked really well as mates because we were similar, but we aren't really similar at all. Maybe that's why it works. We've done loads of things together in the 5 years we've known eachother, including holidays, gigs, days out, and countless memories which would take far too long to mention. She usually wins @ life and she even went to help starving kids in Bangladesh in the summer. Wow. Although she's not so graceful when she falls off the bed when dancing to Paramore. Video evidence to come.