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!! :) 

FB: https://www.facebook.com/laurenaquilinamusic
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/laurenaquilina
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/LaurenAquilinaMusic
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. :)

By the way... if you like this blog, you might wanna check out my other one about music... 'Music In Time'... 

BLOG: musicintimeblog.blogspot.com

FB: www.facebook.com/MusicInTimeBlog

Twitter: @musicintimeblog

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. :)

30th June 2013: i should probably start typing now.

 Monday 24th June: button moon and a new camera...

Didn't do much Monday, went to sixth form, had an alright day, came home, opened a parcel (which was my new camera!) Then managed to stay awake til dinner then fell asleep for a few hours...

Tuesday 25th June: House Athletics: 3rd!

Tuesday saw Tudor come third in house athletics, which for our house was an achievement! I then came home, sorted out my 'Music In Time Blog' and got frustrated as it still doesn't look professional cos of fonts and spaces, but oh well!!

 Wednesday 26th June: 'three little birds'

A psychology trip and a cricket match was cancelled on Wednesday, meaning I didn't actually have to go in... As soon as I got in I was asleep again, I literally woke up for dinner and that was it, 20 mins, then I was asleep again for the night.

Thursday 27th June: a few more tiring and pointless hours.

After a pretty boring day in the sixth form block (apart from a strawberry fight in the common room...) A few of us went to do a few hours as sports leaders... This was pointless and included us standing watching others lead and run the activities, we were just making sure there werer no unruly kids... There was me thinking that was what all the teachers were doing there?

Friday 28th June: burned my thumb, now off to see After Earth.

Burned my thumb after getting chesse straws out the oven at club :( Still, I went to see After Earth (the film with Will and Jaden Smith) and I thought it was pretty good. Reminded me of a cross between Avatar and Hunger Games, don't even know why, but it did!

Saturday 29th June: more hay fever, horses and minibeasts.

I went to watch my sister ride a horse yesterday, and she's pretty good at it! I took lots of photos, and I also took lots of photos of bees, ladybirds and butterflies... However my SD card played up, yet again! Meaning, I lost them all :( Still, apart from that had a kinda chilled day and then went babysitting in the evening :)

Sunday 30th June: i should probably start typing now.

Today, I've tried to do some PE work, and got nowhere, so I gave up. I then went to a music thing in the park for a bit, until my hay fever got so bad and I got too hot, that I decided it was best I went home, I then sorted my room out a bit and then sat thinking about this longer than what I should have... So, took me longer to get started...


Things I have learnt this week: 
 - Make sure the anti-histamine I'm taking is non-drowsy, especially when you're feeling ill anyways...
 - Make sure I get a new SD card ASAP!

Lots of links below Music of the Week by the way (that are all worth checking out!)

Music of the Week 

Mozart's House - Clean Bandits:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd0cT7Dnpt8

Resolution - Matt Corby: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj4q4rfDcNw

Ratchet - Bloc Party (explicit - sorry!): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3EEaPj-5qs

Links for the Week

Wolf Choir (3 guys from my sixth form, all are insane on the music side of things, they hope to be releasing an EP before the end of July, so keep your eyes and ears open...) 

'Dilute' on Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/wolf-choir/dilute 
 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wolfchoirmusic

#SinnersEP Lauren Aquilina is returning with her second EP 'Sinners', I can gurantee it'll be a good 'un. It's available to pre-order tonight at midnight... Alongside the music video on her YouTube channel... If you wanna countdown the last half hour with her and her fans you can also watch her live on YouTube (i think? the link will be on her FB page...)

FB: https://www.facebook.com/laurenaquilinamusic
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/LaurenAquilinaMusic

#LondonEyeEP Frank Hamilton is releasing a video on the LondonEyeEP website 1st July from when he recorded 4 songs on one trip around the London Eye... Pretty impressive? I think so!! He also does a blog and stuff, he's a lovely guy, and you should go check his stuff out!! :)

LondonEyeEP Website: http://londoneyeep.co.uk/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/frankhamiltonuk

Music In Time Blog Ok, so this is my new project... The first feature is up, and even though (annoyingly) it looks awful, the content is there and hopefully the next one will have spaces and the right font :)

Blog: http://musicintimeblog.blogspot.co.uk/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/MusicInTimeBlog

I think that's it!

Thanks - evan. :)

23rd June 2013: mission caterpillar.

An interesting week. Tiring but pretty insane! Pretty much did something every day (which makes a change!)

Monday 17th June: falling asleep in the common room. 

I went to see my sister and her school in a music festival/concert thing, and of course I enjoyed every second of it, I even sang along to a few of the songs... However, it annoys me that there were kids under the age of 10 craving attention, moving to the middle of the stage, at the back (to make sure they stuck out like a Harry Potter fanatic at a Star Trek convention) continuing to move 3 schools away from their own and then start messing around. They could have at least had the decency to learn the words...

Tuesday 18th June: 'sit out for a second and rethink the situation'.

After being at sixth form for the day and getting quite worked up about having to look at uni's and courses and other rubbish (my current opinion of it all) I went home and ended up going for a cycle to watch the sun set, ended up seeing 2 deer, lots of bats flying around and listening to the birds, it was really refreshing and nice to just chill and being in the middle of nowhere. 

Wednesday 19th June: applied for my provisional license & off to a gig.

 

Time at sixth form, had 3 hours at home in between, applied for my provisional (keep off the roads :P) then fell asleep and may have been a bit late back into school... Then in the evening I took my Mum to a gig... It was Lewis Watson's tour, with Frank Hamilton and Shannon Saunders supporting. It was one of the most surreal nights ever, I helped Frank and Andy (his manager) quite a bit, did some flyering and the mailing list, got some merch and hugs and photos... Lewis was insane, I haven't seen him live before so it was great to see him and meet him and hear him somewhere other than my headphones! 

Frank was insane as always, nuff said. 

Shannon was amazing! I loved her song 'Heart of Blue' before I went but then when she performed it live I loved it even more, and the covers she did... Awesome! Just gutted I didn't get to meet her before she went! 

#TeamFrank

 

  Thursday 20th June: long words, long day and a cricket match.

Another day at sixth form and a cricket match for the boys that I'm helping to coach, they lost (badly) but considering the school they played puts a lot more money and time into their sports, it wasn't THAT bad a defeat...

Friday 21st June: socialising for once. 

Friday, was a longg day, sixth form, then the youth club I help out at (which was low on leaders), then after changing my mind multiple times, I decided to go to my friends party, there were funny parts of the night, like being offered multiple bread rolls by a certain person... and another persons 'Guide to Dancing'... Still, I came home, had a hot chocolate and then went to bed. 

Saturday 22nd June: stormy sky and rough seas.

 

I woke up, eyes streaming and a million sneezes later, I make it to the kitchen to sort out my hay-fever (which has been an absolute nightmare this week!) My sister comes back from horse-riding (which apparently she's a natural at!) Then I sorted my iPod out, and we were off for 2 days and a night to the coast. The weather wasn't great, bit too windy, meaning it was freezing (but I don't think it helped I'm still ill) Still, I survived and watched a programme about cats and then watched The Voice... wanted Leah to win, and let's be fair she should have won, Angela was great and stuff but even her parents looked shocked...

Sunday 23rd June: mission caterpillar.

Less windy today, did some gardening (funny enough, in the garden!) Had an eventful trip to the dump... The bags of cut down 'plants' seemed to be the home of a bunch full of caterpillars... Anyone that knows me will know that I have an almighty (see what I did there?! ;)) phobia of caterpillars... So my sister breaking down in tears and me being the brave person that I am ended up sitting in the back, sweating and hyperventilating over these flipping things... Anyway, on the way home we saw this and I thought it was insane, I'm a major fan of graffitti/street art style stuff and it was by a burned down and derelict garage which had unfortunately turned into a dump... But I thought it was pretty awesome, so major credit to whoever did it! It sort of sparked a question, should it be a crime to share your art like this? Personally, I think so long as it's appropriate for the place it's in (and it's good), it deserves to be shown... 

Music of the Week!

The first one because of the gig on Wednesday... Loved this song anyway, but then her cover just completes it...
All I Want (cover) - Shannon Saunders: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dOCT7LjZAg

Another one, because of the gig this week (but it would have made it on here sometime anyways!) (oh and he swears, but it's an insane cover, xylophone and everything!)

Teenage Dirtbag (cover) - Frank Hamilton: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i_CvthsoTE

The next is from The Voice Final... Fell in love when it was performed, will's normal version isn't as good as with Leah, so here it is live! 

Bang Bang - Leah McFall & will.i.am: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy9iiaFuxj0

The last one is a sneak preview of the first feature for the blog 'Music In Time' (cheeky plug for another blog, but hey!) 

Monsters - Angus Powell: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy9iiaFuxj0

Other Links!

Lauren Aquilina is announcing info on her 2nd EP tonight (Sunday 23rd) at 8pm... It's also her 18th birthday! So go give her a like/follow, say happy birthday and stay tuned for her announcement!! 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/laurenaquilinamusic

Twitter: www.twitter.com/laurenaquilina

Lastly, 'Music In Time' was launched last week... 'a blog that brings talented musicians to your eyes and ears...' The first feature is on Tuesday 25th June... There are already opportunities for you to ask artists questions and competitions will be coming soon... So go like the page/follow on twitter/go read the blog!! 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MusicInTimeBlog

Twitter: https://twitter.com/musicintimeblog

Blog: www.musicintimeblog.blogspot.com

Thank You!

evan. :)