Hello,

This is the second time typing this post as I had nearly finished and my laptop crashed and me being an idiot, didn’t save the document. We can pretend that this is an unheard-of thing to happen to me but unfortunately it happens quite a lot. So, moral of this story folks is to save your work. Anyway, hello! It is so lovely to be back and posting again on here, I’ve decided to jazz it up a bit and go with a minimalist kind of theme. What do you think? I’ve had this blog for a long time now and I have very much neglected it recently, but I think I have a valid reason. Uni took over my life. But now, uni is over and not just for this year. The course is complete. I have to say, I’m very impressed I got that far but I shall share all those details in a full uni themed post later this week. Instead of just throwing myself back into the blogging aspect of this blog (great words, Lia), I wanted to do a post reintroducing myself so here we go.

How are you? I’m not asking this in the form of general small talk as I’m aware you’re reading this and I assure you, I’m not sat behind you ready to go “boo!” so you cannot answer to my face. But please do let me know, on a comment or message on social media, how you are doing. This is a weird time for us all and we should all ask each other how we are and truly mean it. So, how are you? I’m not going to dwell on what is happening in the world right now in terms of Covid-19 because it gets me down, I get sad, angry and frustrated and that is not what this blog is about so I’m mention it occasionally in passing. Don’t worry, here is a safe place! To the people who are new here, hello! You’ll get used to my rambling and probably think the inside of my head is a rainbow and the clouds are made out of cotton wool and you wouldn’t be far wrong, but sometimes I talk sense so please enjoy. To you lovely lot who are still coming back to this little blog, thank you! I really appreciate it and if I could afford it (still living the poor student life post-student) I would send you all one of those cards full of confetti so joy could surround you and sunshine would be spread everywhere, even if just for a while. However, I wouldn’t come and help to hoover it up. Really though, thanks for sticking around. I’ve had this blog since I was about 15 and at the grand old age of 21, I’m still trying to find a niche.

A niche. You’d think it would be easy! However, it appears it is not, so I dedicate this lovely space of the internet to being a lifestyle blog. A type of lifestyle blog that has plans to explore so many different elements of lifestyles to find out which one feels right. I’ve grown a lot as a person (not in height) since I started this blog and have gone through so many ups and downs so I’m excited to see where this next step of the blog goes. I find that when I throw myself into doing things, I get more inspiration from everyday happenings so we’re going to follow this plan and create some posts.

It seems easy to blame uni for me neglecting my blog but I think I was constantly feeling the pressure to write academically that all the joy I got from writing for pleasure seemed to disappear. It isn’t the first time this has happened, after A-Level English Literature I took a while to read for pleasure. Now I feel a sense of freedom in my writing and like it’s something I look forward to again. Instead of “oh, I really need to work on that bit of that essay”. I feel really positive about things at the minute, so I hope you’ll join me in this new chapter.

 And don’t forget my how are you question.

All my love. Who knows what this next week will bring us but I hope it’s full of loveliness,

Lia x