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Dear Blogging Friends,  It gives me so much joy and excitement to share this news with you. I am engaged!  Sam popped the question on Saturday the 25th April 2015... producing that little black box with a gorgeous ring nestled into the cushioning inside.  It was the biggest shock and I didn't see it coming at all - but now that I've had a chance to get used to the idea... I am thrilled.  Since last week Saturday when my entire life changed forever - I have been having the most incredible dreams about weddings.  I've started planning away like a crazed bride-to-be should! If anyone has any recommendations or quirky ideas PLEASE feel free to share them.  Obviously I'd like to keep a lot of the wedding as a surprise but I can tell you that the date has been set and we have decided on a forest wedding. Very bohemian (of course!).  We've had an engagement photo-shoot and are in the midst of planning our engagement party... all the while I'm sitting with pag...

Rotten Tomatoes gave this film 26% on the ' Tomatometer ' (basically: making it rotten).  Here's what I have to say about that:  I honestly couldn't believe all of the bad reviews because I absolutely adored this film!  *That being said, I do have a tendency to lean towards the stereotypical rom-coms. I'm a woman in my mid-twenties, I dig that shit. Give me a delicious bottle of shiraz, some freshly made popcorn (perhaps with a box of Astros or Smarties sprinkled and melted on top) and a romance and you have one happy lady right here.  Love, Rosie has everything I could possibly want in a film of it's type: Romance Drama Comedy (British comedy at that!) Charm Beauty Heartache Struggle Pain Loss A Happy Ending It has everything - r egardless of the countless cliche's and the predictability... this is one film I just fell in love with.  It's hilarious!  I laughed out loud.  I scrunched up my fists in frustration.  My heart broke and mended.  ...

Oh boy... it's nearly the end of the month already and I've done absolutely no blogging yet! The truth is, this is the first morning all month that I actually can - so here it goes. I don't want to give too much away in this post and spoil my April Monthly Favourites post which is coming up next week (how scary is that!? Where did this month go!?) - but right now I'm nestled in my bed with a hot water bottle at my feet and my Macbook on my lap.  There's a big cup of Cranberry, Apple and Cinnamon tea in my one hand, as the other finally types this to you.  When I submitted the first three chapters of my manuscript to some literary agents at the end of March, I really didn't expect much to come of it.  I don't know if it was that I just didn't want to get my hopes up or if I just had a lot of self-doubt but I just didn't expect things to turn out well. I guess I was bracing myself for that rejection letter I'd already drafted up in my head that cam...

March was a reasonably quiet month spent mostly enjoying my own company. I needed some time to unwind and take a breather from all the socials which have been ongoing since December! Important and Life-Altering Thing  That  Happened In March: Definitely sending my manuscript off to a literary agent.  You can read a bit more about that HERE . In short though, it was terrifying! I've never had the courage to do that before and what the above post doesn't mention is that after you send the manuscript off, the waiting game begins. It's human torture in it's most gut-wrenching form.  To make matters worse, you start flipping through your copies of what you've sent off,which is usually:  The First 3 Chapters of the Manuscript A Full Plot Synopsis A Cover Letter  A Curriculum Vitae You start picking up even MORE spelling mistakes that make you so angry. HOW did you not SEE that one?! How did it slip through?! It wasn't there before! What the hell happened!? The...