Top 10 songs of 2011?

A response to all of the "Top 10 songs of 2011" posts that are going on, some songs that I've grown to love the last 12 Months.

Delicate Steve - Butterfly




This song, like all songs by Delicate Steve is bloody brilliant. One of those walking to the bus stop "today is going to me an amazing day" songs. I first heard Delicate Steve in 2010 sometime and just didn't understand what was going on but put it on my phone anyway and it came on when I was walking home from the pub on night and I felt invincible. Listen to this, you won't regret it.

By Your Hand - Los Campesinos



When I first moved to London this was a song that reminded me of home. I'd not heard it before I moved but if you've known me for any length of time you'll probably know that a few years ago I practically worshiped Los Campesinos at one point, their songs were something I could dance to and still be all "yeah, so this unknown welsh band, you've probably never heard of them" way back in the days of school uniforms when I was cool and wanted all hipster and stuff, naturally, once I heard You! Me! Dancing! I kinda turned them down a bit. Maybe that makes me bias because it might not actually be one of the best songs of 2011, but it's a great taste of their new album and gets my feet tapping.

Beyonce - Countdown.




I tried at first to avoid butting beyonce in, part of me just wants to do a post of my favourite beyonce songs. I'm not sure if it's some kind of nostalgic link to sitting about with the girls from home listening to youtube beyonce playlists but this is - like so many of her songs - undeniably good. The song is just a mix of all things good about her. Definitely been a great and welcome addition to my iTunes top 25 played, I have some theory that it makes my cycle faster.

The Joy Formidable - Whirring




I think it was my old history teacher that told me about The Joy Formidable, a hope that they'd make it or something. This is actually a re-release so I'm a bit hesitant about putting it, its such a chilled song, the start reminds me so much of arcade fire, but like Of Montreal and Broken Social Scene all at the same time. A crush of all your favorite "indie" bands. You know those days when you're walking somewhere and its sunny outside, but it's still cold enough that you have to wear a coat.. autumn..  that's when you want this
 to come on. Kicking the leaves aside. It's mellow but its not depressing. Makes me want to dance. If you're not content with this, check out Wilco's Whole Love instead. That was my original choice but I changed it.. urgh...

Milo Greene - 1957



I read about this band on http://www.thegrapevinemusic.com late one night half by accident, half by doing that ever so hipster thing of thinking that you can find the next big thing. Part of me just thinks anything with a banjo or mandolin is cool and grabs my attention. I thought that this band had been kind of over looked but when I went to put the youtube link to this song I found people thanking NPR on the comments. I originally was going to put The Alabama Shakes in place here which I recently heard via P.M's post, but decided to avoid and pick these guys. Similar to The Civil Wars but a bit more plinky plonky if you're fans of them.

Azealia Banks - 212.



I hated this song the first time I heard it, the lyrics were crude the sound felt repetitive and I really didn't want to like a song just because Pitchfork told me too. I then found it again about a month later on pitchfork and listened to it again and thought it was the best thing in the world. It's probably the coolest thing I've heard this year and I can't really describe why.. (probably because of the reasons I didn't like it in the first place.) I spotted that this has been hitting the top of plenty of  music blogs 2011 posts and rightly so. It deserves a place. I had a choice between Niki Minaj's Super Bass - a song I do really love and this, there really was no competition.

The Weeknd - The Morning



I swear down this song was everywhere I went this year. Or at least I downloaded The Weeknd before I went to uni at some point and this song came on all the time on shuffle. I remember sitting at my brothers playing poker with his friends and this song came on and I was thinking "I love this song" then realised I didn't even know who it was. What a mistake. I've since listened back, I downloaded their 2 mixtapes for a reason and this is it - I haven't got the third in the trilogy yet but I have high hopes.

Metronomy - The Look.



I think this was my favorite summer album. Metronomy are effortlessly cool, this album makes that clear. I judged a lot of this off my phones top 25 most played and when I saw this a massive smile came accross my face. After the summer I kinda forgot about this album but the night before I came back to Manchester for Christmas my friend mentioned them and I swear this song helped me power through the 5 hour coach journey north. Makes me want to pick up my bass for the first time in forever.


The Milk Carton Kids - I still want a little more.



I probably could have picked anything of either of The Milk Carton Kid's albums this year. Tempted as I was to pick Charlie (which I've recently blogged about somewhere) that would simply be because I love my dad loads. Reluctant as I was to even put them in for some reason if I had to pick a most played album of 2011, the last 4 months alone plays would grant this the top spot. I picked this song because this is the song I put on when I walk to Tesco to get more milk and apple juice and it makes me feel on top of the world. I so wanted to be putting PJ Harvey here, and I feel kinda bad. But please if you haven't already, download The Milk Carton Kids albums from their website, its free so you basically have no excuse.

Bon Iver - Towers

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I don't think I could really get away without putting Bon Iver up here. After an incredible second album the whole world is buzzing all over again for this guy. This song makes my heart beat faster. If you want a song to put on in the morning when you wake up, this is it. I probably don't have to write any more about this because anyone who knows or likes to think they know anything about music has this album. // Side-note, definately do check out the acoustic Beth/Rest on NPR. It's close to perfect.

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There are loads more that I wanted to put on. If I could have been bothered I'd have made a much longer one. You wouldn't believe how much time I spent trying to get it to not match up too much with the lists on NPR, Pitchfork and similar blogs.. but in the end I gave up. They're on the lists for a reason and I don't think I've been quite hipster enough this term. Hope you enjoy this post. I assure you, there is not a bad song on it.


Check Out:

http://pmasinpaulmichael.wordpress.com/2011/12/11/songs-of-2011/
http://lifeascamille.tumblr.com/post/14087219117/songs-of-2011-or-songs-i-listened-to-in-my-car-with

Also, the Sunday CD Project over at JulezTalks.Blogspot for some reviews on new and old albums.



God Bless, L x

Memories of a lost life: #1

Face Off.

I couldn't tell you the precise date, when I look back over what was "Year 11" at Blue Coat; which I guess was 08-09 it seems like I spent everyday, even the blustery wet winter outside the schools modern foreign language shed the "JT Block." The most I could tell you is that it was a dry sunny day, a rarity that year, but I know because we were all sitting on the grass.

Everyone's done it. It's almost a right of passage, something you learn about from a young age and never forget. You know the one, when you pick up a aerosol can and hold a flame just a small stretch away from the tip of the can and spray away creating your own quite dangerous but really freeking cool blow torch and generating a feeling of ultimate power for a few short seconds.

You'd have thought by the time we were 16 that we'd have grown out of this arsonistic phase of our lives, but amusingly (albeit a bit sad) we hadn't.

So yes. It was a dry day sat out on the grass outside the "JT block" with all the usual culprits (pictured at the bottom.) When I think back, I feel like it was that time of year when everyone got out their old gameboys and tried to re-complete the original pokemon games, this period usually lasts a week and no one ever compleates it fast enough. I however wasn't taking part in this. Me and a good friend, probably one of my best friends at the time were lying on the grass with a box of matches and a dwarf can of "Impulse body spray" - which I can only assume was mine from when I was like 11 and first started secondary school.  

The plan we had wasn't quite that of the flame thrower I described above, we were after all in the middle of our school grounds and although we could get away with a lot of stuff, flame throwing wasn't one. No, instead we filled the lid of the body spray with body spray, we probably sprayed it for about 15 second's or something like that and prepared ourselves a match to throw in. 

When I replay the scene, I'm not sure why we didn't move further away after we'd thrown the match in. I'm not sure why we thought - after it didn't blow up within the first couple of seconds - why it was safe to go back to it. But that's exactly what we did. Luckily for me I was hovering at the side of Sam whose face was directly over the top of this lid. 

We genuinely didn't expect it to blow up, after the delay it seemed illogical in the moment that it might still blow up. I remember this rush of heat pass over my face burning the tip of my nose, rolling to the side as fast as possible I wasn't really sure what had just happened. I turned back over to see Sam sat up holding his face in his hands.

 - It's ok, his face wasn't burned, no sever injury's obtained.

The hair on sam's chinny chin chin, his eyebrows, his stubbly upper lip and the baby hairs at the top of his head had gotten singed. patches of black frizzled hair were to be seen on his face in place of what was previously stubble and there air that surrounded us became polluted with the stench of burnt hair.

That was a funny day.

Good ol' days.

God Bless L x

Matthew 4:23

Hey, I did a post a while about my friend Christina getting healed, hear is how she put it on one of our St Mary's Students Facebook walls. Wanted to share this with you because she tells it way better than I do and it really is mint:

I know you guys have heard this a million times but this is for the ones who have not :) 

About six months ago, I got diagnosed with a heart condition that meant the valves in my heart were smaller than average and had trouble pumping blood constantly. Sometimes I would get what was called “episodes” were my heart would just give up and I would get a sharp pain from my heart followed by my left arm going dead and being unable to breathe etc. I was on medication to control these episodes but not for the condition itself. 

About two months ago I got told by the doctors that the valves were for some reason shrinking and I would need a heart transplant and they cannot fix my heart and was given up to a year to get one. A month later my condition was worsening so they priority listed me and told me I would have to get the heart transplant within 6 months or I would quite possibly die. The sad part being even if I did get a new heart my chances of living were for no more than another 10 years; being 20 that really sucked. 

I had such a strong support group of people from church and elsewhere who supported me and prayed for me and kept me strong through the whole thing, but it really did seem like the more we prayed about it all, the more ill I was getting; such to the point at I eventually kind of said fine God do whatever concentrated on other aspects of my faith. 

The life course weekend came around; Eastbourne was amazing; I felt like I had an amazing experience with God focusing on everything else except for my health. On our way back on the train I had another one of my episodes and freaked everyone out a little bit :) We came straight from the train station to church. At the end of the service John asked for someone to come up for prayer if they had a tingly sensation in their hand connected to a heart problem, and I conveniently ignored this request because I had been prayed for and not healed and I was too tired to deal with it at that point. 

After a little “persuasion” (did not demand I go to the front whatsoever) from Rach I was prayed for by a number of people including Rach and Jenny. I knew something happened I experienced the Holy Spirit like I had never before and by the end I was convinced I was healed. 

Next morning, I went for my check up as I do every Monday, and my doctor did an ECG said my readings were different from usual and did a sonogram for my heart called and Echo, and turned to me and said, I do not know how to tell u this but there is nothing wrong with your heart. 

There was no medical explanation to what happened, but nothing short of a new heart would make me better and now my heart is as good as new. It came at a perfect time, when I actually stopped slacking and started doing what God wanted in other aspects of my life. 

It has been just under a month now been for three checkups and they asked me to come every three months now because it is a waste of money to see a person who is healthy every week. I am of course off the transplant list. I am well and healthy. 

Sorry this was so long, but God did something truly amazing in my life, from being told I could only live another 10 years if I was really lucky (and knowing I would not be able to have what I have always wanted and dreamt of in life) to be given my whole life back is amazing. I feel loved. God is good he never fails; it is just up to us to be patient. 

Ah, so awesome.

God Bless,

L x

Londin.

I love this.

Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat Please put a penny in the old man's hat If you haven't got a penny, a ha'penny will do If you haven't got a ha'penny, then God bless you!

Next week is the last of term.

This time next week I will be in (hopefully) my new bed, in my newly decorated bedroom at 1082 Huddersfield Road, Scouthead. I will be looking forward being woken up by my dad with a cup of tea, to walking down stairs to a Christmas tree in the corner and a day of lazying about doing nothing but watching neighbours and planning my week ahead. A week of hanging out with friends, Christmas party's, pub quizzes, drinking, singing Fairy Tale of New York really loudly with old friends and eating good food.

I can't wait. 

In the mean time I'm entering into my last week with a fist full of average grades (no lower than a 2.2, no higher than a 2.1) and a contact book full of new friends, a few of which I'll actually miss over Christmas. 

It might seem via my social networking output that I sit in bed all day watching Buffy and eating popcorn, and whilst this true for some of the time, I'm going home not dreading the thought of returning, which is definitely a positive for a cynic like me. Part of me might even miss London, not just the part where I hang out with celebs but little things, like sitting about the actors church writing, finding the best pubs/bars/cafes - general "joints" with various people, late nights playing jungle speed and .. I might even miss the Nutford dinners - although I highly doubt that last one. 

Despite all this, I can't wait to get back to Scouthead (Third wonder of greater Manchester) 

It is with Christmas cheer that I give you all this present, A Collection of Faux-Baroque Greeting Cards (From Edgerton Street to Kensington Series) Christmas Mixcast 2011:

Download it HERE: http://d01.megashares.com/dl/8799cc2/Christmas.mp3

http://www.flickr.com/photos/21913923@N03/4374726939/sizes/z/in/photostream/
This is Scouthead... 

1. In the bleak mid winter - Paper Areoplanes (For Folks Sake, Download.)
2. Here we come a wassailing - Kate Rusby
3. You never come home for Christmas - Catilin Rose and Keegan DeWitt
4. O little town of Bethlehem - Belle and Sebastian
5. The Man with the bag - Vonda Shepherd 
6. I saw mummy kissing Santa clause - Jane Krakowski
7. Sister Winter - Sufjan Stevens
8. River - Joni Mitchell
9. Baby Its Cold Outside - Johnny Mercer and Margaret Whiting
10. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Salwa Azar 
11. Drummer Boy 

October/November Mixcast.

Waaahoooo!
My monthy mixcast is back thank's to about 5 minutes googeling to find an alternative site to mediafire.
This is a mixcast I made early October I think, its mostly acoustic from what I remember, but entirely brilliant too. It's a short but sweet podcast both happy and sad.


Tracks are as follows:


Laura Marling - Night after Night
Bon Iver - Beth/Rest found on NPR's World Cafe - (Found via Julez.)
Tokyo Police Club - Tessellate
Paul Simon - Me and Julio Down by the School Yard.
Sufjan Stevens - The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!
Of Montreal - Lysergic Bliss


Find it here: The password is 4trewinnardluc
http://d01.megashares.com/dl/7e7ac49/October.mp3
Find my other podcasts here:
http://introspectivewritinginoldham.blogspot.com/p/mixcasts_01.html
God bless and sweet listening, L x

Luke 1:37

I hate to think that I spend too much of my time blogging about God's input into my life but he's doing some mint stuff in London.. and I wanted to tell you guys a story. (Also, mum wanted me to email it to her so she could tell her friends.)

I've been going to a church called St. Mary's just a couple of minutes away from my halls which I'm quite sure I've blogged about a couple of times. On Tuesday night a friend from the student group rocked up to the front to share a bit of something that's been going on with her lately.

Basically, Christina has been suffering with a heart issue for a while now from what I gather it's something to do with her heart valves shrinking. She got put onto the priority heart transplant list sometime this year and had to get a heart within 6 month or, well.. you know. For the last however long she's been suffering what she described as "mini heart attacks" regularly.

After a weekend away with the church last weekend ) and what was sounds to me like a classic "holy spirit" night she rocked up to the doctors on Monday morning as usual for her check ups. When her numbers weren't reading as they usually would the doctor decided to do a scan. It was then she found out that her heart is in mint condition - to the extent she's been taken off the heart transplant list all together. There now fails to be a problem with her heart,  - boom.

Not only the best news ever, but the coolest.

Thought each and everyone of you should know about this. I genuinely can't stop telling people.

Peace,

God Bless, L x

This welcome has been so nice and warm.

What with all my cycling I've got into the habit of going out without my oyster card. I'm currently sat at a bus stop clutching my £10 waiting for the number 10 to make my way to Oxford Circus.

I've not had a particularly good week, in fact, it's probably been the week I've worked hardest since getting here after making the mistake of doing no work on reading week (a mistake that I'm sure nearly all of you readers bace made.) Despite this, I'm feeling mint... yes. There is no other word for it, I'm feeling, as we say in the north: mint.

Tomorrow I make my long coach journey home for the first time since coming to uni, I'm excited to see my friends, to see my mum and dad, To see Manchester, drink mulled wine and go to church but mostly, I kinda just want to see my house. And man, what a mint weekend I have planned too. I've done a good amount of work this week so I feel fine in celebrating.

I'm on my way now to the Carnaby Street shopping party: 20% off, live music and goodie bags! I'm actually going with no money to shop with but I heard rumours of free drinks and hopefully my brother will get me something which I can pay him back for at a later date.

London is dark these days. I can no longer cycle through the park home and I'm in dire need of reflective clothing.

If I were driving this bus it would be like playing Need for Speed underground 2.

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It's very nearly Christmas.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7EwLvvxbYI&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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Lots of love and good tidings, L x

Skinny Love.

Paul Michael Graham and Stephen Bick.
Filmed by New Jerseys own Julia Molnar. "Skinny Love"

Couple of piccys.

Treat your teachers nice and find a healthy appetite.

Before I moved to London, I downloaded two albums from a band called "The Milk Carton Kids" which I'd read about on NPR. Both albums are great and I recommend you all download them off their site (for free) here.

My favourite song "Charlie" is off the first album "Retrospect." I read somewhere that the lead singer wrote it about the daughter that he doesn't have. It's one of the sweetest songs I've ever heard and quickly made it into my iTunes most played list when I first moved here 'cause it reminded me of my dad, especially when I was walking too and from uni on my own.

I also listened to Key 103 using my Tune In app. If ever I want to feel like I'm at home, Key 103 does the job. I'm not sure if that's sad? - of course, I only listened to the morning show because after you've listened to Mike and Chelsea then none of the other DJ's really compare.

[I wait for a comment from Piekos about Matt Spokes being a mint DJ soon.] [[Sorry to people who don't really care about my references to Manchester life]]

I like Uni. I seem to feel more settled every week, It's like I wont ever be done meeting new people and making new friends. Socialising feels tedious at times but essential. I don't ever want to have no one to turn to, It's nice having my brothers here and what not but I don't really have that one person (in halls) that I can turn to yet - or at least I did but she's leaving on Tuesday for good.

[I realise I write that in a very selfish way, but that's only because I'm going to miss Naomi a lot. She's been a gooden over the last couple of months and it sucks that she's leaving for everyone. I'm quite sure we'll keep in touch, big up my gal in room 51.]

This is the most I've used square brackets since the age of the "Scene kid" when I was about 13/4 and everyone who was anyone wrote with square brackets.

The past week has been reading week. Admittedly, the little reading I did manage to achieve was not focused towards my studies, but rather 3 short stories we read at a book club some friends from Koi have started. I have, rather than study, been focusing greatly on my road skills - what with my new bike, hanging out with friends and making a dent in my over draft.

- I'm in desperate need of a Job. -

I'm going home next weekend for Blue Coats speech night. It'll be the first time I've gone home since arriving here. I can't wait to see people more than anything. It's rare that I really miss home, it's usually the same times where I start blogging that I feel like I miss home, and when I try and find cinema times and it alway's comes up with the times for Oldham. But it will certainly be nice to hang out in Scouthead.


Anyway.

I have exciting things for my blog coming up:

A new music player (via 8 tracks.)
Some album/film reviews.
Photos, drawings, videos. - This will be once I get a camera.
Blog topics.

It's all a work in progress.

God Bless, L x

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I seem to be really poor on the blogging front this academic year. 

I have an app on my phone for when I want to write something down to post but I never finish them, so my dashboard is full of half empty posts which seemed important for 10 minutes but when I came back to them have little content. Eventually, its only times when I can't sleep or I'm stuck in my room putting off work I ever really blog or journal at all. 

Edgware Road Celebrations:

I think I might have mentioned in my first post on IWIL that I live just off Edgware Road, which is the Arabic district of London basically, its quite similar to Rusholme for all you Mancunians, except.. more Arab and less Indian.

On my way home from tonight's Koi meeting I could hear some crazy chants coming from the street. Loud loud stuff. It wasn't till I got home tonight that I realised why (stupid me..) Unfortunately I didn't quite get to see what was going but some of the people in my halls got video's of it.

I guess, like the Bin Laden situation which I think I might have blogged abut on IWIO at the time, I don't really know how to feel about the death of Gaddafi, it is however exciting to see all the Lybian's celebrating, and rather hard not to feel happy for them.

....I'm stuck for feelings right now. Anyway, pretty wild times on Edgware Road tonight:

http://youtu.be/csbw9DhWS7E

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/20/muammar-gaddafi-dies-city-birth?newsfeed=true

Everything I am for your Kingdom&apos;s cause.

Dear Friends,

Term started officially last week. This means I find myself heading over to Hight Street Kensington 3 days a week for a a few hours of lectures, lunch and sleeping on friends beds between class. I'm not going to lie, I probably have one of the easiest timetables going (rest assured mother, if you're reading this, I'm still doing lots of work.)

I feel like I should be blogging about the new and exciting stuff I'm doing in London, sadly, I don't seem to be doing much. I mean, I've done a fair amount (yet not nearly most) of the gallery and museums, I've use borris bikes regularly, I have evening lessons, I've been to a comedy nights, done the markets, I'm going to a philosophical debate (Does God Exist?) by leading Philosophers, become a lab rat for a behavioural research lab, pondered Kensington's Babylon Roof Gardens and in about 20 minutes I'm going to set off to the South Bank centre for the Autumn Cheese and Wine festival - Why not, I have a oyster card and the whole of London to explore.

But right now it doesn't feel enough.

A friend of mine asked me last week: "What is it you want to do in London?" I gave the standard reply - "erm, study, obviously." He went on to tell me about why he wanted to move to London, it was/is more to him that just a place to study but somewhere he can develop his passion. This was, it seemed to me, wishful thinking. Like an actor or actress going to LA thinking it's the place to start their movie career. Even so, I was quite envious of his ambition and he's hardly known for his "ambition." Something about London excites be, but I still feel like I'm not using the city I my advantage yet.

In an attempt to try and write more positively, I'm happy to inform you that I have found myself surrounded by people that I feel more than comfortable with, in halls, in Uni and outside. Which is something that I'm definitely grateful for. When I didn't get into Manchester, I wasn't too upset and that's because it seemed, and continues to seem quite clear to me that it was a "divine intervention."In the months coming up to choosing a university, choosing a course, cancelling my gap year and results day, I found myself constantly in and asking for prayer about what it is that God wants me to do, and where he wants me to do it. So, when results day finally came around, I didn't mind too much that I wasn't going to be spending my next  3 years in Manchester. I'm still trying to work out why God put me in London. I've spent the past few weeks trying new churches and trying to find a Christian community. Which I think has successfully been done in Koinonia and St Mary's.

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The above was written 8 days ago.

Since then there has been no real change in my feelings towards my Church aspects to my life in London but on Tuesday I went to the Student meeting at St Mary's, and other than indulging in some quality Eaton Mess I had a really sweet night waiting on God and a couple of people had some words for me that I needed to hear so much and I am at ease with not knowing what's going to happen, who I'm going to be friends with and how I cope because it's all in Gods hands. Since Tuesday, which was like two days ago, I have felt a lot more comfortable with being here, I like the people I live with, I like the people I'm at uni with, I have a mint Christian fellowship and, y'kno.. I'm in London, which, though I love Manchester with all of my heart, is a definite improvement on Oldham.

Happy Days.

God Bless, L x

Welcome Welcome Welcome.

Hello dear friends, foes and readers, both new and old.


I have finally gotten round to starting a new blog, a "sister blog" some may say to my old "Introspective Writing In Oldham" (which if you're a new reader/friend then feel free to give it a quick glance.)


I have been In London for just over a week now, I've moved into Nutford House Intercollegiate Halls and officially enrolled at Heythrop College, University of London. My experience so far has been good, if a little average at times but I'm feeling positive that it will get better as my time in London goes on.


Heythrop for those of you that hadn't heard of it before my last post on IWIO is a small college of the University of London.. Like, really small. Which I guess has its ups and downs, everyone seems pretty close nit which is really nice and the people are all lovely, I'm quite sure come this time next year most people will know each other. On the other hand it feels a little like a sixth form and freshers, for someone living off the campus feels a little tame, though I have been assured that people have been going out a fair bit from the campus halls. Either way I'm looking forward to my time there and have my first lecture (New Testement Greek) on Monday which I am super excited about. 


Thankfully, though I'm living off campus I have met some pretty sweet people from Heythrop (big up Nishat; who's an avid fan of my other blog which she explained when we first met.. haha, and Vardy enthusiast Georgia.) And also found everyone at Nutford to be really nice and up for going out quite a bit which is always good especially living off campus, again, I'm pretty sure by the end of the year we'll all know each other and stuff. Nutford house is also just of Edgewear Rd which is Arab central of London so it's packed with Shisha Cafes and Arab restaurants, it's really cool and so central. 


This is really just my intro blog, so I'll do another with a bit more later in the week. I am however sad to say that due to my internet restrictions at my halls Media Fire which I was previously using to host the monthly mixcasts is banned, so until I find a new file sharing site which is allowed then my mixcasts will not be updating. 


And so I leave you with pictures of my room (on request) and will hopefully keep you all updated with life, music, general blogging and of course, #churchtrials. 


God Bless, L x

draws.. messy bed. heythrop freshers t-shirt

desk.. book shelf, window.

bookshelf. Jungle Speed, Photos. Tea Bags. Vodka. Standard.

Bed. Posters. Timetable.


I also have a sink, but the picture had me in it in the mirror...