April

Hello (:

It's been a bloody long time, hasn't it? I've slacked so much on the blogging front. I feel dead boring and like nothing worth writing about has happened recently, so I've just not said much. I want to try and implement some sort of blogging routine, where I post on specific days. That might help things to be a bit more consistent on here and it should help motivate me to write a bit bloody more.

Anyway, April! Not the most exciting month of my life, not gonna lie.

It all started with a little trip across the pond to Dublin. In hindsight, I'd have done a lot of that trip a lot differently. As I've gotten a bit older, I want a lot more from my holidays. I love going on nights out and I like a good boozy holiday as much as the next person, but I like to do things as well. I like going on day trips and seeing things you wouldn't see at home. We didn't really do much of that in Ireland. The Guinness Storehouse left much to the imagination and my hopes of going to Dublin Castle were dashed by spending too long in the hotel faffing around.


Not long after Dublin, it was my friend's 26th birthday and we planned a day trip to Alton Towers to celebrate. She's not massively into big nights out anymore, so we thought this would be a fun alternative. I love Alton Towers. I first went when I was in year 9 at school and it was a post SATs treat, but no one got on any of the big rides all day and we were super miffed that the teachers had bought themselves queue jump passes and got on everything. Rita had just opened back then as well.

Fortunately, I've managed to go a few times since that disappointing day, and so I've been on all the big rides. It was a really decent day out, the weather stayed alright, which was one thing we'd been worried about. We ended up waiting a good two hours to go on The Smiler, but still managed to cram in most of the other rides before it closed. The only downside was how busy it was, and trying to keep up with ride times. My friend has the app on her phone but that wasn't updating so we often ended up in bigger queues than anticipated.

We also totally missed The Big Six Challenge. We saw the advert on our way down to Thirteen, and we had about an hour left to cram in that and Rita, so we missed out on completing the challenge. It's basically to ride all 'The Big Six' rollercoasters in a day (The Smiler, Oblivion, Thirteen, Rita, Air and Nemesis) we'd only missed out Oblivion!

In April, my sister turned 21, so we ended up in TGI Friday's eating everything and drinking cocktails before work (naughty). I bought us tickets for Slam Dunk Festival as part of her present, and that's two weeks tomorrow, which is really exciting! We're heading to the Midlands date in Wolverhampton. 

Apart from that, April's been quite dull. I've spent a lot of it trying to work as much over time as possible. There's been talks of potential holidays in October and so much stuff coming up that I need the money for. So, I apologise for abandoning my little blog, I really do want to try more with it in the coming months.

I'm not going to do a monthly 'reads' round up for April, as I'm still stuck in a reading rut and only read one book. Isla and the Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins was the perfect, slushy end to the trilogy, and one I'd definitely recommend if you're after a good YA book. If you have any good book recommendations for me, don't hesitate to leave them in the comments, the book I'm currently reading isn't engaging me at all.

On the blog, I talked about my trip to Dublin, created the ultimate cheer-up list and chatted about why everyone should've voted - I hope you did!

Here's to hoping May is a bit more exciting than April (although, I'm sure it will be)