Linkography #12

 

a couple of weeks in pictures…

     

American Football // new butter for baking, havent tried it yet! // face mask! // this is hanging subtly in my local tescos.

    

Patriotic // this is not how to spell Acetone, I probably shouldn't trust these people with my nails // mojito from a can // first step in the sea!

   

Perfect ‘atmospheric’ picture / suits on the beach? / PIMMS on the beach!

 

Panoramic Brighton (crappy i phone app) from 6 floors up

  

My friend Seb Blake (link to his you tube)/ Bridesmaid Emily / James & Seb jammin on the beach

Linky Dinks

A perfect collection of Nail Polish, sorted by colour!  // Would any of your Ex partners do this? // 110 years ago in Brighton…  // I kind of want to try and make these // This post on ‘how to pose like a fashion blogger’ by Stu is AWESOME.

In which I victoriously drink tea

 

Last week I got a lovely email telling me all about Victory Tea, a product which is sold online only (so no overheads and cheaper for the buyer/drinker!) in fact this quote from Sarah who runs the company says it all :

The ‘Primarni of the tea world’ Victory Tea is a designer teabag with a High Street price tag.

Can you tell she has a background in fashion? This is evidently on show with the BEA-utifully designed packaging & website.

“Each handy foil-wrapped sachets contains 40 teabags. A Superior Box for £16 (inc p&p) contains 16 sachets and a Victorious Box for £30 (inc p&p) contains 40 sachets. That’s a lot of teabags for your money. 640 in the Superior Box and 1,600 in the Victorious Box to be precise“

You can order a trial pack here for £1.50 (free P&P) which has 16 teabags in (foil wrapped in 8’s for freshness) to try it for yourself!

Now on to the actual flavour of the tea, its strong, which I like, and tastes just  as amazing black if that’s your cup of tea! (haha, see what I did there?) as it does with a drop of milk!

If you’re still convinced by ordering tea and having it delivered right to your door, there is a calculator in the ‘nice stuff’ part of the website that shows you the savings you can make!

 

Above are some snaps of the pretty packaging, and writing this post reminded me of a conversation (slash argument) I had with a few people when I was working as a chef in a BOILING hot kitchen one summer, when someone said it was too hot to drink tea and someone else retaliated with “oh no it isn't! it helps to cool you down!” so I googled it, and found arguments for and against so i’ll let you make your mind up! I drink tea whatever the weather…

*I wrote this post myself, but the tea was sent to me for free to try!

In which I DO go to the beach!

Unless you’ve been living under a rock you will have noticed that it got a bit hotter. The glory of Brighton is that it has a beach about a 5 minute walk away from work/myhouse/anything else in Brighton (we’re a compact city you know!) So for the last two days after work that is where I’ve been. Give it a few weeks and i’ll be bored of it (well, of the language school students and suchlike that over run in when it gets REALLY warm) but for now, here are some pictures (Olympus e520) from the last couple of days.

 

 

 

This crazy skirted/female swim suited guy came to tell us the sons of Zion were coming, he also talked about genitals.

 

This dude is renowned for dancing to whatever beat he can find. There was a live band playing, so he was dancing! Funnily enough I went to a photography exhibition celebrating Brighton the next day, he was there AND a picture of him. He talked nonsense at us though so I think his brain is addled.

   

Sam and his 2 friends swimming out to the farthest buoys… the water was freezing!

And something you didn't know about me: two years ago I swam all the way round the remains of the west pier. against the tide daftly, it took us forever, I was completely knackered, I cut my foot on a submerged piece of barnacled something or other BUT it remains one of my favourite mini-achievements! Don't do it kids, the lifeguards frown upon it! I kind of want to do it again this year though…

Nice weekend plans for all I hope, I have been invited to meet Lloyd Grossman at the Foodie Festival on Saturday, which will be amazing. If you’ve got any burning questions for him leave them below as there is Q&A session. Also I found out yesterday that one of Sams friends will be playing on the live music stage too, and one of my bridesmaids Emily is going, with a friend from school, so that all worked out pretty well! 

Quirks of Art #1

 

I’ve been meaning to start this series for ages. Now to explain, I'm not ‘arty farty’ (for want of a better term) I couldn't tell you my favourite artists, or actually if I am honest tell you the last time I went to an art gallery (that's a lie, it was Feb. ‘11 in Amsterdam, the Van Goph museum, but that was kinda a ‘have to see’) BUT I know what I like, and what I like is normally modern and often graffiti. Living in Brighton means I walk past oodles of ‘quirks of art’ (good pun eh?!?!) just walking to work and back. Almost all those green connection boxes have some kind of graffiti on them, and our council ensures that blank spaces can be used (with permission) for larger works. So anyway, here is post #1 of ‘things I look the look of’

 

                                              

         

All of the above can be found in and around Brighton.

In which I am comfortable

 

Tshirt/dress thing: H&M. Cardigan: Peacocks. Leggings: Topshop shortarse

Not the most flattering of outfits, and also kind see through, however I like it and wear it lots (H&M baggy t shirt/dress, peacocks cardi). The belt is from a miss Selfridge dress, but I generally just tuck a bit of the side in to the top of my leggings so it isn't too long. I like being a slob. I also would like to point out I am genuinely NOT this short, Sam took these and is a foot higher than me so takes photos from a height.

On Saturday I met up with Sophie, and we decided against the original plan of baking (I haven't blogged a recipe/food post in too long!) as the sun was shining! We had a potter round the laines (pearl milk bubble tea!) and then a bit of the shopping centre, vaguely looking for bridesmaid dresses (navy!?) and then I remembered about a new tea shop that had opened so we pootled up there (its round the corner from Topshop) called Time for Tea, plonked ourselves on a little table in the sun and ordered awesome 'proper' tea. She had Cherry & I had 'spiced chocolate' I think it was called, whatever it was it was very very nice, not too chocolatey, but enough to detect the taste, and a tiny little hint of chilli. scrumptious, even if I did manage to wedge the lid of the teapot so it got stuck! I hope they managed to fix it!

After that Sophie headed homewards and I strolled up towards my friend Yasmins in Hove(ish) and then we walked to the seafront, had a cup of hot chocolate at the meeting place cafe, bought a book from the second hand book stall that's always opposite the old pier at weekends and then home for a catch up on the last three episodes of this seasons gossip girl (err, anti climax much!) and 2broke girls, so now I'm going to attempt to catch up on Pretty Little Liars because everything else I am watching has finished the season!

and some random drivel accompanied with pictures:

No word of a lie, Sam genuinely said ‘you could wear your hair like that for the wedding’ OH SAM, this is bed head too tangly to comb, not an actual ‘do’

Sherlock Holmes having a fat day and a pint with the man in a kilt at the pub over the road.

 

New sparkly shoes! Went for these when I couldn't decide what colour converse to get. However they eaten the back of my ankles. I actually had to walk home on my tip toes looking like a freak to ensure that they didn't actually bleed. It made me wearing heels at a work all day seem like a doddle!