Coffee, Photo Shoots, Gatherings and Cycling!

Been a nice day, after isolating myself from people for a day I feel like myself again. By that I mean not having to go anywhere, not having to do anything just going home after work, reading a book, laying about my bed in my brand new fox socks, listening to tunes., full volume (hurray my crazy neighbour has moved out!) editing some pictures and drinking a lot of tea, because it's damn cold in my house!

  

I am not even going to try and summarize the last three weeks! But I think a lot has happened. I've done a photo shoot with a girl called Alex that I met a couple of months ago at one of the metal Wednesday's things. Last Friday I volunteered for ffotogallery and it was loads of fun. It was a preview evening for Paul Reas's exhibition 'Day Dreaming About the Good Times?' I thought his work was really interesting,  his images represent British class and culture, but are slightly bizzare images. Paul was there but I didn't get to talk to him. Me and Jamie (or was it Bob?) were behind the desk, pouring the free drinks and topping up the nibbles whilst sneakily drinking ourselves. It got pretty merry towards the end, walked out of the gallery pissed.

Here's a photograph of his:)

 

 Ewan stayed over my house on Sunday night. Sunday morning I had to call in sick due to a horrible stomach virus! Was throwing up all Sunday morning, had sweaty shakes and basically just slept all day. Ate like a total of a strawberry and a kiwi within space of nearly two days!  Sadly I was selfish and didn't think about how contagious the bus was! Ewan got it a day later :( Anyway on Monday I've had enough of my house and had to do something.

Before meeting Al for the shoot Louise cycled down mine to grab some notes. I really wanted to go for a hot drink somewhere, so we went to Coffee 1# five minutes walk from mine. It was really lovely and I got the 10th drink free for my coffee card.  Me and Lou had a cosy catch up then she headed home to do her photography work and I headed to Penarth to do mine :) Here's some pictures form our coffee and the photo shoot's behind the scenes ;)

 Ah, I had too... This shows our awful awful manners in public places! Don't think anyone noticed...

 

At the beach, sitting behind a stone wall for wind and rain shelter having a lil fag break and warming up!

 

I think the most eventful day this week for me has been Monday. I've had quite a lot of time off work so thought I should finally get myself together and do a photo shoot! Me and Alex met up around 3pm in the afternoon and started shooting in fields near her home and then got a bus to Penarth pier and did the rest of the shoot on the rocky beach. The weather was literally horrid, really windy and cold and was raining all afternoon! So I'm quite please with what we came out with!

After we finished shooting, we went to a chippy nearby Joe's house and got lots of food! I was sooo hungry by this point, not having eaten anything since Saturday I thought I could manage to eat a whole van! On our way to Joe's we met Dan so all walked up there together. It was Inferno Ortum's
(Ewan's band) first demo celebration down Joes so the whole band was there and couple of other mates. So we stayed there for a while, drank and smoked some and then me and Ewan went to his house for a little.  I left around 11ish because I needed to be up early on Tuesday as me and dad were going to cycle down Caerphilly which is like 20 miles!

 

On Tuesday me and my dad left the house early around 9am to cycle the taff trail! It was really refreshing to do something different. The sun was out and we had a great father-daughter time, considering we really don't get on so well usually. We stopped every here and there for coffee and fag breaks too.

We made lunch at home, ate and then went and bought me a laptop! I finally have one to store my photos on and edit, and listen to music. God I didn't appreciate my laptop before it broke haha! It's a beautiful, dark purple baby.
Anyway have a nice evening, I'm going to dye my hair now.
Cherry x
 

worms on strings

It's late summer. 24th of July! I wonder how's the time passed so quickly and I have not moved an inch. Life seems to be running but I'm just here. I guess that sounds weird but that's how I feel. Everything is slow and fast at the same time, and I feel like I'm growing up too fast.
I'm sitting in my bed with a book ('Go Ask Alice' 1971 by Anonymous) chewing on tic tac fresh mint in the light of twilight. I don't even bother turning up the lights because I like it when I sit in my bed for ages reading and without ever realising it's pitch dark outside, and then when I finally turn the lights back on I'm astonished how I've managed to read in such circumstances. 
I haven't been writing much, not because much hasn't been happening, but because I haven't had that writing spirit recently. However now it's extremely high, which is why I'd like to use  lots of sophisticated and grown up words haha. Erm... The book I'm reading is really sad and eye opening, and I'm almost finished with it. But because it's so good, I don't want to finish it. It's actually a biography so the ending isn't cliché at all. In fact the girl who wrote it died 3 weeks after finishing it.
Yesterday I went to Penarth with Josey and Rhianned, and we went charity store shopping. We found lots of awesome things and I wanted to get loads but unfortunately I only bought one t-shirt (£3.50) because apparently I only had a fiver on my credit card. Josey got lots of cheap, lovely things though. We got ourselves icy coffee drinks from starbucks and went to the Penarth pier. On our way there (which by the way is extremely close to the town!) we walked through Alexandria park. It was so magical there haha, like butterflies and little dark paths and very quiet and eerie. We sat down on this broken bench and talked for ages about stuff. The beach was great, really nice.I mean the water wasn't blue or anything but it was just genuinely nice. The blue sky and children running around with ice creams. Afterwards we got a bus back to Cardiff and went to Bute park, where we met up with a couple of people. It was really nice and chilled. Then other people started arriving, drunks and potheads, and the conversations got better. Later on people got alcohol but I didn't have any money, and I felt kind of down (not because I didn't have money ofc) and Lewis threw a bottle at my head and I started tearing! Imagine, how embarrassing. I'm a little softie. Anyhow obviously not because of the pain but because of something else.  Maybe it's my parents? Or my family? I don't know. I guess things aren't going exactly perfect but I think we have all silently agreed to ignore it. I guess I can say this because most of my views are from America and I'm assuming not many people read this.  BOOH. Anyhow, right, around 10pm we were leaving and the park was locked! So we had to climb this gate which was fun. We sang songs, and I listened to drunk Josie tell everyone she loves them, soo funny : D
Today I woke up early downstairs on the massive sofa all by myself, and the weather outside was amazing! It was 8am, and I had to get up and get ready for work.I had a ciggie, coffee and I read my book on the bus. Mc Donalds gave me a 45 min break after the first hour and half, which I didn't want but I guess my feet didn't really mind. So I changed, got my bag, grabbed a smoothie and went to the grass patch by the Castle. It was the best break I've ever had. I lied on my back in the sun, reading glorious book and listening to music, drinking the best smoothie ever and smoking a cigarette. It was over tooo soon. This goth guy in work really hates me! He thinks I don't know shit about mc donalds because I keep mixing up what's in what sandwich ( you know like whether a filet o fish has lettuce or not, or weather there are pickles in a quarter pounder). So basically thinks I'm dumb shit. I've never liked mc donalds very much and I most definitely have not had all their foods. Bleh.
Anyhoooo, I've got work tomorrow till 10pm! And then the next day, it's the same thing. Ugh, on the sunniest days of the year when people are having bbq's beach days and boat rides and picnics. I'm not kidding they're doing this all during these three days in which I happen to have work. 
I'm going cinema with Peter tomorrow, so see ya.
p.s it's pitch dark outside!