22 June 2012

Little Chicken


I've always wanted a dog. I was never allowed one as my parents didn't think we'd collectively be able to properly look after one. Fast forward many years, and here they are. With. A. Dog. Yes, I moved out and they finally got a dog!

However, they got her in a very round-about way. My brother's ex had 3 dogs, Chicken being the little doggy living with 2 massive dogs. Inevitably, they stole her food and she wasn't very happy. The little dog had to leave... My brother asked my parents if she could stay with them until he and his now ex-girlfriend saved up and moved into their own place. They said no, they didn't want a dog around. Eventually my bro managed to persuade them to have her for one night as they hadn't found anywhere to keep her that night and my parents gave in. The rest is history as they completely fell in love with her, though my Dad managed to act inconvenienced for a little while ;)

My brother's ex turned out to be not such a nice person and barely even came to visit Chicken even while they were still together. So when they split up, Chicken stayed with my family :) I met her a few months lately and found her a little scary for the first few minutes. She's a tiny ball of fur with a huge amount of energy and she had literally launched herself at me! She soon settled down and fell asleep on my lap and that was it. I was besotted!

Two years on and I try to hang out with her as much as possible, which is difficult considering we're 5 hours apart from each other. My family get a little jealous as they think I'm just wanting to see her ;)

Here are a few photos we took not so long ago :) Be warned, this dog is a poser!












I love this one :)

Wordle up!


I was introduced to this cool little website recently which I really enjoyed playing around with. I made this just by pasting in the lyrics from a song I love.

Have a go and see what you can create!

Hannah xo

21 June 2012

London Diversion: Geffrye Museum


I recently had a day off and decided to visit the Geffrye Museum. This is a really cool museum of the home housed within 18th Century almshouses, which used to be a home for the elderly built with money donated by Sir Robert Geffrye. It's a two minute walk from Hoxton station and I highly recommend it if you ever get the chance to visit :)

The museum is an exhibition of English middle class living rooms from the 1600s right through until the present day. Visiting the museum is like taking a walk through time!





The beautiful exterior
One of the almshouses

A parlour in 1695
A sunny reading room, how lovely is this?!

A drawing room in 1830
This is an Edwardian Period room, love that light!

A beautiful 1930s Period room

Mid-century living room

I fell in love with this pedestal table from about 1845 :) what a beauty!

1900 Japanese parasol - eventually declared unsafe for decorating fireplaces!

A super cool retro TV from the 1950s
Did you know that...?
  • Downing Street became the official London residence of the Prime Minister in 1732.
  • In 1765 an 8-year-old Mozart wrote his first symphony.
  • The World’s first underground railway opened in London in 1863.
  • In London, in 1870, the postal service was so efficient that you could invite your friend to afternoon tea by sending an invitation that same morning!

Hannah xo


20 June 2012

Little pieces of information...



Below are 5 completely non-important and totally random Hannahisms. Completely useless pieces of information that make me, well, me!

1) Once I've started reading a book or watching a film, I HAVE to finish it no matter how much I think it sucks. However, when it comes to a TV series, I give it three episodes and then I'll allow myself to scrap it. Oh, and I HAVE to watch a series from the start and in order.

2) I love lists! I seriously am a listaholic, please do feel free to send me to list rehab. My favourite list is the one I've always kept of the artists I've seen live. It currently looks like this...

8th Time Lucky
30 Seconds to Mars (x4)
65 Days Of Static
AC/DC
A Day To Remember (x4)
A Fine Frenzy
Aiden (x4)
Alexisonfire (x3)
Alice Cooper
Alkaline Trio
All Forgotten
All Or Nothing
All Time Low (x3)
Alter Bridge
An Albatross
Anarbor
Angels and Airwaves
Anthrax
Anti-Flag (x3)
Architects
Armor For Sleep
Armstrong
As I Lay Dying
Atreyu (x2)
Attack! Attack! (x7)
August Burns Red
Azriel
Band Of Horses
Basshunter
Bayside (x3)
Beans On Toast
Beat Union (x2)
Between the Trees (x2)
Biffy Clyro (x3)
Billy Talent (x2)
Billy Vincent
Black Cards
Black Eyed Peas
Black Gold
Blackhole
Black Stone Cherry
Black Tide
Bleeding Through
Blue October (x2)
B.O.B.
Bon Jovi
Boys Like Girls (x4)
Brand New (x3)
Breathe Carolina
Brigade
Bring Me The Horizon (x3)
Broadway Calls
Buckcherry
Bullet For My Valentine (x3)
Butch Walker
Cancer Bats
Canterbury (x4)
Carpathia
Cartel (x2)
Cee Lo Green
Chiodos (x2)
Circa Survive
Cobra Starship (x3)
Covergirl
Cute Is What We Aim For (x2)
Dave Melillo
Deaf Havana (x3)
Def Leppard
Deftones
Dirty Pretty Things
DJ Shadow
Dopamine
Dragonforce
Dream Theater
Eighteen Visions
Electric City
Elliot Minor (x2)
Emarosa
Emery
Enjoy Destroy (x3)
Enter Shikari (x5)
Envy Of The State
Envy on the Coast (x2)
Escape The Fate (x3)
Every Avenue
Example (x2)
Exit Avenue (x2)
Exit Ten
Explosions in the Sky
Failsafe (x2)
Faith No More
Fall Out Boy (x3)
Family Force Five (x3)
Fearless Vampire Killers
Fightstar (x7)
Fin
Finch
Flood of Red (x4)
Foo Fighters
Forever The Sickest Kids (x2)
For The Fallen Dreams
Forward Russia
Four Year Strong (x5)
Foxboro Hot Tubs
Framing Hanley
Francesqa (x3)
Frank Turner
From First To Last
Fun.
Funeral For A Friend (x5)
Funeral Party
Furthest Drive Home (x5)
Futures
Gallows (x4)
Gaoler's Daughter
Gary Numan
Gavin Butler
Gay For Johnny Depp
Girls Can't Catch
Glamour of the Kill (x4)
Glassjaw (x3)
Godsized
Goldfinger
Good Charlotte(x6)
Gossip
Green Day (x3)
Halifax
Hard-Fi
HelloGoodbye
Hello Mexico
Hexes
Hey Monday
HIM
Hinder
Hit The Lights (x3)
Hollow Earth Theory
Hollywood Undead (x4)
Horse The Band
Hundred Reasons (x2)
I am Ghost
I am the Avalanche
Iggy And The Stooges
Imelda May
Immercia
In Case Of Fire (x3)
Incubus
Inme
Innerpartysystem
Iron Maiden
I See Stars
Jack Durtnall
Jettblack
Jimmy Eat World (x2)
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
Johnny Get The Gun
Journey
Just Surrender
Karnivool
Kelly Clarkson
Kenai
Kids in Glass Houses (x12)
Killswitch Engage
Korn
Lacuna Coil
Lanterns on the Lake
LCD Soundsystem
Lichens
Lights
Limp Bizkit
Lissie
Lost Alone
Lostprophets (x11)
Lower Than Atlantis (x2)
Machine Head
Madina Lake (x7)
Mammal
Marilyn Manson
Matthew P
Maximum The Hormone
Mayday Parade (x2)
Mazes
McFly
MC Lars
Meg & Dia (x2)
Melée
Metallica
Metro Station (x2)
Me vs. Hero
Mike TV
Mindless Self Indulgence
Mission District
Missy Elliot
Modestep
Moneen
Motion City Soundtrack
Motley Crue (x2)
Mount Kimbie
Mucc
Munroe Effect
My American Heart (x4)
My Chemical Romance
My Passion (x2)
My Takeover Effect
Never Means Maybe (x3)
Never Shout Never
New Device
New Found Glory (x2)
Nickelback
Nightbeast!
Nine Inch Nails
No Plato (x2)
Oceans Upon Us
Oh No Not Stereo
Ortega
Ou Est Le Swimming Pool
Our People Versus Yours
Our Time Down Here
Out Of Sight (x3)
Owl City
Paige
Panic! at the Disco (x2)
Papa Roach (x3)
Parachutes
Paramore (x5)
Parkway Drive
Pdex
Pendulum
People In Planes (x2)
Pierce The Veil
Pink
Placebo
Plain White T's (x2)
Plastiscenes
Polar
Prima Donna
Prego (x3)
Problem Kids
Protest The Hero
Pulled Apart By Horses
Pussycat Dolls
Rage Against The Machine
Rammstein
Ray Davies
Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
Reemer
Revelin Sky
Rise Against
Rooney
Sacred Mother Tongue
Said Mike (x2)
Saosin (x2)
Save Your Breath
Saving Aimee(x5)
Say Anything
S Club 7
Second Sense
Senses Fail
Serj Tankian
Set Your Goals (x3)
Shadows Chasing Ghosts (x2)
Shapes
Shibby
Silverstein (x4)
Simple Plan
Skindred
Slayer
Slipknot (x2)
Snoop Dogg
Sonic Boom Six
Sonny Moore
Sophie Ellis Bextor
Sorrell Waldie
Staind
Stars Of The Search Party
Steel Panther (x2)
Stone Gods
Story Of The Year
Strike Anywhere
Suicide Silence
Sum 41
Take the Crown
Taking Back Sunday(x10)
Taking Dawn (x2)
Tall Ships
Tek One (DJ set)
Telegraphs
The Academy Is... (x2)
The Audition (x8)
The Big Pink
The Blackout (x25)
The Blackout Crew
The Bronx
The Color Fred (x2)
The Crave (x2)
The Defiled
The Drums
The First
The Ghost Inside
The Ghost of a Thousand (x2)
The Gutter Twins
The Jonas Brothers
The Like
The Maine (x2)
The Mexicolas
The New 1920s (x2)
The Offspring
The Pattern Theory
The Rising Dogs
The Rocket Summer (x2)
The Saturdays (x2)
The Secret Handshake
These Monsters
The Sleeping
The Spill Canvas
The Swellers
The Temper Trap
The Tony Cannam Set
The Used (x3)
The Xcerts 
This City (x2)
This Providence
Thrice
Thursday
Tonight is Goodbye(x6)
Trigger The Bloodshed
Trivium
Tubelord
Turbonegro
Twenty Twenty
Twin Atlantic (x2)
Underoath (x2)
Upon A Burning Body
Upon Clouds
Valencia
Vengaboys
Versaemerge
Watch Out Vegas
We Are Fiction
We Are Scientists
We Are The Ocean (x7)
Weezer
We The Kings (x4)
When All Else Fails
Whole Wheat Bread
Wild Nothing
Yashin
Yellowire
You Me At Six (x17)
Young Guns (x4)
Young Legionnaire (x2)
Your Demise
ZZ Top


Hmm... guess I'm a gigaholic too... My longest list is my Lovefilm list which currently stands at 926 titles, eek!

3) I used to have a tradition of having a Lord of the Rings extended editions marathon on Easter Sunday which usually involved also eating a ton of pizza and chocolate brownies too, heaven! It all started on a particularly lonely Easter Sunday while I was living in Barcelona. My flatmates had gone away for the weekend and I was missing my family and friends back in England and it sucked! My tradition was broken this year when my man whisked me away to Brighton for a romantic weekend away :)

4) I find that I get very nostalgic on Bonfire Night. I always think about where I was and who I was with in the years before. I also wonder what my life will bring me for Bonfire Night the next year...

5) I got my first television job straight out of university off the back of entering a competition! It was for the chance to be a 'slave' for a channel at a music festival for a weekend. I was offered a permanent position and a move to London the next day and the rest is history!

What makes you 'you'? I'd love to know!

Hannah xo