{NEW FAVOURITE//THE GIVERS/UP UP UP}

This is a song I kept on hearing everywhere and just loving, having no idea who sings it but wishing I did. Whilst I was in Gilly Hicks in London with my sister they were playing it again so I decide I had to beaver away online to try and find it because I was sure once I found the one song, I was bound to love the rest of the album and I was exactly right! Such a cool, cute and happy band with some really good songs but this one is still my overall favourite. It's so happy, it cheers me up every time I listen to it! 

{RADIO ONE HACKNEY WEEKEND}

Last weekend, I went to Radio One's Hackney Weekend and it was amazing, getting to see Rihanna live for free, who would not love that?! Originally there was a possibility I wouldn't be going as  because of the silly ticket system my sister and myself ended up with one ticket for Saturday and one for Sunday, aka Larrys. Luckily my sister managed to find a friend to go with and one of my sister's lovely friends took me under her wing and I went along and hung out with her and some friends. I'm so glad I made the decision to go in the end, because it was incredible and so worth it. Firstly we saw a little bit of Westwood's DJ set, literally some of the things he comes out with are just hilarious. Then we headed for food and took shelter from the pouring rain whilst we had a delish cheeseburger, and checked out who we wanted to see next.We ended up seeing Professor Green - hot, Ben Howard who was beautiful as ever, Azealia Banks and her song 212 which was so good and a bit of Labrinth and Jessie J. 

We grabbed some noodles for dinner and sat and listened to Florence + the Machine and prepared ourselves for the final headliners, hoping to get a good spot in the crowd for the rest of the night. When we found out Dizzee Rascal was the special guest we hastily made our way into the crowd hoping to get a good spot, excited for him to begin. As expected he was on top form and played all the classics which was so good and got us so hyped for Rihanna.

After waiting patiently for nearly an hour, watching the stage crew set up an amazing egyptian stage, Rihanna finally came on and it was just amazing from there on out. We literally sang and danced along the whole way through and she put on such a show, and even Jay-Z came on stage for four songs which was insane. The best song had to be Umbrella because the atmosphere was just incredible. Only in England would most people in the crowd have an umbrella to hand, and up they went and the whole crowd the covered in dancing umbrella, the atmosphere and vibe literally couldn't have been any better. Such a good end to an brill day and I'm so glad I decided to go in the end as otherwise I would have missed out big time!

{SUMMER HOLIDAYS//CYPRUS}

I recently got back from being on holiday with my family in Cyprus. When it comes to family holidays, they are the ultimate in relaxation as we pretty much don't do anything. Well other than eat, read and sunbathe, perfect combination right? By the end of the holiday, I had made my way through an absolute stack of books and eaten more bags of crisps than it bears thinking about. After so much hype, I decided to  read The Hunger Games trilogy whilst I was away and I was absolutely hooked. Some nights I stayed up really late like a right nerd reading it because I literally couldn't put it down, so as you might have guessed, I definitely would recommend it! We went out for dinner a couple of times which was lovely, Scampi being my dish of choice which was absolutely delish, and when we weren't eating out, my mum was cooking up a storm in the kitchen, making all sorts of yummy Greek dishes. On one of the days we decided to rent out a speedboat from the port and it was so much fun. We did a little tour of the island and Rosie popped in the water for a little dip, although we did struggle a fair bit trying to get her back in the boat again! I tried my hand at steering the boat and despite being quite excited, it's actually quite boring, but good nonetheless! By the end of the holiday we were ready to take our newly tanned, very mosquito bitten and extremely well read selves back to rainy old England and most importantly, back to our well missed friends.