Yorkshire Glory!

Today, me and my friend Katie went and explored one of the wonders of Yorkshire: Castle Howard. Having already been once before, I was looking forward to it as I know its beauty. To get there, we had to get an hour bus through the countryside which was, to say the least, very bumpy. BUT we did get to see some very young lambs and calves as we whizzed through the countryside- soo cute! Similar to the ones on Lambing Live that has been on the BBC this week actually.

Having finally arrived, we headed to the main house. More like a Manor, Castle Howard is a huge beauty, and me and Katie were rather excited. Katie saw a lake, and kept on calling Colin Firth to arrive out of it.

The interior of Castle Howard is decorated beautifully, the with birds painted on wallpaper, and marble statues placed everywhere. Unfortunately, the main dome was ruined by a fire in 1940, so it was re-constructed, but some of the original paintings were lost.

We then payed for a rather expensive but yummy lunch, and having stuffed ourselves on chicken pie and cheesecake, walked around the grounds for the rest of the afternoon. It was truly lovely, the sun was out, the daffodils were in bloom and spring is really in the air!

I really would recommend going to Castle Howard. I have been twice now and both times the house and grounds have really spoke to me of the workmanship and beauty that God can create, through man and nature. Go, I tell you, go!

Adios for now, but here's a few pictures of the place :)

Beautiful wallpaper
My dream bookshelf!

Past times

This afternoon I have been taking some time out from university work, and have instead been enjoying the 1995 version of Little Women. Such a wonderful film, I watched it many times as I was growing up and used to pretend that I was in fact Jo.

The 1995 film version of the novel is a wonderful adaptation, and I particularly loved the acting of Clare Danes, Winona Ryder and in fact the whole family. The scene which shows Clare Dane's character, Beth, is particularly moving and I can't help but end up sobbing every time I watch it.

Watch this version if you can. I hadn't seen it in a while, but watching it this afternoon I remembered again why I love it so much.

Farewell amigos,

Library musings

Sitting in the library, trying to do some work for an essay due in tomorrow.

BUT: I keep getting distracted- what a surprise!

Four guys are giggling like girls in front of me, looking at something on their laptop.

And I can't but help nebbing.

Also, I have been looking at curly hairstyles. Since I had a hair-cut-disaster, Ive been waiting for it to grow so I can get it re-styled to something that is presentable without a headband.

In the meantime, I am looking at pictures of curly hair, if you could find any decent ones I would be forever grateful!!

Here's a couple or three:

All pictures from hair.becomegeorgeous.com

Now on with some more work...

xx

Gustav Klimt, inspiration

I've just been looking over some wonderful Gustav Klimt paintings, here's a few from the delicious selection that I looked at.

P.S: This post seems to be getting a lot of traffic, what do you all think? Aren't his works beautiful? Comments please! X

Lent.

So I decided to give up tea for lent. As an avid tea drinker, this has become a quest and a mission, but I am managing ok. So far I have been able to stay off the normal tea, and have only had green tea twice. Considering I usually drink around 3-5 cups of tea, I think 40 days of no tea should be a fantastic detox!

5 days down, 35 to go.

Talk to me, what else are people giving up for lent?

What I'm watching

The Apprentice:

This hilarious business competition has bought me a lot of laughs. The quote of the week this episode (10), was from Alan Sugar when he was trying to curb Stewart's 'enthusiasm':

"a fly's got enthusiasm but that doesn't stop him head-butting a window!"Apart from not really making any sense, this just simply made me laugh.

But the best this series came from Alex: "If I was an apple-pie, the apples inside would be orange". Classic!!