February Favourites! - Tuesdays with Ash

Heya guys! =D

First of all, Happy March! I can't believe that February has ended already! Oh well, at least it will start getting warmer now =)

As you can see from the title, I'm doing my February favourites so let's get started!

• Favourite songs

~ 'Love Me Like You Do' by Ellie Goulding

~ 'Hold Back The River' by James Bay

~ 'Like I Can' by Sam Smith

~ 'Sugar' by Maroon 5

~ 'Hey Jude' by The Beatles

• Favourite book

~ 'The Casual Vacancy' by J. K. Rowling

• Favourite film

~ Kingsman: The Secret Service (Taron Egerton and Colin Firth OMG! <3)

• Favourite TV show

~ Blackadder Goes Forth (We've been analysing it in my English class and I'd forgotten how much I love it XD It's absolutely brilliant and hilarious!)

• Favourite food

~ Rice cakes

• Favourite Youtubers

~ nigahiga

~ Markiplier

~ Yogscast (For those who know them I met Duncan, Kim and Turps at Comic Con =D)

• Favourite items of clothing

~ My new jeggings (a black pair and a blue pair) which I got at Matalan in Chelmsford 

• Favourite animes

~ Haikyuu!!

~ Kuroko no Basket

Right, that's about it for this week. Happy Spring everyone and I hope that March is going to be an awesome month for you guys!

See you next week! 

Ash xx

February Favourites - Lollie

Hello Aliens...

This month, I'm doing my favourites again, with a few added extra categories! I hope you enjoy it!

Monthly Playlist

• Hold Back the River - James Bay
• I am The Doctor - Murray Gold
• Donatella - Lady Gaga
• Out of the Woods - Taylor Swift 
• British Soul - Daughters of Davis

Song

My favourite song this month has got to be I am The Doctor by Murray Gold. This track helps me concentrate during revision or when I'm desperately trying to complete last minute coursework. It motivates me to complete work, I think it's because it's an action song from the show and it helps me to think right, The Doctor would get it done so come on!

Films

Kingsman: The Secret Service is my favourite film this month. Why? Well - Eggsy, Eggsy, Eggsy! Basically Taron Egerton is an amazing actor and makes the whole film and then it's topped off with Colin Firth (Are all his characters called Harry?). It's really funny, the one liners are great and it's got loads of spy gadgets and secret mission, and a villain played by Samuel L Jackson... oh, and a lady with blades legs - she can literally chop someone in half.

This month I am also liking Love, Rosie which I saw for the first time last week. It's been out since October but I thinks it's a really good film. I read the book that it is based on which was originally titled 'Where Rainbows end' and I feel like the film did justify the book, however, there were a few changes and I would recommend reading the book (now titled 'Love, Rosie') before seeing the film.

Game

I have an extreme addiction to 2048+# which is basically the extended, bigger board of 2048. It's a pretty addictive game and is definitely to blame for my insomnia... I also discovered a version of 2048 which I will talk about later on in this post!
Another game I've just got back into is Habbo... I discovered they have a mobile and app and wel - that was it. I think it's great meeting new people and going through all the different rooms. Plus, I have a dog called Odin... He's sassy an won't eat food when he's told too...

Actor/Actress

- Miles Teller (Divergent, The Spectacular Now)
- Taron Egerton (Kingsman: The Secret Service)
- Still John Simm...
- Jenna Coleman (Doctor Who)
- Karen Gillan (Doctor Who, Selfie, Guardians of the Galaxy)
- Billie Piper (Doctor Who, Secret Diary of a Call Girl)

Food

Reese's pieces are the food of the gods! Why we don't have these in the UK all the time I don't know! We need them, we are so missing out... I ate a whole cinema share box to myself it was great but the peanut butter after taste.

Book 

Geek Girl: All that Glitters came out yesterday - I haven't even read it and it's coming to me on Monday and I can't wait and it's already my favourite thing. It's the 4th instalment of the Geek Girl series.

Tv Shows 

-Nowhere Boys 

- Secret Diary of a Call Girl

- Eve (CBBC)

- The Sparticle Mystery (CBBC)

- Mad Dogs (JOHN SIMM OMG)

- I Survived a Zombie Apocalypse 

Not-so-favourites

- toasted waffles

- Butter Bear from Lush

- #TheDress 

Baes of the month

- John Simm

- Miles Teller

- Theo James

- Luke Friend

- Taron Egerton

Fem February 

Ship: Clamy (Clara and Amy. Amy as The Doctor and Clara as her companion)

Women Crushes: Michelle Gomez (Missy in Doctor Who) and Faye Marsay 

Inspiring Women: Holly Smale

Awards Red Carpet - Best Dressed

Golden Globes

Woman: Dakota Johnson

Man: Eddie Redmayne

The BAFTA's

Woman: Felicity Jones and Jenna Coleman 

Man: Douglas Booth 

The Oscars

Woman: Anna Kendrick 

Man: Benedict Cumberbatch (featuring Wife Sophia) 

The Brits

Woman: Rita Ora, Little Mix, Taylor Swift and Paloma Faith 

I hope you enjoyed my favourite this month! I'll be back next week with another 'Lollie's Brain' Have a great weekend and a great week and I'll see you in the future!

UNTIL NEXT TIME, ALLONS-Y!

Lollie xxx

Valentines Day Thoughts - Saturdays with Payton

Hey!

It's Payton here, ready to share some love with you on Valentines Day! I was having a deep thinking moment about Valentines Day before writing this post and I would like to share my thoughts with you, if that's okay.

Valentines Day is usually "advertised" for none of a better word for couples, boyfriends, girlfriends, husbands, wifes etc, and describe it as spending the day with someone that you care and love about. So I thought why is it advertised as being for people in relationships but not for everyone. I mean obviously yes you would want to share the day with your boyfriend, girlfriend etc but wouldn't you also want to spend the day with your mum, dad, sister, brother, friends and other family members and people who you care about who you also have a relationship with, plus the day is described as being with someone who you love and care about.

Sorry rant over, now on with the rest of the post!

So I am going to keep in the theme of Valentines Day and I will be doing a Valentines Day tag for you all, so let's get started!

1. What is your favorite Valentines Day treat? 

Oooo, something tasty to eat like chocolate! 

2. Sweethearts or chocolate covered strawberries?

Definitely chocolate covered strawberries ftw!

3. What was your favorite Valentines day memory?

I don't have a special memory, it's really just a normal day for me spending it with my family, as sadly I do not have a boyfriend to spend it with, but that's okay at least I'm spending it with people I love!

4. What movie would you rather watch on Valentine's Day: Pretty Woman or You've Got Mail?

I actually haven't seen either Pretty Woman or You've Got Mail........Lemme google something quickly....... okay so from their plot lines I would rather watch You've Got Mail.

5. What celeb would you not mind having as your Valentine?

Ooooo, this question is a tough one, I would not mind having quite a few different celebrities as my valentine although I think that I have now made up my mind.

I would definitely not mind having Chris Hemsworth as my Valentine or Taylor Glockner or Harley Bonner.

 

6. What would you do on your perfect Valentine's date?

I haven't really thought of this to be honest with you, I think that it depends, on one hand I would love to go for a meal and to the cinema, but I think that everyone does that, but really I would love to do something that we would both enjoy together.

7. Red or pink lips on Valentines Day?

I do love red lips but I do not think that I can pull it off, but I am trying different combinations and colors but until I find the right one I will have to say pink lips.

8. What is your ideal Valentine's Day date outfit?

This would depend on what we are doing that day, I would definitely try and wear something cute no matter what, if it was a meal out then I would rock the dress and heels but if it was something else then I may wear something more casual, but I am usually indecisive with what I wear so it would be something I pull together last minute!

9. Homemade or store-bought gifts?

I love both, but I do think that homemade gifts are cute and more personal and memorable.

10. Would you wear your hair up or hair down for a date night? 

I would wear my hair down and it would probably be curled. I just hate wearing my hair up unless it is perfect.

So that is it for my Valentines Day post, I hope that you enjoyed it and I hope that you have had an awesome Valentines Day! 'Love is just love, it can never be explained'

See you next week!

~Payton <3

Motivation, Goals and Organising ~ Saturday's with Payton

Hey!

It's Payton again, and today I feel motivated and I want to share my motivation with you! "Motivated about what?" you may ask, well today I have been motivated about cleaning, tidying, and getting organised! Yes it's been 5 and a half weeks since New Year's Day 2015, and I want to ask you how have your resolutions been going? Have you stuck to them? Have they changed your life? In these first 5 and a half weeks of 2015 or 37 days, you could have broken a habit (it only takes 21 days) and you could be a few days away from completing breaking a second habit, so have you done that yet?

I want to share with you how my new years resolutions have been going on because I feel that this year I have accomplished something big in my own eyes, wait for it............. I have remembered my new years resolutions!

Now, usually I would not have remembered them for this long, however I feel that blogging about them as made them stick in my head due to them being written down, so I thank you the wonderful readers of the blog for helping me do something so small but yet so rewarding for me!

Next onto the nitty-gritty, on what I have really achieved. My resolutions were to lose some weight, tone up, eat healthily/ try new foods, be organised and be on time. That list seemed to go on for ages, and I know for certain that I haven't achieved many of them to a high standard, but baby steps will get me and you there!

Let's start with my organisation goal seeing as I have been motivated to get organised today. I feel that I achieved some of this goal and I feel really proud about it, today was the day that I cleaned, tidied and organised under my bed, the part of the room that many (it probably includes you) that you never go in your room. 

I thoroughly suggest to you that you do this! It makes you feel amazing! To stay organised buy some cheap big plastic boxes that will fit under your bed and label them so that it stays tidy under there, you will thank me in the future when you need to find something in 6 months time!

It wasn't just organising my room that I have started to do, however I have organised school folders and I have organised my time more to get more work done in free lessons at school, so my work is done not the night before it is due!

Time for my health goals, I have set many health goals for myself this year, some of them I feel like I have achieved more than others, but we all have to start from somewhere! I admit to not doing as much exercise as I like however I have hurt my knee, which is not a good thing, but hopefully it will be able to heal properly and quickly so I can do more activities again. On a happier note, my goal with eating new foods and healthy foods has been going really well. I have been trying new foods and I am starting to like them, granted that some of them are not healthy, but at least I am trying new things! My newest foods that I love are macaroni cheese ready meal and toasting waffles! On a healthier note though, I am eating more fruits and vegetables like peppers, cucumber, carrots, blueberries and healthy foods like fish especially on a weekday. 

I would like to roundup this blog post by saying that anything can be done, if you put your mind to it, small changes, can make a big difference in your life and you will feel much happier about it too! Trust me, if I have managed to stick to my goals, I know that you can too because I am the last person to achieve a goal that has been set! Comment what New Years goals that you have set, that you have stuck to or new goals in which you wish to accomplish!

See you next Saturday!

~Payton <3