Letters and good friends :)

I have received post for the last four days which is fun. I love getting post. One of life's small pleasures whether it's a letter that has travelled across oceans or a card from across the street or even just a package from amazon that contains single father on dvd :) More recently, I have fallen in love with letter writing, I adore it and it is always good if the receiver likes to write back.
So on Thursday afternoon, I arrive home from school to find a huge package from my friend-who-is-like-a-sister who lives in Washington State, USA. So we don't get face to face contact often, naturally I was excited to hear from her and when I opened it, this is what I found:

left shoe (doctor and river song)

right shoe (amy and rory)

She knows me so well and she is SO TALENTED. She PAINTED these doctor who shoes for me with loads of quotes and jokes and they are the coolest things ever. I can't even believe how awesome and talented she is. Speechless.

Ashley's blog: http://wisteriamusings.tumblr.com/ - go tell her how awesome she is!
Her Photography page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ashley-Garrels-Photography/
Her Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ashleyohthree

:)

:)

Last first day of school.

or at least I hope :)
so today we became the top end of the school, weird as it seems.

the day was strange in more ways than one. Our new headteacher put into words what I had been feeling these past few weeks, I was reunited with some of the people I love the most and we got to chat and catch up. It all felt very loud and rushed but when I reunite with my friends - it feels like we've never been away. Also realised that one friendship is over but it is slightly refreshing to think I won't have to deal with all the negative energy anymore. No hard feelings. The changes in the school were definitely noticeable, staircases had been removed, corridors re-done and new gates which are weird. The year 7s get taller every year but their backpacks still seem to over power them. My best friend and I managed to locate very comfy chairs so sat there chatting before we realised we had to run upstairs where we found a huge spider. I swear they follow me everywhere. We chatted about life and family and school and uni and rocks (geology rocks) - I seriously love her so much as a friend, I know I can tell her anything and she won't care if I'm weird and she's awesome. Had geography which was great but felt slightly more empty due to some people dropping the subject. Also in our form room, we now have a creepy doll as mascot, not sure whether or not this is an improvement on last year's skeleton who was named Delilah. Both were equally creepy. Being the eldest in the school is odd, I must say.
Coming home from School, I got to chat with Kayleigh about her first day of secondary school and then we saw our other neighbours which was fun.
So that's all for now, I think I'm getting to like this blogging thing!

What I'm thankful for/loved today.

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-My 2nd Family - The neighbours across the street :)
-new starts
-Brenda's Homemade soup
-singing tv theme songs with sister and Kayleigh who is practically my sister on the street extremely loudly
-walking slowly with Kayleigh in the pouring rain for the fun of it
-Niall on a mission
-Going on a trip for stationary with Kayleigh and ending up buying crunchie bites. Spending the whole walk home shouting 'these are so good'
-chatting about camping and getting excited about the camping trip we are going on in a week and a half!
-the fact that Kayleigh is starting secondary school tomorrow.
-the beginning signs of autumn, the ever changing colour of the leaves.
-my cats snuggled up in bed with me


Love Ellie xx

Camping near Stonehenge with the neighbours.