28th July 2013: more flat-pack furniture...

An alright week, I guess :P

Monday, the royal baby was born... I went out on the back of my step-dads bike in the evening which was cool, we went to the sea, which was nice and chilled, we went into the sea, which for me was a change - I hate the little fish and seaweed floating around my feet, still I ended up with massive fish floating round them instead, which was a freaky experience...

Tuesday, helped sort out the house a bit (clearing out the spare bedroom). I also had a rather irritating moment when (yet again) my SD card messed up and I lost over a hundred photos... Meaning I lost photos of sunsets, the sea, and some other photos (luckily nothing TOO rare - but even so!)

Wednesday was my birthday!! I woke up really early, and when I say early, I mean I was laying in bed with my curtain open, watching the sun rise... I went and took my sister to school, then came home feeling extremely tired and then started feeling pretty nervous - and therefore ill - before having a driving lesson... Still, I went for my driving lesson, I can't steer very well at the mo, I stalled once, and a mounted a pavement... but apart from that it went well!? Then went out for dinner, and then went to see Monsters University - which is a pretty epic film tbh... oh and the royal baby boy was names... George Alexander Louis...

Thursday, sorted out a lot of emails, blogs and lots of other stuff :)

Friday I got up really late... Then played a bit of band hero with my sister, then headed to my Dad's for the weekend, had fish and chips for dinner, and opened my presents from my Dad... Then we watched the classic Danny the Champion of the World (one of the best books ever, and a loveable film too!!

Yesterday, I mainly spent the day helping to build wardrobes (unfortunately not to go to Narnia...) Had some tasty scones... Then went out for an Indian which was very tasty... My Dad decided it would be a great idea to pop those warm lemon wipe things they give you, so naturally everyone looked round... Nice one Dad :P We then spent the evening after that being nostalgic and going through songs and toys and trends from the 90s...

Today again I spent it helping to build things... If anyone needs any flat pack furniture put up, you know who to come to :P

Also this week, I have to just give a massive shoutout to Lauren Aquilina... she made it to #43 in the official chart earlier in the week, and charted tonight at #66... Proud is an understatement!! For someone who is still unsigned and has only just finished college, she's starting off pretty well, and I'm sure big things are coming for her!!

Music of the Week

Piece By Piece - Orla Gartland: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HPMgDzRD7E

(just for the nostalgia... this was number one when I was born...)
Wannabe - Spice Girls: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJLIiF15wjQ

(insanely beautiful song!!)
The Hands of Change ft. Lewis Mokler - Holly Drummond: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YDSjoiFCCw

Photos...

22nd July 2013: a royal baby, a bike ride and the sea.

23rd July 2013: another productive day, followed by losing 100 photos...

25th July 2013: big things and opportunities...

26th July 2013: getting up late and playing band hero.

27th July 2013: being British and building wardrobes.

28th July 2013: more flat-pack furniture...

Thanks for reading!
-evan. :)

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A Royal Baby Boy!

Well, first of all, Congratulations to Wills and Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge!

I think it's fair to say, most of England and many other countries too, were keeping up-to-date with the royal baby news yesterday (22nd July 2013). So when it was eventually announced, last night, that 'Her Royal Highness, the Duchess of Cambridge was safely delivered of a son at 4.24pm'. Now the rumours of who visits the couple and the new born as well as the mini Cambridge's name!

Also, I find it funny that on the official bulletin, the word 'son' was typed and yet the other details such as time and date were written... Does this mean that they knew it was to be a baby boy? Or simply, that they printed off two copies, one for each gender, to save time? However this leads me onto think that even if HRH wasn't well they'd still post "Her Royal Highness and her child are both doing well." What if they weren't, they'd have wasted a bit of a tree then, wouldn't they?!

Still, I'm sure they are both well and I'm sure they didn't know what gender the baby was... Must have come as a bit of a shock as most people were sure it was a girl... I read an article a week or so ago, that said the Queen had set the new royal's official name as 'Princess of Cambridge'... No Princess/Prince, straight out Princess... Bit weird? Then the slip up from the Duke himself, suggesting to a child that his 'little girl' would play with the toy the child had given Wills... Reporters yesterday were suggesting that the name could be Alexandra, and no male names were discussed or even mentioned?

Still, as the Duchess let slip that she would prefer a boy at a St. Patrick's Parade in March, I'm sure she's over the moon, and I'm sure William'll be pleased too!

Now, for the press to give them some space me thinks!!
 

21st July 2013: 'the fence is leaking'.

Had a more postive week, probably because it saw the end of L6 (first year of A Levels). Although it was also quite a sad week, being many of the best teachers at my school's last few days...

Still... onto the week's overview ;)

Monday was an interesting day... (To give you a bit of backgroudn info - the night before I'd been laying in bed and as I got up to get a drink of water, I sneezed, consequently pulling muscle by ribs...) So I spent my day in pain everytime I sneezed, coughed or laughed (which is what I seemed to spend most of my day doing Monday...) Still, uninteresting day apart from that, we had our headteachers leavers assembly, but it was pretty dull to what it could have been... After-school, sixth form vs year 9s cricket match, didn't go well, we lost, and I probably shouldn't have played but oh well!!

Tuesday... it officially hit too hot on the evan scale... I came home from sixth form and literally just collapsed on my bed, I couldn't move I was so hot! I must have drunk the equivalent of a swimming pool's load of water... *slight exaggeration* but I still felt like I was going to faint, so I decided to put all end of term school work on hold and sleep...

Wednesday, not much really happened, pretty boring day to be honest...

Thursday... In the morning, I was feeling pretty bad to say the least, I was nervous and was contemplating even going in to sixth form for the day... Still, I went in late, in time for the start of House Public Speaking... I'd been put up as Questioner for my House, and considering I didn't do much in House Sports and House Music, I decided I'd give it a go, we were from Tudor, we weren't expecting a win, so had nothing to lose... We had a solid speech by Jake about 'The Pressures of Being a Lad...' and we had Aram as Chair, which was amusing... I then had to question Josh (which would have been difficult on any subject...) but he chose to speak about the Go Compare adverts... Now me and speaking don't go too well, let alone public speaking, so I stood up to start questioning, I was shaking, my mouth went dry, I said countless erms and so's... BUT I won best questioner... So yeah, one thing to take from Thursday was to face a challenge, no matter what it is, or who it's against. It was a bit of a slap in the face for me I guess, I've had a bit more of a 'get on with it' attitude...

Friday was a bit of a sad day... it was my headteacher's last day, he'd workign at the school for the past 12 years, and we'd been there for half of it :( Then 3 other teachers I got on with and many others had their last day. We finished with sixth formers and teachers singing Jerusalem, which has always been a 'lump in the throat' moment for our year. Still, I did some tidying in my room when I got home and then chilled. Then came the last ever 'Friday Club' as we knew it :(

Saturday... I was up and out the door just after 7.30 (in the morning) to go food shopping... Then came home and mowed the lawn. I then helped tidy and hoover the house, then prepped some BBQ stuff... After that I had my b'day bbq thing, which was nice, few friends came and some fam. Band Hero was played, and some dodgy singing happened :P some night badminton went on, I think that's where my bruises are from? and then INTENSE twister... My arms and legs are sore today!!

Sunday, well I'm writing this at midday, before I've really done anything... I got up a lot later than yesterday... 10 o'clock... I've basically been sorting this blog out since, with distractions in between. For the rest of the day, I'm out and about, going to watch a band at the local music in the park thing, then I'm off to a party at my friends house, which should be good! :)

Next week is looking like a pretty epic week already, especially Wednesday (dunno what's happening?!)

Music Of The Week

Candle - April Keen: (skip to 50seconds if you want!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pB_IEGI6pc

Back To You - Bryce: https://soundcloud.com/bryce-drew-davidson/back-to-you

Burn - Ellie Goulding: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGyEd0aKWZE

Made In The USA - Demi Lovato: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3zdIHDTbg0

Also, a certain Lauren Aquilina is releasing her EP 'Sinners' tonight at midnight!! (So it'll be out on 22nd July!!) go check her stuff out!! :) 

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Website: http://www.laurenaquilina.co.uk


Photos...

15th July 2013: never sneeze like i sneeze...

16th July 2013: too hot to do anything.

17th July 2013: 99 days til Kenya... a week til i'm on the roads...

8th July 2013: House Public Speaking - Best Questioner!

19th July 2013: end of year. end of 'Friday Club'. end of Costy's time as headteacher!

20th July 2013: productive day followed by a b'day BBQ!

21st July 2013: 'the fence is leaking'.

Have a good week folks! Thanks for reading!
evan. :)


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14th July 2013: sun, books and the sea...

Later post today, got home from a weekend away by the sea quite late today, then got distracted by Jessie's livestream of her concert at Eden Project...
Still, here we go!

Monday, didn't really do much... Wore flip flops for the day... which I regretted after about an hour... ahah!
Tuesday, I had a full day at sixth form, and then spent 2 hours trying to upload the 'Music In Time' blog post for the week, but that didn't go up easily, so I decided to leave it for the night and do it on the Wednesday...
Wednesday saw the 2 week countdown to my birthday :D Also had a pretty pointless day in sixth form, and a very quiet evening at home, as my sister went on a residential school trip...
Thursday, was House Music, we got placed third, which obviously we were alright with, however we weren't the only ones confused by the House that won, and order of placing, but there we go! Went to the concert in the evening, and my Mum and Gran came along too, obviously it was a thoroughly enjoyable evening, and resulted in a few emotional moments for a few house captains... and a awesome moment of a few of us starting to dance and clap along to the final song and being joined by other sixth formers, to year 7s and teachers... :D (one of the limited proud moments of being a sixth former at our school...)
Friday, my sister came home, I didn't do much at sixth form and then off to Friday Club...
Saturday came, and I washed Mum's car, watched my sister do a bit of horse riding, played a bit of passenger on the ukulele, forgot many things before we then headed down to the coast for the rest of the weekend, on the way down, we stopped off to watch a fly over (from Goodwood's Festival of Speed) from the Vulcan?! It was a pretty awesome sight and sound... Then we had chilled, played some football, had a BBQ, Papa (my Granddad) made some grilled banana things (which despite me hating the texture of...) actually tasted pretty good with some ice cream and maple syrup :) Then a trip to the beach to watch the sun set, and it was massive and reddy/pink...
Then today, slow day really, went to the beach again, had a walk round, got some sea food, had another BBQ, chilled a bit more and then came home...

A good week, lovely weather and everything, but I'm gonna be a typical Brit now, it was a bit too hot at times!! Like now, as I'm writing this it's too hot and I'm dreading trying to get to sleep in it!!

Music of the Week

(One song that absolutely sums up my whole week - purely because it's popped up so much and I've had it stuck in my head cos of House Music...)

Ain't Nobody - Chaka Khan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MF_B-VfHhs

Three Little Birds - Bob Marley: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4sNi2PUiWM

Talk To Me - Lauren Aquilina: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQT_Xv-M7tk

8th July 2013: flip flops for a day...

9th July 2013: full day followed by a pointless 2 hours.

10th July 2013: 2 weeks til my b'day & a quiet house.

11th July 2013: House Music - placed third again.

12th July 2013: the sister's home!

13th July 2013: BBQ'd bananas...

14th July 2013: sun, books and the sea...

AND an extra photo of the Vulcan :) 

Thanks for reading! 

evan. :)

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7th July 2013: BBQ, badminton, bare feet and a win for murray.

Pretty good week :)

Monday, I didn't really do much, I stayed up late to help promote some specific musicians with A LOT of music that day...
Tuesday was insane, spent the day asking ex-prisoners questions and hearing about their time in and out of prison... Some stories were sad, others were funny. Changed my mind about how prisons and the justice system works...
 Wednesday, normalish day at sixth form, fell asleep as soon as I got home and then ended up staying at my gran's for the night :)
Thursday, spent my evening doing work that made no sense and not having a clue what I was doing.
Friday, busy day, sixth form, youth club and then babysitting (whilst watching tennis!)
Yesterday, chilled and cooked cottage pie with dad, which turned out to taste pretty good!
Then today, day helping people, chiling in the sun, playing badminton with the sister, wearing flip flops (which like never happens) and a BBQ. Oh and watched the WImbledon Mens' Final, nice one Murray! Well deserved, surely he's gotta be Sir Andy Murray now?

Music of the Week... 

Sinners - Lauren Aquilina: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knzu1g-S0fI

The War - Josh Record: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPWUMiWQCAQ

Biblical - Biffy Clyro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrbMNBNMksk

1st July 2013: a good day for music.

2nd July 2013: spending the day with ex-prisoners...

3rd July 2013: change of plans.

4th July 2013: spending 3 hours on work that makes no flipping sense.

5th July 2013: another change of plan.

6th July 2013: summer (maybe one day my name will be on a coke bottle :P)

7th July 2013: BBQ, badminton, bare feet and a win for murray.

evan. :)