Update, because I'm rubbish

Hi guys!

Sorry I haven't been writing more. Haven't really had the inclination to be honest! But I'm back :)

Wow, it's been an eventful couple of months. Reading back in August, which was amazing as ever ^__^ Managed to see some of my favourite bands ever & fall in love even more with music. The Cure were absolutely incredible - it was a joy to watch them. Lullaby, Lovesong & Just Like Heaven were beyond perfection. Saw Feeder on the Festival Republic stage & they were, of course, epic. Played all of the popular songs, with a few new ones thrown in - two months later, I can still hear everyone chanting the intro to Buck Rogers, urging them to play it. When they did, the tent fair exploded. And then I saw Foo Fighters. Too many words to describe them. Dave Grohl was...amazing, the set list inspired. When Dave Grohl dedicated These Days to Kurt, I welled up. The emotion in the crowd was palpable. They then finished on Everlong - the perfect ending to a perfect weekend of music.

Unfortunately, since then, things have gone downhill.

On Friday 21st September, my incredible grandma passed away from a pulmonary embolism. She'd been in a home for a few months before and, luckily, I'd managed to see her the week before. My mum had been  reading to her and she was just...happy. That is the memory I'll keep of her. I'll always remember having dinner at her house on a Monday after school - me & my sister would banish my brother to the kitchen to watch Pokemon and we'd be in the living room watching Byker Grove or Grange Hill, and then we'd have dinner, which would inevitably be some kind of pie, with home-made pastry and roasties. We'd talk about our day and Grandma would listen with the endless patience she always had. Just little memories like that. That's how I'll remember her her.

Now...things should be getting better.

This weekend, we're going to the Lake District, staying in a gorgeous little village called Bassenthwaite. Neil, who I mentioned in my previous post, was an avid walker - so my family & his family and some other close friends are going up there for the weekend. And then his ashes are going to be sprinkled on Helvellyn, which is pretty amazing. Me & my mum aren't though (both of us have problems with our knees, so it wouldn't really be sensible!) - so instead, we're going to potter around for the day. These pictures are why I'm looking forward to it:

That is Bassenthwaite Lake. Beautiful, innit?

So that's this week.

Then two weeks tomorrow, I'm seeing Muse again :D And I am MASSIVELY excited. I might also be seeing them the next day in  London, to see them do a live recording for Radio 2. That would be INCREDIBLE.

And lastly, at the beginning of November, I'm going up to Belper to have, what will inevitably be, a very drunken weekend with people I work with at Reading & people who work at Leeds, Latitude & Big Chill. It's going to be much-o fun-o.

ANYWAY.

Hope you enjoyed :D