New years resolutions. - cue cliches...

                                                            Welcome to 2015!


 New years has always been my least favourite holiday, I become "attached" to the past year and what it has brought me, however crappy, I don`t know whether it is the scary prospect of the new or me knowing that I might not make the most out of the year and I want 2014 to last longer as I wanted to do more with my time that I didn't`t....
However as is tradition I have a series of resolutions for 2015. But this years I am mixing it up by STICKING to them! I know it is a bold claim....
So here they are, you guys are free to make sure I am keeping up with them because I will need your help!

1. KEEP blogging, I am going to become so much more organised with my life especially blogging to make this little corner of the internet the best I can make it.

2. be NICER to people e.g. limit the bitching ( we all do it....) I feel like if I work at this one I will a) become a nicer person and b) it will just make the world a little bit better.... hopefully....

3. ACTIVE, this year I am going to try and get up and go... do more exercise, meet more people, try new things... all very exciting.

4. Inject some CONFIDENCE into your life. I am going to try and accept myself and be confident in who I am and what I want to be and not be afraid of telling people this is who I am.

5. WORK HARD. A-levels this year and only two more years left of school so I really need to buck up and get my skates on...

6. SAVE, save, save.... I need start being frugal with my money and keep it for big things rather than lots of little spending... remember focus on the big things I want... like travel and a new laptop and film for my camera rather than sweets.

I know six resolutions is ambitious but there are 12 months in a year so if I get it wrong once I can try again one month at a time. I really want to keep these and hopefully I will, who knows what 2015 will bring, I just know I am going to keep on blogging!

Work hard and read a book

Love,

Lady of the Rivers x

Girl offline going back online

Hey Guys,


Sorry for not being on for a loooonng time.... Things have been crazy here!

Today I want to review a book I recently read called "Girl Online." I was sceptical about this especially after hearing the rumours about Zoe and ghost writing. However I was pleasantly surprised.

The book is about a girl called Penny Porter and how she runs a blog called Girl Online and is big on photography, one day she goes to New York and finds a boy called Noah, they fall in love. However both characters have secrets that are slowly revelled to the world...
Zoe`s writing is very easy to read as I started this as a late night read at 11pm (expecting to read like two chapters then sleep) but I was up till 1am in the morning hooked on this book.
If you want an easy read and literally a massive hug in a book then read this one. It is a really fab pick me up.

Well Done Zoe!

Love, 

Lady of the Rivers x

The Tudors

Hey Guys,


This post was sort of inevitable. It is about a historical, royal,  English family called the Tudors.
This period of history has shaped my life so dramatically without it I would just be lost.
It all started when I was nine. Discovering the Tudors in my local primary school one brilliant history lesson. After studying for the term I stated to fall slowly in love with it. Then after engulfing all of the lady grace mystery novels ( a young children`s fiction about a girl at Elizabeth the 1st`s court who solves mysteries for her.), I started reading My Story and anything about the Tudors I could lay my hands on....
However, it had all been plain sailing so far but then something happened that caused massive waves... and a very rocky sail indeed. It was time for big school after changes to my education and family I ended up in a completely different form of education and school called a private school where I had no friends or people I knew and to top it off no Tudors were taught just 1066 and Normans. I still kept it up though, reading and visiting museums, castles and houses. It started to become my place to escape. The only thing that my new school hasn't touched and couldn't ruin. I hated my new school so much and the Tudors and Elizabethans gave me a respite. it became this weird sort of secret I had that I could focus on like how some use YouTube or books or TV shows. I used the Tudors. However because my school was a bit weird in year nine I moved to a separate building with new teachers and loads of new people arrived because it was the "senior" part of the school. We ended up doing the Tudors for a whole term. My teacher discovered I knew more and encouraged me to participate more in class and gave me books and DVDs to watch. (I was crushed the year after when he left, At GCSE level we didn`t study them at all it was all modern). It was then I started finding out about historians such as Lucy Worsley and Suzannah Lipscomb. I feel in love all over again with this period as I discovered I could make a job out of my love for it and life started to get better I had better friends and the school was  a little bit nicer. Tudors were now my second family and still are. ( I know I know cheesy and disgusting) I am now bolder at telling people about it and has given me a goal in my life. I now go to various talks about it and taking the subject at A-Levels and planning to do it in the future.

Do you guys have anything like this in your life and if so let me know 

Enjoy life, work hard and read a book

Love, 

Lady of the Rivers

Back to school... Panic...

Hey Guys,

I`ve got those back to school blues... summer has long gone and I've now been back at school for 3 weeks and literally I forgot how pressuring and academically this school takes its studies and grades

 I got ok GCSE grades but in school standards I should just fade into the background.
For an extra project I have to do I have been researching the lives of those who used to go to my school and literally in my school if you don't earn a prize, or be dramatic or musical or anything like that you just don't get mentioned or remembered.  I feel like that is me. One day I will leave and no one will remember me or the fact I tippexed a massive heart under one of the English desks or redid my essays to improve my effort to make my parents happy. And I don`t know if that it is a good or bad thing. I will just be a number on a list or a name on a paper. And that scares me. A lot. Like if I never do something massive with my life will I ever be remembered by anyone.

Sorry for that deep Tuesday. Have to get you guys to wear a snorkel next time. 

Love 

Lady of the rivers x

CHRISTMAS...TOO SOON?

Hey Guys,

Guess what it is nearly time for. CHRISTMAS.... I know, I know there are still MONTHS to go but some how just the thought we are much, much closer to Christmas than we are away makes me deliriously happy...

 I am OBSESSED with Christmas. I'm in my element. I love it because there us just so much joy and it makes me feel loved and happy. My whole family will surround me and everyone will be giving a receiving. I don`t know if any of you have felt like summer is just so stifling and way to hot (especially for me who burns and sweats the moment I set outside in summer... not even to mention the wasps... or bugs....) So yeah, coming to the end of summer and to keep my sprits up about going back to school I am going to focus on Christmas.

After all it is the most wonderful time of the year

Love,

Lady of the Rivers x

SITC and a new start

You may or may not have noticed the name of my blog has changed.
WELL COME TO A FRESH START. This is because of a little time I spent in a place called Summer In The City this is a London YouTube gathering in a massive building even after queuing for ridiculously long and being to late for the Dan and Phil line... security men are actually very scary when you try and break their rules it was still amazing. I saw doodleoddle preform on stage, MET yes I repeat MET Jack and Dean... but it was not quite the amazing meeting I was hoping for... I will tell you guys what I " Queen of embarrassment" did in good time... I saw SprinkleofGlitter do her "show" which was insane. Also just walking around stalls and merch sales was amazing I really wished I had taken more pictures and been more confident with you I want to say hi to like Tim H and Will Derbyshire and Zoella all walked passed but it looked like they were all in a rush and to be honest i was nervous. Ach well always next year. To be in a room where there were so many clever and creative people, it made me want to improve myself! Hence the facelift to my blog. I hope you guys like it and any improvements that you put forward can be carried out any how.

Work hard and read a book,

Love,

Lady of the Rivers x

Hampton Court Palace

Hey Guys,
A history post for you today as today was the day in summer I get to choose wherever I want to go so I chose a place called " Hampton Court Palace"
Hampton Court Palace is a English palace on the outskirts of London, it was commissioned by a Tudor high up in the king`s favour called Thomas Worsley ( Cardinal for those who want to be specific). He created a grand palace which unfortunately was a bit too grand and tongues started to wag that his palace was so much better than any the king created. in the end the king, Henry VIII, took over.

This is my one favourite places to go, when there's no crowds and it is just you and the history, it really is special. The reason I love Hampton court so much is the deep Tudor connection I feel very connected to the palace and because Henry ( the 8th you know had six wives remembered for being fat...), Edward (his son, ruled for a short time, very stanchly protestant), Mary (might know her as Bloody Mary had a short reign that was mainly consisted of burning those against her e.g. protestants.) and Elizabeth ( Virgin Queen, Armada...) all stayed here I feel like it is everyone I respect in one place. However when we went there was a Georgian thing on because it was anniversary of George the 1st coming to throne. First of many Georges but the Georgian period directly relates to George 1, George 2, George 3 and you`ve guessed it George 4. It took place in the gardens which was filled with cool and interesting little stands all relating to a different part of the Georgian life at Hampton Court, I listened to a man who did a 4 minute speech on the WHOLE history of parliament from 1066 to 1700. it was amazing. After a quick gander into the shop where I started wanting to buy EVERYTHING in there. I ended up getting the coolest mug ever! It is black and has pictures of Henry and his six wives across it. but when you pour a hot drink in the disappear one by one. it is one of those little things that just make me chuckle.

Work hard, go outside and read a book,

Love,

Lady of the Rivers x