You Make Beautiful Things Out Of The Dust

Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears. Or I suppose a lending of your eyes may be more appropriate for this forum. How has everyone's week been?  I thought this week was going to be boring with not much happening but then lots of things happened and it was good. Apart from Hugh's cat getting run over and being put down, that was a sad event. More on that later. 

I saw my lovely friend Abbie for dinner last night which was wonderful because I hadn't seen her for ages. We went to Wagamama's, oh my days, yummo. Our waiter was a bit over-friendly though, y'know when they think they're your friend and try and joke around with you or even chime in on your conversation and it's like....what is this?! Go away!
In other news, news which I alluded to mere seconds ago, I went with the olds to Bath Cats and Dogs Home to look at a replacement for the flat-cat (Is it too soon to joke? I think so. Sincere Apologies).
Anyway, we looked at cats and they were all incred and I wanted to bring them all home. I actually asked one of the people that worked there if there was a limit to the number of cats you could adopt. She just laughed. What does a cat-enthusiast have to do to be taken seriously around here?  Hugh ended up reserving two black kittens because all the grown up cats didn't like other cats and let's be honest....Pin really is something else, so kittens are really the safest route. 


With that great announcement out the way, it's on to the Great Selection.


ONE. 
We went to the fireworks last Saturday, which was SO fun! I wasn't really in the mood to go out and we decided right at the last minute to go and I found I'd forgotten how flipping great fireworks are haha. I got really into it and kept pummeling Matt in my excitement. "Matt, look! *smash, smash, smash*"  Here are some photos of our time there. They're not very good, sary. But here they are nonetheless, forcing themselves into your lives whether you like it or not. 

YES FIREWORKS, WE ARE SO READY. 

Dreadful picture of a very pleasant sight

OOOOH!

AAHHH! 

TWO.

More exciting news to share with you - my Great Mate JJ is also back from university now and living at home and not enjoying it massively, so I proffered an invitation in her direction: that she come and live with me in Malmesbury and we could be housies. She only went and flipping accepted and she's moving into Jerome's room on Sunday (oh yeah, by the way, Jerome, JJ's moving into your room). It's going to be brilliant waking up in a non-empty house and having someone to TALK to and chill out with. I'm going to make her be friends with all my Malmesbury friends and then they can love her too. Here's a picture of us together so I prove to you I'm not making her up and that we are already friends. 

See. Friends. 

THREE. 

This week has also resulted in a strange abundance of paid activity for me. HAHA that sounds bad, I should elaborate.  The youth leader at the Abbey is a hilarious man called Paul and he asked me if I could replace his cleaning lady and I said yes. PAHAHA. I'm a cleaning lady now. Seriously, could I BE any more domesticated?  I did my first clean this week and it. was. awesome. Anyone who knows me knows I'm a massive geek and I.....brace yourself....love cleaning. I hate cleaning my own home though, it's just really annoying cleaning up after yourself, but I flipping love organising other people's homes. And he sent me a text saying I'd done an excellent job. AN EXCELLENT JOB I tell you. I came away and bought a wide selection of cleaning fluids and sponges with a scrubby side. *hangs head in shame* 
I also was asked by Great Mate Jess if I could cover someone at her work in London for a day, so I'm blates gonna do that. Hello day-in-London-earning-money-and-pretending-to-be-a-grown-up. 

FOUR. 

Here's a stumbly selection for your delectation haha.  Stumbled across this earlier this week. Is it the best bathroom in the world? Possibly.  This is funny. This is way funnier, especially the guy's comments under each photo HAHA. This is massively overdone across the universe but it's still pretty cool. And finally, I want to live in this.

FIVE. 

After mentioning Gungor's song 'Beautiful Things' recently, I bought the album and have been listening to it so much, it's so brilliant. This is my official recommendation. It's a really beautiful album with songs that get into your head really quickly. It's God-y but not all the songs are massively God-y. For all you Christians out there, it's like worship music that's not really like worship music, just wonderful words and lovely melodies. And for all you non-Christians out there, this is an amazing album that has stuff about God in it sometimes. Don't let that put you off though, I heard he's pretty rad.

Peace out, friends, Romans and countrymen.


PS. If there are any actual Romans reading this, kudos.