First stop, the farm shop! Mmmm!

This looks like the perfect tree for an epic tree house to me!

I know kid, I want my own herd of goats too!

I thought it was so cool that this little girl was wearing a Superman shirt with attached cape, Supergirl knows what’s up!

Time to visit the butterfly house which was so humid it steamed up my camera lens, luckily mom had a glasses cleaning cloth, mom to the rescue!

Here are a couple Vine videos I shot of a few of the butterflies  I felt like paparazzi chasing them around!

Kid’s getting fishing lessons

Time for a walk through the woods!

A group of young guys were building dens in the forest, so wanted to give it a go!

Loved the rabbit warren and I’m sure they do too!

Look at it’s little squidgin face! It looks like a toy it’s so cute!

Paid a visit to the home wares store and just died over it, I wanted to either buy everything or live in it because it also smelled DIVINE! Loved this little dogs.

Decoration inspiration!

Mom adored this hen, I think I’ll get it for her as a house warming present when we move house this month.

While I liked this chicken

Loved seeing an example of a cob wood round house. When I spent a week at Lammas in Wales on the Low Impact Living Experience where Simon’s famous “hobbit house” is, I got to learn about timber framed and grass roofed houses.

A grass roof keeps the house cool and insulated and also gives back the land you take when you build a structure as well as creating a place for birds to forage. I would like for the world to green all the roofs, especially in cities.

At the farm shop we bought a couple lamb burgers, some bacon and a wedge of Cornish Wild Garlic cheese. When I lived in Cornwall I used to pick wild garlic from the hedgerows and cook with it so it’s a lovely combination with cheese.

I made a paleo inspired meal with celery and sweet potato mash, fried halloumi cheese and avocado on the grilled lamb burger patties.

We really enjoyed our trip to Jimmy’s Farm and hope to go back and eat at the restaurant there, unfortunately we were too late to sample the menu.

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The next morning I was woken up by this cuddle bud, aren’t I just the luckiest cat mom in the world?

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I’ve been taking it easy, meditating, doing some personal development, and recalibrating. I will be tweeking bits and pieces of this website and launching new things in the coming weeks that I am really excited about, so to those who have stuck with me this long, thank you very much. I am ever evolving.

So, to the good stuff!

• The music of trees: http://traubeck.com/years/ This is profound! Someone invented a record player that can read the lines in slices of tree trunk and play it as music.
• I LOVE Sarah’s list of awesome things to do this summer, so creative and inventive, and fun!
• Got Spotify and need a fresh playlist? Check out sexy Rosie from The Londoner.me‘s Summer ’13 list.
• Tired of not being able to move your music between your various or new iPhone’s, iPad’s, computers? Xilisoft lets you do it easily for less than £20.
• Don’t have Photoshop and need an easy, creative and fun photo editor and collage maker? Pic Monkey is your friend.
• Since I can hear every sound from my neighbour’s apartment below me, I’ve taken to listening to long mixes on Youtube of relaxing music. I’ve found two awesome mixes (Part 1 and Part 2) which I listen to on repeat so here are my Youtube hacks:

1. Magic Actions for Youtube Chrome plugin, let’s you use Youtube the way you want to use it.
2. Listen To Youtube, lets you download audio from Youtube videos as .mp3′s which you can then put onto your phone or iPod.

• How stress is literally killing you and how you can prevent disease from developing.
• Cancer reversing power juice. If you haven’t started juicing or blending veg and fruit yet, watch Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead and be inspired.
• Sixteen (unexpected) steps to Happiness.
• Do you yearn to develop your psychic and intuitive gifts, and discover your life’s purpose? Belinda Davidson is an intuitive healer who I admire and who has started the School of The Modern Mystic to help us realise our psychic abilities.
• I’ve been enjoying some of the interviews at the Hay House Summit and learning some great personal development tools, one which I feel is really making a difference for me and which I will talk about in it’s own post soon. Noah St John invented a twist in the usual affirmations method which I feel works so much better than repeating affirmations.

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This was my first time going to an agri show in the UK so I was quite surprised to find myself suddenly swimming in a sea of tweed coats and Hunter wellingtons.  Everyone looked ever so fancy!

The first thing I saw was this enormous but incredibly cute tractor!

But of course, the smell of food beckoned me immediately so off I went to the food tent!

I very occasionally eat meat but I would love to try some wild boar, unfortunately, I didn’t have enough cash on me to indulge so I’ll have to save it for another day.

Next on my adventure was a heavy horse contest where the judge rode each horse in turn and didn’t seem to enjoy any of them. I of course had hearts in my eyes and wanted to cuddle and ride them all!

Fine riding there Mr Judge… :-/

Look at those rumps!

I then found myself in a huge barn full of various prize winning breeds of sheep, some breeds I’d never seen before and even one I thought looked like a dog!

Woof?

I think he may have smoked too much reefer…

She looked like she was straight out of a nativity play!

And then to my delight, I came upon a farrier competition and my, my were they a sight for a sore eye!

Farrier’s Choice indeed!

Then we had a hunt display, showing the different horn sounds, what they mean and how the dogs respond. Something about that sound made me well with emotion! I loved how the dogs followed the horse and rider like ducklings do with their mother.

Lots of gentlemen were wearing bowler hats.

My kinda uniform

Time to check out the various beef breeds. I really love cows, they are such beautiful, calm beasts.

My other favourite farm animals are goats, they are such characters and I can’t wait to have my own herd one day.

Totally swooned over these stunning Hunter class horses, gosh I would love to own one, or four!

The kinds of horses you see on those paintings in rich people’s studies haha!

Ok this guy was an Australian sheep sheerer and was absolutely hilarious! He had the whole crowd gafawing with laughter and I have never seen a sheep be sheared so cleanly and quickly as he did that one.

That’s off the sheep he just sheared!

He then had them all dancing for their treats which was just too cute. Check out The Sheep Show for more details.

My camera is always finding the cutest guys…

Another hunting group competition

I don’t know why, but I really love this photo.

Tree climbing competition, I think he scaled it in 13 seconds.

My 10 year old self would have died on the spot if she saw this!

There were many well heeled country people and plenty of stalls selling them their next suit. How do I marry one of these guys?

On my way out, I passed the final display of winning animals.

Anyone who knows me knows I that I am a farm girl at heart and my dream is to have my own farm one day, hopefully a wellness farm where people can rehabilitate from their illnesses and one of the reasons why I am studying at the Institute of Integrative Nutrition.

I felt right at home at the Suffolk Show and only wish I could have been involved in some way.

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Sometimes you just need a fun night in with one of your best girlfriends, a few bottles of wine, some good food, some tubs of ice cream and a good old natter.

I had the pleasure of doing just this on the weekend and I feel so much better for it. Since I spend most of my time alone at home, I’ve decided to make more of an effort to spend time with friends and ease myself back into a social life. I’ve realised it’s not healthy to hermit myself at home all the time!

We did balance this sugar overload with a healthy Linda McCarthy veggie kiev with salad

We also got to baby sit this little explosion of fur and teeth. At first I didn’t really like her because I can’t understand why people get pets that would rather bite your face off than cuddle you, but we eventually became fast friends and had a fun time together. The ice cream was her idea!

My friend Hollie is such a freakin babe but has the worst time making decisions. This is her trying on her Air Force 1′s for the umpteen time trying to figure out if she likes them or not…

The next day we topped up the all important Vitamin D while lying in the park on a rare sunny day here in England. Little Poochie came to join as which made for this great candid shot!

Something so calming about gazing up into the arms of a beautiful tree.

I work another Nightcall Brand t shirt.

When I got home, after all that wine and ice cream, I made an epic salad. The salad above contained in the end: baby leaf greens, beetroot, carrot, cucumber, baby corn, coriander and parsley, pumpkin and chia seeds, goji berries, fried halloumi, sweet potato, flax and EVOO oil and apple cider vinegar. Holy noms! And I made a freshly juiced orange, carrot and ginger juice to go with it. I felt so much better getting back on the healthy track

I also got a rad new tshirt from Amazon which you can pick up here.

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I was fortunate enough to be given a press pass to attend The Great British Tattoo Show last weekend. Unfortunately due to unforeseen circumstances, I couldn’t stay for very long.

The tattoo show was held in Alexandra Palace which is quite a beautiful building. I was just confused as to why they decided not to have a cloak room!

There were a handful of custom cars on display.

In the end, I preferred doing some people watching shots.

Happily stumbled on well known tattooed alternative male model Jimmy Q!

What a great poster!

There were ongoing roller derby games being played on one side which I’ve never seen at a tattoo show before and while I liked the idea, the noise from the PA was very distracting.

Holli Bee‘s mister doing his thing.

Michael Carnelly getting his epic globe back tattoo finished by Dex (Derek Nelson).

Foxy lady!

The beautiful Megan Massacre.

Hunky beefcake for those who like that sort of thing

I wore my Nightcall Brand by Rik Lee t shirt and my custom DAME necklace by Tequila Star.

Did you go to the show? What did you think of it? Did you get any work done?

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This is what I found on the web this week:

• Losing weight starts with the brain, not your plate.

“in order to achieve long-term weight control you need to find healthy foods you actually enjoy eating, physical activities you like doing, and spend your time making these as convenient and accessible as possible.”

• Cats stuck in things. Hilarious.
• Finally, a women’s magazine for the thinking woman!
• Jake Ducey, 21yr old author and most inspiring kid I’ve recently discovered.

Such beauty, grace and strength, a truly stunning performance!

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I love that:

• my cat Marley is so soft to touch, is such a loveable, sweet cat, practically never meows and often has me laughing.
• he cuddles with me whenever possible and is always happy to see me when I come home after being away
• I have benefactors that love to send Me gifts and help pay for my tuition
• my bed is the cosiest, most comfortable, warm cloud of bliss and coming home to it is my favourite thing
• I can wake up whenever I want to and am not obliged to an alarm
• I can study to become an holistic health coach in a year and help people to heal their health and lives anywhere in the world
• I am always taken care of and just need to remember to relax because whenever I stress, it stops the flow, the moment I relax and let go, everything sorts itself out
• there are so many amazing healers and inspirational people out there who all have blogs and Facebook pages that I can go to every day for inspiration and enlightenment
• I have perfect health and the ability to heal myself and take care of myself
• birds singing remind me to be grateful
• sunshine puts everyone in a better mood
• music is so instrumental to healing and raising our vibrations
• I am constantly growing and learning
• I have friends all over the world
• I can ride horses
• I have an awesome bicycle to ride whenever I want
• we’re moving out of winter
• my mom has a job she wants and will be promoted soon
• my future is bright and this has been confirmed by an amazing psychic that I saw last week
• I can have my energy healed and realigned through EFT, kinesieology, crystals, meditation and reiki
• our word is so diverse
• I live on the edge of the countryside

What are you loving at the moment? What do you appreciate? How do you feel blessed? What are you thankful for? Let us know in the comments!

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Beautiful big airplane, I’m not sure I would like to actually fly in it though!

So awesome to see these old cars up close, I really wanted to get inside it, would love to know what it feels like to ride in one of the first ever cars made!

How cool is this trike!

Awesome looking dentist stand from way back when!

I would totally love to own one of these cute little cars!

I wish they still made Vespa’s in this style.

i was absolutely fascinated with this globe that seemed to be suspended in mid air with the planet projected onto it. I learned some great info about our beautiful planet from the presentations on it. However, I would never like to be off this planet. It gives me anxiety watching space programs where they are looking back at the earth, I totally would have a panic attack if I were to suddenly find myself in space!

There were so many interactive things to play with at the Science Museum these pics are my favourites from a section that gave you details on each picture. Aren’t they just so beautiful?

My picture that would eventually become drawn in sand by a robot arm! I love that I seem to look like a little kid in this one and not my age of 34! *score!*

Tada! Strangely this looks a lot like my passport photo in which I have short hair.

Hollie spying on a baker in Carolina or somewhere. After hours playing in the Science Museum, we headed off to enjoy Six60!

Totally didnt mean to cut off half our faces but it came out as a cool photo don’t you think?

We were right at the front!

Oh look! Somehow my iPhone decided to take a clearer picture… (think it’s time to get a new one!)

Six60 asked everyone in the audience to turn on their phone’s lights and shine them because it looked awesome!

Six60 gave it their all and seemed genuinely blown away by the crowd that came to see them, really awesome band that went absolutely wild on stage, loved it!

And to top off the night, after dodging a flying drum stick, I managed to grab it in the scramble for it at my feet! *double score!*

Here’s a video of some of my favourite songs of theirs that I filmed at the concert

Tomorrow I am off to The Great British Tattoo Show so if you’re in London, look out for Me, I’ll be around with My camera and probably wearing My DAME necklace and a Rik Lee Illustration tshirt

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Here are the things I found this week on the web:

• Are you a party girl who is getting fed up with the fall out of constant partying? You may be interested in this wonderful six week program and community to get you back on track and healthier than you’ve ever been before.
• Angeline Jolie’s double mastectomy has caused a lot of controversy and not just in the wellness industry but also in feminist circles with outrage at some responses by men which are pretty sickening. I choose to focus on Lissa Rankin’s comment on the whole debacle. You can read more discussion on the topic on her Facebook page.
• I watched Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead and You Can Heal Your Life and was reinvigorated on my path to teaching holistic wellness.
• Salivating all over myself for this Spring Salad.
• Diet related illness has become the biggest killer on the planet, and we need to take action, join the food revolution!
• Going cross-eyed over this incredible luxury lingerie collection…
• If you like dark edgy and alternative fashion, take a look at Seriously Ruined by Aussie Renee Ruin, she’s been blogging up a storm lately with some really great designers.
• Insane styrofoam cup art.
• Custom romantic animated movie engagement ring boxes.
• I love this explanation why exercise feels hard and how it affects your body.
• Cats taking selfies. You’re welcome.
• “This movie does for health what The Secret did for wealth”. If you care about your wellbeing, watch it.

I’ve missed out on many weeks of belly dance class unfortunately, but this video is stunning, not only is the lady a Goddess, but look at that hair!!!

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Here’s what I found this week on the web:

• I love the advice Sarah got from her mom and aunt’s, what great advice have the women in your life given you?
• The Great Gatsby inspired lingerie. I’ll have number 3 please.
• Annie of Hyperbole and a Half is back and explains depression perfectly in cartoon form for those who still don’t get it. Please, if you have people in your life suffering from depression, please make the effort to understand what depression is, it will help so much.
• Fellow Institute of Integrative Nutrition student, Rebecca of VeganSparkles.com makes the most divine recipes, this week I made her Vegan Laksa and it was TO DIE FOR. Ok so I used chicken instead of Tofu cos I was cooking for my mom, but I could have eaten this all day and night, SO delish! I’m a huge fan of Thai food
• I love these tips on how to make everyday more awesome!

Such a great feel good video, had my laughing hysterically!

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