In five years time you might just prove me wrong..

It's been well over five years since Noah and the Whales song Five years time hit the charts. But the future is something that has been on my mind a lot recently. The tag 'Ten years time' has been going around a lot on social media sites by a lot of young bloggers and vloggers and I'm so relieved  to see that I'm not the only one who doesn't really know what I want to do or where I see myself being in five years or even ten years time.

I'm 19 year old and less than 14 weeks I will have sat my exams and left college. I'll be heading out into the big wide world and frankly I'm scared. I'm excited too but mainly scared. I don't feel like school has prepared me for living away from home. I can't cook very well and I haven't had a home economics lesson since year nine. My maths lessons never taught me how to pay my bills and put my money into decent savings accounts or open an ISA or deal with tax. Knowing the theorems of Pythagoras and PI seem pretty useless for what I need to be able to do in real life.

I know what I want out of life, I want a good job that pays me well so that I can do the things I want to do and have a family and be surrounded by good friends. These are all typical aspirations. I'm sure that for anyone reading this, that they must want these things.

When, I was six I wanted to be a writer, I was always writing stories or making little books. As I grew older I wanted to become a journalist, write about people's stories that I felt needed to be told. But a lot of that has changed. Secretly, I still want those things but people around me tell me that they're not possible. That being a writer is a huge risk and that I should find a job in another field as a lot of the time in freelance journalism the money isn't always there and I'd be better with a solid 9-5 office job that I know I'm always going to get paid for. I guess that's part of the reason I write this blog to keep up with my writing and not lose sight of something I love.

I'm worried that people will drift in and out of my life and won't stay around. I started college almost two years ago and half the people I would've said were my best friends in secondary school just aren't in my life anymore. Not because we've fallen out but because of distance. Our lives are so different, some are at uni and others are in full time jobs and don't have time to come home and visit. Going to see friends and planning days out together can get really expensive for me because I live in the middle of nowhere and public transport isn't cheap. I am constantly meeting new people but I like the idea of having solidarity, friends who I can always rely on. I have one best friend who I am always there for and she is always there for  me no matter if it's 3am in the morning or she's on holiday in the Alps. She will always be there for me. I hope to meet more people like that and form new lasting friendships.

I hope to be able to afford my own place to live. House prices today as astronomical. But I hate the idea that I might still be living in rented accommodation up until my early 30s. The idea of having a home that you fully own when you're older is something that I'm sure loads of other people my age aren't even considering right now. But the majority of people I know that have just put a down payment on their starters homes are in the late 20's and have been saving since there early 20s.

Maybe, I am spending too much time looking to the future. Let me know you're worries and hopes for the future in the comments below.  This is the sort of post where I feel it would've been easier to film and talk about than actually trying to make sense of my thoughts by writing them down.

Lindy Bop Lovin

So as the vintage reproduction brand Lindy Bop reached 1 million likes on facebook they have given all their customers a 10% discount til midnight on Friday. Therefore, I have spent a whole afternoon scrolling through all their dresses trying to decide which dress I really want. I have managed to narrow it down to five, so I thought that I would share with you guys my top five.

 So this first dress makes it on to the list because I asked my boyfriend to choose a dress that he thought would suit me. Basically, if I purchase this dress I will be fishing for an evening out! Wined and Dined at our favourite vintage inns pub in Marholm. #Hinthint

This dress I'm in love with. I think it would be perfect to wear to the beach over the Summer. The stripes remind me of rock candy that I used to buy at the beach when I was a kid and my mom always told me off for because it was terrible for my teeth. I think this would look really cute with some white block wedge sandals.

 This dress, was the dress that I thought that my boyfriend might have chosen. He once told me that he thought that girls in red dresses looked really classy, so I'm always on the look out for a new red dress to add to my collection. I think that this would be really cute to wear out over the Summer when we go out for picnics in park and for walks in the woods.

 I adore the floral print of this dress. I think it's gorgeous. The cut of the dress is just so classy. It's the sort of dress that I would wear out to an important business event over the summer. Definitely, not a dress that I would consider wearing everyday.

Tartan has been in fashion recently which I think explains my attraction to this dress. The bow detailing on the waist is beautiful and I'm a huge fan of the sweet heart neckline.

Favourite dates

Picnics are my number one date during the Summer months. I don't want to be cooped up in a cinema or a coffee house whilst the sun is shining!

Picnics also come with a very small price tag and can take very little preparation. You can just pick up some sandwiches on the way to the place you're visiting or make your own at home before you go. I find making your own normally works out cheapest unless you can get a meal deal. It all depends on how many people are coming whether you're going as a group of on a date.

Picnics are great for getting old friends back together but also awesome for a romantic date. Last summer, my boyfriend took me for a picnic and a man saw us and came out of his house with a bottle of white wine and some glasses. It was such a perfect date. We were able to spend time talking and let go of all the little stresses in our lives for a few blissful hours.

My local area is quite a built up city and people seem to forget that there are all these beautiful places to be explore. Going for walks in the countryside is not only good for your health but they're relatively cost free days out with family and friends.

And remember just because you're only going out for a picnic doesn't mean you can't get all dolled up.

Feel free to comment below love to hear from you guys!

Suzy x

World Book Day

I loved reading as a child. I constantly had my nose in a book, I was that kid walking down the road still reading. I loved being able to escape into someone else's story, as a kid I wasn't real popular in all honesty I was a bit of a geek and to be truthful I still am. I was always found carrying a book around with me it was the best way to look busy when I had no one that wanted to talk to or hang out with me at break times. Fortunately, when I reached high school I made loads of awesome friends but these days I barely seem to have time to read as there's always something else or some event that I'm at.

Anyways today is World Book Day. I used to look forward to this day every year, free book vouchers!! I could afford the latest book I wanted that wasn't available from my local library.

I have a few very old copies of my favourite childhood books. My favourite series of books as a child was The Naughtiest Little Girl in School by Enid Blyton. On World Book Day in Year 3 I went as the main character Elizabeth Allen, which meant I went in my school uniform on a non uniform day with some homemade badges from my mom that said lacrosse team and prefect. Needless to say I didn't win one prize for an inventive costume. I just didn't want to wear my home clothes in case I got picked on or laughed at, I'm a huge advocate of school uniform everyone's the same!

So by day I would escape to the world of Elizabeth Allen, a mischievous school girl who learnt from her mistakes and made good friends and was popular amongst her peers most of the time. By night I was hidden under the covers reading C S Lewis's The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. Dreaming of being like Lucy and Susan or on really bad days even the White Witch so I could turn to stone all the kids who had picked on me and do as I pleased.

I loved these books, the covers are so beautiful and unique. The thing that I find most surprising about them is there price, on the back of my copy of the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, the selling price is 20p.  I find it crazy how much the value of money has changed since my copy was printed in 1971.

These are two of my favourite childhood stories that I cherish as holding real meaning to me. I think reading is very important amongst young children and that they should be encouraged to read the books not just watch the films. I also really believe in giving children books instead of kindles and tablets to read off. I love my old copies of these children's classics. They're a little battered but they're so well loved and I hope one day to be able to give them to my little girl or boy to read like my Mom gave them to me. Maybe a few generations down the line they'll be family heirlooms and worth millions of pounds as books will have become so rare in the technological age. Who knows what they future holds!

Hope you guys approve, let me know your thoughts in the comments below and share any of your childhood favourites. Happy World Book Day Everyone :)