Winter this year has been rather unpredictable. There were murmurs of the worst snows in decades during autumn which actually turned out to be a whole siege of rainstorms. While Stirling wasn’t too badly affected compared to other areas of the UK, we did have some floods in town and winds that got dangerously high […]
Family
Surprise!
My brother is officially 18! I flew down to London to surprise him for his birthday. Unbeknownst to him, my mum and I had been concocting a plan since early March to get me down from Stirling. I was on the fence about it because it was so close to the exam period, but once […]
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Pescadero
What better way to spend my mid-semester break in Victoria… than to leave Victoria and fly down to California! I am very fortunate to have family who live in the Bay Area so I spent the collective six days I had free down in the phenomenally sunny US! Little did I know I’d be taken […]
Grandparents on Tour
Now, it’s not often I get visitors up here in Stirling. The effort required in getting to Scotland alone is enough to put most people off. To date, I’ve only managed to convince two of my friends from back home to come and visit me (and they travelled on an overnight coach from Victoria Bus […]
Whistle Stop Tour of Greenwich
This week has been so busy! I’ve started two new summer jobs and reached Week 5 of my C25K plan, as well as started my fundraising for my Kili trip! I’ve currently raised £258.04 for AICR (which Just Giving informs me is 8% of my target) and now I’m compulsively checking the page every five minutes to see […]
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Cancer Research UK: A Midsummer Night’s Breeze
This is a photo of my mum on her wedding day with her parents and bridesmaids. My grandfather died of lung cancer due to passive smoking on the boat he worked on. One bridesmaid has beaten cancer and the other is currently fighting it. Here’s the group shot from when my parents were married. Everyone […]