Take me away!

I've never been a big car fan. That is - I've never researched them. I've always had a relative idea of what I want to drive - if I ever bother to take the test: a yellow beetle or an old-fashioned mini. And it seems nowadays that we are bombarded with adverts on TV for certain cars.

As far as I'm concerned, unless it looks like it came from the 1980's or has an inbuilt system for churning out free, hot, freshly made pizzas and Olly Murs on tap, a car is a car.

But no advert has struck me quite like this. I go as far to say that it's my favourite advert behind the Aldi one for garden peas!



Audi Quattro. 

I think that the voice over is a work of sensual art! It's fantastic and so applicable.

The weather in England hasn't been great - take that for a surprise! But I don't overly mind. Apart from days like today that have just. Kept. Coming.

One of my favourite lines from the advert is: "When there are four seasons in just one day." I don;t know why, but in that gorgeous voice over the overhead speaker, I can't get it out of my mind.

Forever and ever, it seems that we've been having spring, summer, autumn and winter as a collective. My days function a bit like this.

I wake up and save for a thin white layer of cloud the weather looks promising. So I skip the wholly hat, thermal gloves and rain coat in favour of one cardigan, a fabric coat and a pocket umbrella. I head out and it drizzles. Then it stops. Then the wind takes over and at this point the thunderous applaud of rain decides to return creating rivers and a wet haze that sprays in every direction. Then, as I make it through the wind and rain and cold with soaking wet feet and frizzled hair, the clouds disperse, the blue sky appears and the sun blinks innocently in the sky.

Four seasons in a day - that becoming more and more frequent!!

But, though I moan, I don't mind it. The more it happens, the more I get to hear that lovely voice of the man from the Quattro advert reminding me of the days when: "it's the wrong kind of snow".

Maybe you won't even like it as much as I've said but you've got to listen! Enjoy!!

Obsession 7

My 7th obsession is something I love to think about and something that can change my mood in an instant: the sun.

Living in Dubai did me good. It gave me charming photos like this:

But most of all it helped me see each day as a horizon filled with opportunities to do things that would make other people happy. The warmth on your skin and the brightness in your eyes has the most wonderful effect! When I could come home after school and just sit out in the sun until it went down! It really helped me highlight what it was that was important in my life and how lucky I was to have what I had. 

Obsession Number 6

Obsession Number 6 - we're here already!!! This is probably the most commitment I have ever put into anything!! That's a little bit shocking really!

And, to be truthful, this post should have come right at the start because my parents and my family are not my 6th obsession behind Olly Murs and an unhealthy addiction to pizza; they are my first.

They are behind me to push me forward, in front of me to stop me going to far and always (metaphorically) with me.

Being away from my family and having my wandering mind to contend with has been one of the hardest, if not steepest learning curves ever, but if anything it had made me love my family a whole lot more. You really never know what you've got till you can no longer have it on tap.

So here's to family; the wind in my sails.

Excuse my rude!

It's probably about time that I say this:

Thank you sooooooo much!!!

I want to let everyone who has supported me in reading my blog that the comments that you give me are one of the most precious things to me! I am absolutely thrilled that you guys love reading what I have to say and I'm so happy to be able to share what I have with you!

It really makes my mornings and days and weeks when people send me really positive feedback. I keep all the nice messages that I have in a folder on my computer because they mean so much to me! They really boost my morale and continue to give me the drive to pursue what I really love doing.

I once read that writers need readers and you really are that important to me. The more you read, the more I want to write.

Perhaps this sounds cheesy but I really can't say it any other way:

Without everyone who takes the time to plow through my thoughts, my writing would have no purpose. I would probably have returned to this inverted version of myself looking for the use that I could be.

So thank you, thank you, thank you!!! I know this is only a shade of the kind of happiness you make me feel but I hope that, by understanding how much I value your support, I have made your morning, day and/or week.

Thank you :D xx