Friday 12 July 2013

Summer

At last, summer is finally upon us, yay! We've had at least a solid week and a half or so of sunshine now, something I thought near on impossible just a few months or ago. However, as pleased as I am about the warm weather, my body isn't quite as happy. My pale Irish skinned self, with stupidly bad hay fever, has spent the past week looking like it's having an emotional break down (mainly in one eye...) and debating whether or not it's acceptable to bare such milk-white legs. Though, I've now decided, at the age of 24, that I'm just going to embrace my paleness and use Nicola Roberts and Dita Von Teese as my role models.

Summer fun

I always think that the summer makes you want to read more, sitting out in the garden with a good book is one of my favourite things. So with that, I've recently read The Handmaid's Tale and My Dear I Wanted To Tell You, both of which I enjoyed immensely. I've now moved on to The Wasp Factory, having never read anything by Iain Banks before I thought I should. I'm not too far in at the moment, but despite being quite removed from most of the books I usually go for, I'm finding it a really interesting read. At times it's proving to be quite shocking, but the elements of dark humour shine through. After this I might move on to something a bit more cheery.

I'm off on holiday in a few weeks and I've already scoped out a Literary Pub Crawl that takes place there. Needless to say, I'm planning on doing this. The combination of alcohol and literature, as mentioned in my previous post, is just too perfect to miss out on!

In other news, I recently treated myself to my first relatively expensive handbag, well satchel. I picked a colour that would be good all year round, there were so many pretty colours to choose from though, I found it quite hard. If I can justify getting another then I've got my sights set on a light green one.


New bag