8.00am - Woke up
As usual, my brothers, my sister and I dive into my parents room to wake them up and make them let us go downstairs so we can see if Father Christmas (lol) has brought us anything... And obviously he always has because we are such good little children, and here I am not speaking for my annoying brothers, just for me and my wonderful big sister whom I love because she is fabulous and lets me borrow her make-up, hair products and clothes. My mum and dad make us croissants with butter and jam and hot chocolate, and then we rush upstairs to change into our Christmas morning outfits.
9.00am - Presents time ... yeyyy!!!
Our parents always open their presents first, because we open them in order of age, so I always open mine second to last! This year, I got my mum a beautiful pair of Christian Louboutin shoes and a black sequined bag from Accessorize, and my dad a Top Gear Challenges DVD and a cool Homer Simpson cookie jar (because he broke the one I got him last year - it was a Cyberman one) filled with luxury truffles and chocolates from Thorntons. I got my older brother a Richard Hammond autobiography and a Manchester United calender. For my younger brother, I bought a Led Zeppelin tee-shirt (he is getting into the rock/metal phase like me and my older siblings...stealing all our CDs much to the annoyance of my brother, who went beserk when he found out that Johnny had taken his favourite Led Zeppelin CD to school with him for after the October break - he had to bring it back on the exeat though as Harry threatened to murder him if he didn't!) and the Led Zeppelin CD he stole from Harry. And finally, for Grace I bought a Fall Out Boy poster (she is madly in love with Pete Wentz - can't say I see the attraction meself) and a fab set of strawberry-scented products from The Body Shop. All-in-all, I was proud of the things I bought, as once again I managed to get things which, with the exception of the Led Zeppelin tee-shirt and the Fall Out Boy poster and the Manchester United calender, I can also use!!
11.00am - Staring lovingly at the face of Ian Watkins
I am completely in love with the poster my wonderful, adorable, fantasic, brilliant, lovely, kind, amazing sister has bought me! A Lostprophets poster, which means Ian Watkins is on it, and I love Ian Watkins. Not as much as my future husband Nicholas Hoult, may I add, but a lot at any rate. Speaking of Nicholas Hoult, I got the Skins box set from my parents too. Plus loaaaads of other amazing presents! I am currently listening to the Led Zeppelin CD, which my brother worships me for buying, Harry I mean, not Johnny...who loves it even so. Harry worships me because now Johnny won't steal his CD!
3.00pm - In the car
I am on the way to my Auntie Rose's house. She lives just outside Oxford, and my family are spending Christmas there this year. We alternate each year. I love going to Auntie Rose's house, which is a huge old farmhouse surrounded by land and she has a huge stables with loads of horses. I am wearing a white knee-length vintage dress with black tights and black ballet pumps. I love the dress and I've had it for over a year now, I got it from a fab little shop in London, and it's beautiful! We are all singing along to madly cheesy Christmas songs, which we always play in the car ride to whoever's house we are going to for Christmas. It's cheesy, but looooaaaaadddddsssssss of fun!!
7.15pm - Foooooddddd....
Turkey has to be one of the best meals ever! I'm stuffed now! Me and my underage siblings and cousins have polished off four large chocolate gateaux between us (well, there are 16 of us, so we've had a quarter of a gateau each), and the of age siblings, cousins and other adults have polished of numerous amounts of sherry trifle. We have all had a glass of champagne, as is tradition, but for us underage lot, that is the limit to our alcohol consumption today :( lol. We move to the lounge for a selection of cheesy games that one can get away with playing on family get-togethers!
12.00am - Tucked up
We got back about 15mins ago, and I collapsed in bed as soon as I'd finished taking off my make-up, clothes, washing my face and brushing my teeth. I'm about a whisker from sleep, but Christmas day is over now... boo hoo :(
Saturday, 19 January 2008
Saturday 24th November
8.00am - Snuggled up in bed with Bob the Bear
I'm all nice and comfy cosy now, wrapped up in my pale blue quilt with white flowers. Bob the Bear, my snuggly teddy bear is in my hand. Amelie is cuddling Fred the Ted, her bear, and Georgie will need to have her hand amputated if she is to be parted with Henry Horse! Housie comes knocking on our door, making sure we are awake as the bell has just gone. We all get up, wash ourselves and dress in our school clothes. We have prep to do all Saturday morning, and then the rest of the weekend is ours to do as we please. Except for one hour on Sundays when we have to go to the church and pray.
12.34pm - Sat on the lawns eating a cheese and ham toastie
It's absolutely freeezing cold and Jaz and co. have decided they'll drag me outside on the lawns at the front of our school to eat the lunch we got from the dining hall three minutes ago. Prep starts at 9.00am sharp and finishes at 12.00pm sharp. If we're not there on time, as soon as the final bell goes (we get a warning bell five minutes before 9.00 and then a final bell at 9.00), we get a Prep Detention, which means we have to stay in all Saturday, so no going out at night! Now we're in Year Eleven, we get to stay out until 10.00pm on Fridays and Saturdays, and 9.00 on Sundays. We're not really allowed out any other days because we have to do 2 hours of Prep, and we have to report to our 'Prep room', so if we have any extra-curricular activities after school, we'll do prep after dinner.
But anyway, back to now. I'm bundled up in my fingerless gloves (so I can eat my cheese and ham toastie without getting grease on my gloves or fluff on my toastie), a warm woolly scarf, a bobble hat which comes over my ears and my thick furry-hooded black coat. My friends are similarly wrapped up, and eating everything from soup and a roll (Georgie) to hot dogs smothered in tomato ketchup (Luce). And we're all discussing what we're going to do after lunch.
1.57pm - Riding
Jess and I have decided to do some schooling (I mean the horse-riding version!!). Jess gets her favourite horse, Cookie - a big brown mare with a white stripe, and I saddle Red and we go into the arena. I've ridden Red every Saturday afternoon since I've been here, either in the school or out hacking or doing some show-jumping. During the week, Jess and I and some of our other pony-mad friends, have had lessons from one of H's fabulous instructors. I know I'll definitely make the Senior team this year again!!!
7.00pm - Out on the town - figuratively!
Me and the girls have spent the last 20mins glamming ourselves up ready to hit the town. Holly and some of our other day girl mates have arranged to meet us by the cinema too, and so we're all looking our best as we head into town. I love my outfit: black jeans, black Converse hi-tops, white smock-top thingy cinched with a wide black belt and black bangles. And my hair is wavy and in a messy ponytail. We meet everyone and decide which film we are watching, grab loaaaads of food and drink and pile into the screen in a mad bundle of long-haired, long-limbed, shrieking girls... Fun times =p
10.00pm - Back, just
We dash inside the school gates just as the bells from the town church sing for 10pm. It's been a good night and we're all hyper from laughing so much! We're all full too, we had huge bags of sweets and popcorn which we were constantly sharing out, as well as giant drinks of Coke and slushes. We always eat waay too much at the cinema lol. We all collect in Jaz's room for the hour-and-a-half we have left until Lights Out, talking about our night and playing music on Jaz's laptop.
11.30pm - Snoozing peacefully
Me, Amelie and Georgie are talking quietly, waiting for Housie to turn out the lights. When Housie does come in, she gets us to say our prayers (the Lord's Prayer) and then turns out the lights, and shuts the door on the bright corridor.
I'm all nice and comfy cosy now, wrapped up in my pale blue quilt with white flowers. Bob the Bear, my snuggly teddy bear is in my hand. Amelie is cuddling Fred the Ted, her bear, and Georgie will need to have her hand amputated if she is to be parted with Henry Horse! Housie comes knocking on our door, making sure we are awake as the bell has just gone. We all get up, wash ourselves and dress in our school clothes. We have prep to do all Saturday morning, and then the rest of the weekend is ours to do as we please. Except for one hour on Sundays when we have to go to the church and pray.
12.34pm - Sat on the lawns eating a cheese and ham toastie
It's absolutely freeezing cold and Jaz and co. have decided they'll drag me outside on the lawns at the front of our school to eat the lunch we got from the dining hall three minutes ago. Prep starts at 9.00am sharp and finishes at 12.00pm sharp. If we're not there on time, as soon as the final bell goes (we get a warning bell five minutes before 9.00 and then a final bell at 9.00), we get a Prep Detention, which means we have to stay in all Saturday, so no going out at night! Now we're in Year Eleven, we get to stay out until 10.00pm on Fridays and Saturdays, and 9.00 on Sundays. We're not really allowed out any other days because we have to do 2 hours of Prep, and we have to report to our 'Prep room', so if we have any extra-curricular activities after school, we'll do prep after dinner.
But anyway, back to now. I'm bundled up in my fingerless gloves (so I can eat my cheese and ham toastie without getting grease on my gloves or fluff on my toastie), a warm woolly scarf, a bobble hat which comes over my ears and my thick furry-hooded black coat. My friends are similarly wrapped up, and eating everything from soup and a roll (Georgie) to hot dogs smothered in tomato ketchup (Luce). And we're all discussing what we're going to do after lunch.
1.57pm - Riding
Jess and I have decided to do some schooling (I mean the horse-riding version!!). Jess gets her favourite horse, Cookie - a big brown mare with a white stripe, and I saddle Red and we go into the arena. I've ridden Red every Saturday afternoon since I've been here, either in the school or out hacking or doing some show-jumping. During the week, Jess and I and some of our other pony-mad friends, have had lessons from one of H's fabulous instructors. I know I'll definitely make the Senior team this year again!!!
7.00pm - Out on the town - figuratively!
Me and the girls have spent the last 20mins glamming ourselves up ready to hit the town. Holly and some of our other day girl mates have arranged to meet us by the cinema too, and so we're all looking our best as we head into town. I love my outfit: black jeans, black Converse hi-tops, white smock-top thingy cinched with a wide black belt and black bangles. And my hair is wavy and in a messy ponytail. We meet everyone and decide which film we are watching, grab loaaaads of food and drink and pile into the screen in a mad bundle of long-haired, long-limbed, shrieking girls... Fun times =p
10.00pm - Back, just
We dash inside the school gates just as the bells from the town church sing for 10pm. It's been a good night and we're all hyper from laughing so much! We're all full too, we had huge bags of sweets and popcorn which we were constantly sharing out, as well as giant drinks of Coke and slushes. We always eat waay too much at the cinema lol. We all collect in Jaz's room for the hour-and-a-half we have left until Lights Out, talking about our night and playing music on Jaz's laptop.
11.30pm - Snoozing peacefully
Me, Amelie and Georgie are talking quietly, waiting for Housie to turn out the lights. When Housie does come in, she gets us to say our prayers (the Lord's Prayer) and then turns out the lights, and shuts the door on the bright corridor.
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