It's been almost a month since I last posted anything and I feel like I have a lot to catch up on. On the 1st of May, I had a rather long trip out to Trafford Centre in Manchester with my mum and a close friend. The place is absolutely huge! It took about two hours to get there and all day to look around all of the shops. I ended up coming home with two new puppets which are still yet to be officially named, although myself and my friend Jo who also drove us there came up with the names Manny and Maple between us. This day also marks the first day I had ever been in a Selfridges store.
There's been a few things I have gotten back into. I've started watching Doctor Who and going to the gym more frequently again. There has also been a fair few stressful instances at work again recently. Our cash machine broke and everyone expected that we do cash back. We don't. I've had a fair amount of Costa's with my friend that I met from my first college course, Peter.
The wether has been considerably better this month so I have been making the most of it, with the exception of filming. Myself and my mum went to Wollaton Park a couple of weeks ago for a pick nick and a kick about after a long day shopping around Nottingham city centre. I managed to get quite a few good action shots of my mum that day, which I'm not sure she's greatly pleased about. It had been ages since myself and my mum had done anything like this. We used to play about all of the time on the garden when I was still in school but, hardly ever now.
Recently, I've gotten into bad habits of staying up late. My new regular bedtime is now more like 2-3am, which is not healthy. All I seem to do with this time is scroll through Facebook on my iPad or watch videos on YouTube. I've been playing The Sims Freeplay a lot recently too. None of it is healthy. I have however been trying my best to not stay up as late as I have been but, sometimes I just can't help it when I find an adorable, obscure video of David Tennant, a man whom's birthday it was recently. Would you believe he's now 45. It seems only yesterday he was living his childhood dream of playing the 10th doctor, of course I still watch all of the episodes today.
Last weekend I went away for a couple of days with my mum, dad and auntie. We went on the Friday morning and set off to Whitley Bay Holiday Park. We've had been there once before and decided to go again. Friday we didn't really do much, we didn't even go out to see the onsite entertainment. I didn't bother doing that any of the nights because I almost know exactly what its going to be like if its a band playing, give or take stage presence and quality. Saturday we went into the town of Whitley Bay, which was quite nice. Nothing had really changed from the last time and we went to Sambucca's again for lunch, where I also sampled their Nutella cheesecake. Sunday, we went to the Beamish living museum which was certainly very interesting. There was a lot to see and plenty to get around, with a tram and bus service connecting all of the areas. It was quite a fascinating day and probably the best part of the holiday. Monday was the morning we had to leave the site so it was more of a rush around to get off home and not forget anything in the process. I was quite happy to be going home, feeling satisfied. I do worry a lot when we go away incase we ever get burgled but, thankfully that didn't happen. It's always a relief to get home and be back to normality.
I have been trying new things lately out of inspiration from listening to Doctor Who audio books, specifically the tenth doctor collect that was just released this month. So, naturally I decided to have a go at writing my very own radio play. I only started this other night and I managed to reach page 7, including a full page of charter ideas and motives. I really have missed creating my own story. This is another thing that I used to do all of the time when I was in school. One of my old English teachers shot me down for it because one seemed a little too repetitive. It did bother me but, I'm glad I've found a new way of writing and portraying my creative ideas that suits me more. I'm really enjoying it.
In other news, my favourite group of guys; The Piano Guys turned 5 this month and also released a new music
video: The Jungle Book / Sarabande (Mayan Style). I would like to take a moment for this part of my blog to congratulate them on how far they have come in such a short space of time. I still remember the first day I discovered them back in college and when I instantly fell in love with their ideas. I hope I get to see them live again soon, even if I have to wait until next year!
