Holiday Week! {October Blogging Challenge Day 2#}

New scarf :p

It's Tuesday... blog day! This week I have the week off work, so today's blog is particularly fun and image-packed :0

Saturday was boring.. so I'll skip it and go straight to Sunday! Sunday was the harvest service at church so everyone had to bring food for the foodbank. Harvest isn't a religious holiday as such but is almost like a 'Thanksgiving-y' type affair. I looked it up on Wikipedia and apparently its a British thing dating back to early Christians, where everyone would have a big feast in the village with everyone's successful produce. In the modern tradition, everyone makes or buys food for those who have less than they do and then sings songs about gratitude and nature and stuff. It's usually alot of fun, and has great aesthetics. Read more here... This years harvest festival was my first in a new church - and also first in a long time lol so I had a good time reliving good childhood memories associated with it. However, it was pretty busy and I think I was just feeling a bit anxious anyway, so at the end I was fully socially exhausted.. (っ- ‸ - ς) ᶻz

On Monday, I went to the cinema to watch the film Brides. The premise is that these two girls are running away to Syria to become ISIS brides. So I knew going in it was gonna be a sad watch. 

 

Spoooky cinema...

 

The theater was basically empty which was cool and the film was really great. Defo not an easy watch but way more light-hearted than I expected. The writing makes you root for the girls so much you almost forget why they are there in the first place. Highly recommend. 

 Today (Tuesday) I took a trip to Oxford, home to the notoriously fancy and very beautiful university. I hadn't been before but my mum helped me plan where to go as she has been before. ^.^ The train journey was very chill and I listened to The Everglow by Mae. Oxford is very pretty to walk around as the architecture is soo pretty! All the university buildings are amazing looking and soo ornate.. I can't imagine studying there...

 They also had a cute market - which is always one of my favourite things in British towns. What can I say we just love to trade things! 

  

After walking around various churches and historic streets I decided to make a pilgramage to a vegetarian cafe I found on google maps. The walk was long.. and treacharous.. and I was soo hungry... but I made it yay! The food was all homemade and looked so good, so it was def a worthwhile trek.

 

 Beetroot salad, roasted chickpeas, courgette salad with mint and a curry vegetable pie... my dream meal..

 

They also had amazing looking cakes but I was already full.. maybe next time Magic Cafe Oxford..

 

Oxford was the home of Lewis Carroll, author of Alice In Wonderland and so there's a cute shop called Alice's Shop that sells themed items. I got a very cute keychain (photo at the end). At this point my phone was dying so I turned it off to preserve battery and used signposts and intution to navigate around. This meant I got lost a few times.. lol. I found my way to the Ashmolean Museum, which is an arts museum and also totally what the museum in the game, Mystery of The Druids is based on (I only figured this out AFTER I had gone home and had been convincing myself that it was another building) 

 

Museum from Mystery of The Druids - not at all similar to the one below LOL even though I really thought they were the same...

 

NOT the Ashmolean museum but the Natural History museum instead.. maybe i'll go inside next time

Anyway, the museum had some great art and was very relaxing! Here are photos of my favourite paintings.

Convent Thoughts - Charles Allston Collins

 Home from the sea [Mother's grave] - Arthur Hughes

After doing some more shopping and looking around I went home. For my train journey I got a smoothie as a treat but I def made the wrong decision getting one with blackberry in it because the seeds were very.. crunchy.. 

Here are the things I bought: 

 

New Testament Bible, postcard of New York, Alice In Wonderland keychain and oil pastels 

 

The New Testament Bible I got in a second-hand book shop. I didn't really intend on buying another Bible but when I opened it I found all these things inside - so I couldn't resist LOL. btw I realise this is the second time I have mentioned Christianity in just one blog post.. this is not going to become a Christian-blogger situation don't worry!!!!

Cool af tapestry book mark

 

There were more pictures than these - some dated 1950! The book smells very old and damp.. I don't think anyone else had opened it in a looong time.

The oil-pastels were just so cute, I couldn't resist. Hopefully I'll try them out tomorrow! ₊🖌⊹♡

 

 In regards to the challenge, this week I have:

- not watched any YouTube

- watched 4 films since Saturday 

- Goodbye, Lenin! 

- Novitiate

- Brides

- Brother Sun, Sister Moon 

- uploaded all photos from my music pages from imgur

- i have fixed my disk-man (needed new batteries LOL), so more CD listening is happening!

I would say the challenge is successful so far! Yay! (^__^) 

 

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October Blogging Challenge: Day 1!

First offical day of my blogging challenge, and I actually remembered to post! Yay!

I can report that since the start of this month I have not watched any YouTube yet, however, I have listened to music on YouTube Music - which I have decided is okay. Instead of watching YouTube I have... watched a couple episodes of The Office, read a couple chapters of my current book, began to fix my website and actually made some artwork! So I can report that it has been successful so far :-)

The art work in question is something I came up with as I was practising my calligraphy. However, the actual calligraphy part of it is really messy - lol! I don't mind it so much though.

 

 

The magpie drawing is really inspired by the cover of La Dispute's album, Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair. The text on the image is a couple lines from the poem somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond by E.E Cummings, the band references the poem alot in the album so I though it was a good fit. I love it when lyrics reference poetry - yay! The photo is really ass sorry but I'm considering redrawing it anyway...

 

Today I got some awesome clothes from my volunteering job at a charity shop. I have a week off work next week so I'm looking forward to wearing them ^-^

 

 

 

This blouse is meant for hiking I think but the colour is so cute I had to get it! I have a weakness for short sleeved blouses...

 

 This polka dot skirt is really light and layered. I gave away all my polka dot stuff a while ago and I miss it, so I was happy to find this! It's a little big but that's what safety pins are for :p

 I also got a new scarf earlier in the week but I'll include a pick in a later post. I feel like it's very Pam from The Office, which is totally my look these days haha.. 

This weekend is normal for me - work.. bleh.. Im looking forward to Sunday though, because we are having a harvest service at church which is usually fun - I need to remember to bring things for the foodbank collection though.. hopefully I don't forget !!!!

 Hope everyone has a good weekend ^-^

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