The day I met Lily Allen

It's been a funny old day..

the main plan was to spend time with my friend Lucy. I'd not hung out with her for quite a while so it was really nice to catch up and have a laugh.

after some food from The Glasshouse we walked down to Anglia Square and had a look around the shops.

when she left I walked around the city kinda aimlessly! having a lot of free time is a little daunting because I find boredom often quickly leads to depression.

I have written a list of things I want to do though..

Start learning drums.

Write a short story and develop it into a small comic book to give to friends.

Take my brother to see The Kabeedies for his 18th birthday.

Watch Planet Earth with my Mum.

Meet Dyson for a Subway.

Go eat a meal at Pulse (£6.25 student meal in the week!)

Finally sort out my room!

Read The Bell Jar.

when I got home I started to feel a bit strange so I thought I'd go for a walk around Postwick.

now the weathers getting a bit nicer I want to go for more walks..maybe for longer with a bit less of a plan of where I'm going.

my friend Joe is back from Wales for a few days and has a boat in Brundall..I ended up walking to the marina and hanging out there for a couple hours.

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I love the late evening and early morning

...everything feels calm

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This is the start.

"these feelings cant be bought
memories forever shared
one day this will end
but im not scared
no i'm not scared"

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People who call me "Where's Wally" in a snide way =

...scum!

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This is NOT rubbish, please do not throw away! thankyou!

Today was the last day of uni for Easter...we were told to clearly label anything that we didn't want throwing away because a mass clean up is going to happen over the holiday!

Isabel and Matthew thought it would be funny to label really obvious things that wouldn't even be considered to be thrown out! it was pretty damn funny to me!

I wonder how the cleaners are going to take it!

It turned into a little project of theirs! they found every blue chair in the studio, lined them up and wrote little notes asking politely NOT to throw them away! except for one which said "you can throw this one away!"

after all the hard work ..we decided to chill in the s.u bar!

these two are so much fun to be around! really ace friends! cheers guys!

p.s check out their blog! (http://klubbclub.blogspot.com/)

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I miss you more than anything.

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Stay What You Are

"Despair can ravage you if you turn your head around to look down the path that's led you here, cause what can you change? You're a vessel now floating down the waterways"-Saves The Day

Mr Cupcakes

If you've never heard of Johnny Cupcakes..

check him out- http://www.johnnycupcakes.com/

a guy who sells stuff with cupcakes on it..I find his view on work incredibly inspiring and I love the shirts he makes!

when I got my first JC shirt I felt like a kid on Christmas morning! it fit like a dream, came in cupcake wrapping paper, with a sweet and a collectable card!

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Letters, "Dreamboat" & Good times..

"You made my life worth it, gave me what I need to feel all this love, all this life-and I know you know this, but I just happened to have the chance to scream it loud to everyone. Thank you for every night, every ride, all that change I borrowed and never paid, every fight, all the things unsaid. You weren't always perfect, but you never wanted me to be anything but me, and every time you played like kids, thanks for showing me that it's great to live this life. Even when you're all grown up, and every year brings another tear, that the laughter never has to fade. And you can't always change what you hate, you can't always throw your hate away, but you can always find something you love"

-Close-Knit...by Death Is Not Glamorous

The last few days have been the most difficult to face in a long time but through it all I feel very thankful for all the good times and amazing people I have in my life..

I keep thinking back about the start of the year and I realise how much I've grown in such a short time from my relationship with her ("the girl")

Something that really scares me at the moment is falling into inescapable depression and taking everything I love in my life for granted (I end up not wanting to do anything, which I don't consider living).

Despite all the sadness and wanting more than anything to relive those amazing memories I wouldn't trade them for anything..(I've told her this but I can't thank her enough for those times).

I read some words that have helped.."Don't be afraid to take chances in life"

if it wasn't for applying that attitude on the 10th of January 09 I probably wouldn't have asked her out and started our relationship together.

This might be a bit of a boring sentimental break up blog but it feels important to me....I often dislike reading declarations of love written on the internet because something like that feels far too important..but I'm not writing this to complain about anything...now I realise I can't blame people for doing that! you should let the important people in your life know how you feel!

I hope this means something to the girl I'm writing about but also to other people too...that from reading this other people remember to be thankful for the important stuff in life that can be too easily taken for granted.

Life is too great to waste! I'd rather face the dark times and enjoy the good than have a boring life. It's up to me to carry on living the best I can!

I thought I might be overwhelmed by bitter emotions after breaking up but she's honestly one of the best friends I have in my life and I want us both to be happy.

once again thankyou.

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truck stop blues

Saturday..Sunday..

Monday..

I miss her.

(listening to New Found Glory, Alkaline Trio and City & Colour)

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(credit to William Downes for the second photograph).

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Met up with Mum for lunch!

Alice bought me a happy meal!

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The last few days in photos..

Picnic blogging..

bike riding..
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"I'd rather grow roses, than nurture self pity"

-Charles Bukowski

Felt a bit down today, like a bout of low self esteem has crept up on me.

I started to get in one of those uninspired moods and people managed to agitate me easily

..for example people who obviously take the piss and pricks who drive cars stupidly fast

(not everyone annoyed me, it was seeing some people that kept my spirits up)

I've been told how bad my grammer is so I've tried my best not to use an exclamation mark after every sentence in this blog

I think I sound like a idiot when I write anything anyway but I hope not everyone thinks so

(maybe I just should have kept this blog to myself)

on another note I bought a new hat today, it's a dark green Brixton hat from Drift

"May you never eat your hat if you go hungry"

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The past couple days have been nice...on friday I was asked to wake up bright and early to take this photo of my brother (who was dressed as Harry Hill for Comic Relief) before he went to school..good work kid!

I made my way to uni for a lecture on essay writing (not fun but a little helpful!) and to do add some drawing to the collaboration!

at one point I was trying to find the end of a roll of sellotape while walking back to my studio space to carry on working on it and I fell over!

it was a pretty epic fall! it was one of those moments when you need a second to take in what just happened! after that I just laughed for ages! falling over just reminds me of being a little kid! to be fair the studio is a bit of a deathtrap at the moment! with saws around and an assault course of chairs! it was bound to happen at some point! however I don't have any scars or bruises to show off! I feel a little disappointed!

but getting back to the collab..it's looking ace!

Dyson stayed over.. "it was nice!" she reminded me what an ace film Amelie is...not to mention the soundtrack! Yann Tierson is a legend!
today we had a lazy day! I usually dislike lazy days however it was nice to spend it with her! we also saw Adam and Ryan in Borders which was cool! Adam crept up on me a bit while I was reading a tattoo magazine, the joker!



work tomorrow...I'm going to try to make the best of it x

JAMIE OLIVER BIG FAT CHOPPING BOARD

Britters finished her Brighton hanging photo project, it looks rad!
Matthew awaited a haircut



I tried on a dress and grew breasts


Siobhan added some stuff to the collaboration..my mum has asked for a huge collaborative drawing for our living room which she wants to frame..I'm doing it bit by bit (sticking sheets of paper together) I think it's the best and quickest way for it to get done! I carry the paper around and pester people to draw on it...whatever they want! she's looking after it right now as she hadn't finished when I had to leave uni..

hopefully she hasn't ruined it...(only joking!)

Met up with Dyson and she treated me to a cake (what a legend!)

we saw Joe outside TieRack! today he was a bit angry about having to clean up someone else's sick and general broken arm stuff! I stood and listened to him talk about disliking tracksuits and how Trash Talk shirts help you avoid charity workers!

he bought the mask for the polaroid/animal shindig going on this evening! after a bit of convincing he posed for this photo..he might be a miserable old man sometimes but I do like Joe! he puts on shows sometimes with Lea!

www.myspace.com/runawayspresents

Today I listened to...Fionn Regan, Rolo Tomassi & Dead Swans

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Bloggington

Today was good fun! after having a bit of a lie in this morning the first stop I made when I got into the city was Sendol!

for those that haven't heard of Sendol it's a nice little "independently owned clothing boutique in the heart of Norwich" down Pottergate...it's very near Drift which is also a very good skate shop!
I really love little shops like these! they have such awesome character not to mention really friendly people working there! they feel very unique and special!

I myself work at Boots which I can't complain about because the staff I work with are also very kind and down to earth! the only thing is I can feel a like a robot working on the tills..sometimes you get nice customers or those that seem really cold and seem to refuse to smile! I guess you'd get that in any shop!

but after visiting the shops on Pottergate they have inspired a little dream to one day open a nice little shop of my own! I don't know what I'd sell or if it'll even happen! but it's an idea I'm going to continue thinking about!

if you want check out those shops I mentioned!

http://www.sendol.co.uk/
http://www.driftskateshop.com/

getting back to my day! Sendol have some new Kid Robot stuff in! I was pretty stoked to buy one of the "Ye Old English" Dunny's and I wasn't disappointed with the one I got either!

below my good friend Adam is displaying my new Dunny on his drink! it's always a pleasure to have a chat with this man!

he also has some massive Tado Kidrobot toys in which I'm really tempted to get at some point!

next I planned to go get my lunch from Amaretto on St Georges street however I was tempted to hang out with Isabel and Matthew Fergulberry! we went to the market...they both picked up lamb burger (I think) from a place called Tony's...we met Tony (apparently!) he seemed like a top bloke anyway! go visit him too if you enjoy lamb Burgers!

We saw a little fenced off area..need I say more about what happened! I spent most of the day with my eyes open for blog worthy opportunities like this!

Had my lunch of potato and black pudding with a walnut cake from afters! I didn't enjoy it that much but I think it's because I'm a bit immature with my eating! Dyson was shocked because I'm very unadventurous with food! to be fair the caramel cake I had yesterday was tough to beat! the walnut cake didn't stand much chance! but still it wasn't as bad as I make it sound!

after my lunch I decided to make Mr Barber a card for his 20th birthday! if you see him around be sure to wish him a belated birthday and a quick recovery for his arm! he'll need it back in good shape for his next stage diving antics!

on the front was a photo of him in a human pyramid with some people he didn't actually know at the Death Is Not Glamourous show! which can be seen here...http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamouychopping/3233370949/

I met up with my girlfriend Alice (Dyson), we went to see Lea and wish Joe a Happy Birthday..they were going to see The Watchman (pretty excited about seeing that film soon!)

the meeting was quick but it was nice to see them anyway and they both seemed to be in a good mood! (despite Lea telling off Joe for eating the popcorn before the film!)

we then went for a meal at Pizza Express and used our two for one voucher! I had an American Hot while Alice had a Pollo Verdure salad!

post meal texting..

This is the spicy mess left which I couldn't eat! it was hot but mighty good! we finished off the meal with a shared chocolate fudge cake..no photo but take my word for it..it was ace!

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"Welcome destruction with open arms.."

"...we're rising up from ashes"

Hail Destroyer-Cancer Bats

man I love that band!

"A man who is master of himself can end sorrow as easily as he can invent pleasure"

"I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions"

The Picture of Dorian Gray-Oscar Wilde

Assessment Day

Had my assessment at uni today..I was a bit nervous but no more than usual with any type of public speaking..once I got over my first couple moments of being unable to express myself I started to enjoy it! I had a little list of things I wanted to say but I didn't really need it in the end!

The photo below is a piece of work I started yesterday..the more I progressed with this one the less I liked it..the face in particular...I wasn't feeling it!

I had another go today and I feel way more pleased with it now! (it's getting there!) I'm trying to include some words by Bukowski in there too (inside the hourglass maybe)

This was my set up for the assessment

Later I had a snooze in my friend Isabel's space she made for her project!