One year Anniversary

Ello ello ello.

Wow. Exactly one year ago I left Sydney for my overseas travels. Its hard to believe that it has actually been that long. In some ways it feels a-lot longer because so much has happened, but on the other hand it feels like just yesterday I was boarding that plane, waving goodbye to you all. And now this blog is a year old!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CORINNE'S SOMETHING SOMETHING!!!

I've just got back from a road trip with my Aunty Marg and Uncle Geoff and Janelle. We had a GREAT time! So a big thankyou and hello to my aunty and uncle who made it all possible. Safe trip home!

I took the overnight bus from London to Glasgow which wasn't too bad really as overnight buses go, and met up with everyone on Saturday morning. That day we visited the Falkirk wheel, an engineering wonder which took out the need of some locks in the canals near Stirling. After that we went and visited Stirling castle which was lovely. I love little Stirling, such a nice place, and where my Grandfather grew up and his family live now. I had a go at a little braveheart action (see picture).

We checked out Gretna Green just on the border of scotland and england where back in the day lots of english kiddies under 16 could go and get married. I'd never heard of the place but im assured it's quite famous to the older generations =)

We stayed in lovely little Penrith. Nothing like the Sydney kind by the way. From there we had a look arond the amazingly beautiful lake district and the famous lake windemere. Think amazing winding green hills, sheep dotted here and there, quaint little towns.

We visited and walked on Hadrian's wall, built by the Romans back in the day It was a wall that went from coast to coast in Northern England to keep all the 'blue faced heathens' in Scotland out of the extent of the Roman Empire. A lot of it is still standing today amazingly and we got to walk on it!

We also saw Long Meg and her 12 daughters, a kind of mini Stone henge which was quite interesting. We dropped into Beatrix Potter's house where a she wrote and based a lot of her stories. The vegetable garden was gorgeous! But no Peter Rabbit to be seen....

On our last day we also stayed in Haworth, where the Bronte Sisters lived in the parsonage. Checked out their place and the creepy graveyard and surrounding moors. Very dark indeed!

Lastly on our may back to london we visted Pemberley (any Jane Austen fans out there?) and Limehall where they shot the BBC's production of Pride and Predjudice. We also took a pilgrimage to the lake where Mr. Darcy dives in and surfaces looking rather wet and appealing.....

A great trip all in all!!! I'm off to Hamburg tomorrow to hang out with Anna for a couple of days so that'll be very nice. Looking forward to it!

Corinne's Second Debut....Wait that doesn't work

Hello all!

Bit has happened since I wrote last! As you can see from the pictures above I had another go singing at an open mic nite. And about time too!! Anyway it was fun and went well, everybody liked me (yay!) and we all had a jam after. Good times.

Last week I got to go to the set of Harry Potter: Order of the Phoenix as Jess was doing a voice over and I had the little uns. I saw Privet Drive where Harry lives. So cool. No sign of Harry though.

Caught up with my Uncle Geoff and Aunty Marg who are visiting which was nice. Hung out with Janelle as well and we all went and saw Confetti again. Twas good the second time as well!

Oh yeah...also I'm finishing work sooner than I thought. Ill be finishing the end of June now - long story. Anyway so I'm doing extra babysitting an saving my little bottom off so hopefully I wont have to find any extra work before setting of in July. We'll see...

Heading to the Lakes Distict soon and then Hamburg to visit lovely anna. Looking forward to it!!

Ciao Ciao xoxo

Slimelight

Howdy

Well the last week has been quite eventful. Jess had the premier of the movie she's starring in called Confetti. She did loads of press as well last week so it was rather busy for me looking after the little chickadees.

Janelle and I went and saw Confetti on Friday night. Its actually really funny and touching - a brilliant film. I definitely reccomend it. It comes out July in Australia. Jess is the one in the musical couple. You'll understand when you see it =)

Saturday night I went out for my friend Natasha's birthday. We went out to a club called Slimelight which is this underground gothic/punk club. It was so great. We dressed up a bit (see picture above) but we were nothing compared to some of the people there. Think tight black pleather pants, huge mohawks, long fluro green dreds. It was fabulous. Had an excellent time boogying the night away.

Had a planning session with my travel buddy Penny. We had to cut down our list of like 13 countries - but if all goes well this July we will be heading to:

Ireland
Greece
Italy
Spain
Portugal
Austria
Croatia
Poland
Germany

Yeah...cut it down loads. Hey we have 2 months!!!!! Plenty of time......

Ciao for now xoxo

Bita Blues

Hi there

How's it going guys? Still enjoying 30 degree days and 5 ft swell? Damn you all!!

Spring is definitely here which is nice. The trees all got their leaves back and ther are gorgeous flowers everywhere. We walked into the park the other day and it smelt so nice...like freedom. Hard to explain. But i've never appreciated spring more!

Been going out quite a bit here which is nice. Friday night went to an 80s party which was good fun (see photos). Everyone likes a good dress up and the 80s dress up is definitely one of the ultimate! Saturday night met up with a friend from Egypt and went out for some dancing which is always fun. Last night headed to the jazz bar up the road and had a lovely dinner and listended to some great jazz/blues from an aussie singer actually (dont think shes particularly famous) so that was lovely. Was missing my jazz!!

Anyway thats bout it guys. For all of you in the UK go and see Confetti. It comes out this week and Jess (my boss) is starring in it. Speaking of work last week I gave in my notice I guess, and I'm finishing up here on the 21 July. Yay! Off for more travel and then back home to see you lot =)

Until next time xoxoxo