Manchester Cat Cafe

Hey guys!

So I'm back in my hometown Leeds for like a month for Easter. I know it's pretty early but York uni's terms are pretty different. They seem to mirror Oxford and Cambridge's 8 week term by having a 10 week term as York is a part of the Russell group (a fancy group of uni's) At first it was very overwhelming but now I kinda like it.

Above are the pictures of my room I wanted to show you last week, my friend gave me the 2 prints which I love. On my other wall I have a friends calendar and poster (ofc), 2 sets of fairy lights with pictures of my friends and family, as well as cool arty posters. The white paper is just when I get my bathroom cleaned (exciting I know) and next to it are both my freshers and refreshers wristbands.

So I'm pretty sure I must have mentioned that I'm part of cat society. So we had a games night and we played this game called Exploding Kittens (yes it's as fun as it sounds) Honestly if you like cats or just games then I think you'll love it!

^ As you might know I have fallen in love with my campus, so here is a pretty picture of the lake ^

I painted my nails with my favourite nail polish colour which I've named my mermaid colour. What do you think?

So I've started going to weekly pub quizzes with my flatmates at our students union bar like 2 minutes away from our flat which is good. Last time there was a gossip girls round but I've only watched 2 seasons (I have an excuse tho)..I got too into it and did like no work oops.

This looks like a random picture but one day as I was walking to my lecture I saw a hot air balloon which was cool (okay it was kinda random)

Fast forward to 9th March when me, my best friend, my mum and my auntie all went to see Olly Murs at Leeds Direct Arena. He was so amazing!!

Check out my insta if you wanna see some cool boomerangs (yep I'll get that promo thanks;)

Now we're talking, so 18th March was the day I went with CatSoc to the Cat Cafe in Manchester. I'll post a few photos but I have put loads on my instagram.

I can't believe I haven't posted a picture of Smudge in ages, so here you go!

Forever showing off my cat (basically a crazy cat lady..)

Last week I went shopping in Leeds and I found a sign saying 'Don't mess with Yorkshire' so shoutout to everyone from Yorkshire!! (just the best people)

Spontaneously I decided to get a 3rd piercing on my right ear and a 2nd piercing on my left ear. I didn't realise until the woman was like one will take 6 weeks and the other will take 12 weeks to heal because it was on the cartilage. Oh so that was why it hurt like a bitch..honestly so painful.

Again blogger is not letting me upload it how annoying, but it's on my insta as with everything else. I do love it even though both of my earrings have badly bruised.

Now back to the present day (sorry it took me so long), yesterday I went with my friend to Brimham Rocks. It was so fun just climbing up rocks and having a cute little picnic. Luckily, it was such a lovely sunny day (I know, turns out the sun does exist in the UK)

Here's a panorama I did on my phone, just realising now there must have been a dog next to me causing that shadow (I'd be slightly worried if there wasn't one) *I also did some more cool boomerangs, oh if you don't know they're just like small videos on a loop that I'm obsessed with at the moment*

I genuinely think blogger has a mind of its own sometimes as it will only let me post this picture if I make it this big. Somehow it knows it's Mother's Day today and it just wants to emphasise that (or it's just messed up) I always draw mother's/father's day cards and birthday cards for my family because I used to when I was younger and now I just like carrying on the tradition. If you can't tell my mum loves pigs and flowers and I love hearts so I combined it all into this weird & wonderful creation!

For once, me and my family except my brother who's still in Bristol right now as he's doing his dissertation (I know sounds fun) so it was just me, my mum and dad. My mum won 40% off this place in the new John Lewis Victoria Quarter Centre called Cau so we had tea there. I had a BBQ burger as you can see mmm, I also had this amazing drink.

*okay my last plea to check my instagram because I wore my new favourite pink metallic skirt and my pink coat so I did a cool boomerang, that's it now I swear..*

Right so you're all updated, how do you feel now? Cleansed, calmed or exhausted and tired because same..losing an hour sleep last night wasn't great! Helpful tip if you remember: Spring Forward and Fall Back it's less confusing.

Anyway, speak to you next Sunday since I'm home until 18th April yay!

Byeeeee

Sophie

♥♥

Reading Week Back Home

Hey people!
(hey from currently editing this sophie..I wrote this like 1 week ago oops but I'm trying)
Guess who's back at the blogging game again, well obviously that's me. As usual I've left it to the last minute to write this as I'm off back to uni today aka just editing this now and I'm back. I've been back home for just over a week which has been so good to just relax at home with my family.

(looks back through my phone photos to see what I did..yes I live vicariously through my pictures and what, don't judge I bet you do it too;)



Given that I live in Leeds well mostly York now but it varies. So I finally went to visit the new John Lewis shopping centre to see what it was like.

Especially as I took pictures of the progress of the building at the start for my photography a level.

Of course I'm gonna show you some pictures but yeah it was architecturally such a cool building and even inside as well.

At the start of the 2nd term we all had our formatives (basically just exams that don't count) but surprisingly I only failed one of my modules and got the equivalent of a first in phonetics and phonology!

Anyway now back to my room...

I added this cool bottle which I got from one of my friends as a christmas present, so cute right!?
(it says friends together..you laugh I cry, you cry I cry, you fall I fall..over laughing)

Below are a couple of pictures of dogs but hold up while I explain as they aren't random..I have a story

So as I said it was exam week where some people unlike me actually had proper exams so as part of York uni's anti-stress week they brought in dogs from this charity. Isn't that the best, so obviously me and my flatmates had to go (yes had to)

So I have a funny story to tell you, so I came out of my bathroom (I have an ensuite if you didn't know) and I saw something flying around in my room. At first I thought it was a moth but nope it was a butterfly. Like how did it even get in my room?? I never have my window open..Anyway so it was like half 1 in the morning as I just finished working late (that's right..dedicated student right here) so I tried to catch it. This took way too long as it was flying everywhere. At one point in my delirious tired state I was pointing it to the window, forgetting my curtains were open so people opposite must have loved my breakdown. Eventually I caught it in my mug  and carried it to my window which opened the smallest amount so it nearly flew back in (I was so done at the point) 30 minutes later I could finally sleep in peace, moral of the story is that you never know what challenges you'll face at uni but if I can catch a butterfly at 2am then you'll be alright;)

Now it's time to show you the nicest pizza ever, so me and my friend discovered this study place called the Ron Cooke Hub which is even better than the library as there's always space. They do the best BBQ pizza mmmm
Just picture homer simpson drooling because that is what I look like right now.

At least this is better quality than the picture below, I adore sunsets!

Excuse my shitty iPhone quality I wish it was better but aren't the colours so pretty over the lake.
So I was gonna post several selfies but I don't wanna be that vain on the internet, also the reason why I've only posted 1 selfie on Instagram (I know..am I really a girl though) Instead I'm gonna try to add a fashion page so you can see what I love to wear aka a new look/topshop page etc.

So, throwback to Refreshers week (basically round 2 of freshers week) The first night was themed so everyone wore white t-shirts and everyone had to decorate them. This is how mine ended up when I let my flatmates take over (ignore the fact my name is spelt wrong..do I care?! noo never..I mean it is a really difficult name to spell *rolls eyes to the back of my skull*) 

Actually screw that, blogger won't upload it without the images being the size of my blog. Just imagine a shirt saying tea not dinner (breakfast lunch and tea!!), grammar is life, sopie (I mean cmon), their there they're damn it (truth) and hardcore northern lass (yep that's right). 

Okay so here are some of my favourite pictures I took when I went out with Photography Society to this place called The Quiet Place. I used my canon DSLR of course and someone swung a fire stick around and then some glowsticks, my favourite part is the pretty reflection. 

Can you work out what this says? (hint what did I take..)

Okay, that's it don't worry!

Now to some exciting news! So me, my course mate and her flatmate have found a house for next year! We've already signed the agreement, payed a £60 admin fee and a £300 loan. It's actually a bungalow but it's honestly nicer than any of the actual houses we saw like the kitchens were tiny and grimy whereas our kitchen is huge and we have a nice living room, nice bedrooms and a garden (our garden is gonna look amazing)

So here are the pictures I took, they're better than the ones they put online (throwing shade everywhere) but I was the one that found our house which makes me feel happy.

Side note: my bedroom picture has a random guy in (who was currently living there) so I'll just show you when we officially move in. (sorry about the pixelated images)

This is our living room!       This is our kitchen!

Finally this is our garden

Oh yeah I nearly forgot to show you the front! 

This may seem random but this is what happens to the poor ducks when the lake freezes over aw

Haven't posted a food picture in a while, so to get it back to what's important. When I went home for reading week I went out with my family to Pizza Express (it is reasonably priced when you have tesco vouchers, shoutout to tesco) and I had my first calzone which was amazing!

So in light of current world events that's been happening, I need to post this. 

"BUILD BRIDGES NOT WALLS" 

Just in case any idiot who reads my blog supports trump because thanks but no thanks, come back to me when you have changed your morals. My uni student elections have been going on and someone wrote this on a sign, isn't that great!!

Slightly irrelevant point but I joined Cat Society 1st term and it's the best thing, at the end of term we are off to Manchester to visit the cat cafe!! I am so excited ahh

Wow sorry for the long post but you'll be happy to know I'm done! Looks like you're all caught up with my life. (unfortunately you can't get this time back unless you have amnesia in which case, the joke's on you)

Hope you're enjoying school/uni/work as much as possible.

I promise I will talk sooner after this!

I'm off back home march 18th!! So see you then

Sophie

♥♥

PS: I'm dying to show you my decorated wall but blogger is being a pain so hopefully you'll see soon.