Mizzle

Long ol' way to get to Cornwall from Newbury. Spent the better half of 5 hours driving down with Mum, Rebecca, Louis and his girlfriend to get to our holiday home far, far away from phone signal. We spent a good portion of the evening playing games on the Wii and catching Pokémon on the new Pokemon GO app which is currently all the rage. Tomorrow we will no doubt be doing something similar to sightseeing so I'll try to take some pictures if its not too mizzly. (Clever combination of mist and drizzle there)

Best Burgers

Took a stroll into Central London, mostly to visit South bank and the Tate  Modern. It was only moments after we walked into the art gallery that we realises just how artistically out of our depth Rebecca and I were. We stuck around for the now tower thing they built so we got a good 'on high' perspective of South Bank and then we bailed very quickly to Borough Market which was amazing. It was basically Dad's idea of heaven as every other stand was a cheese or chutney spot where they sold really authentic looking cuisine - heck, there was even an olive stand which was vastly comprehensive.

We finished up our  day at Byron Burger where I had a double bacon chesseburger, I even got to choose how well done I wanted it, so I went all in and got it done medium. It ranks up there in the best burgers I've ever had, defo a lot to learn about making burgers based on that one meal.

Bristol to London and Back

Manic 2 days of travel for Rebecca and I. First I got a coach to London to meet up with Rebs, and then we immediately hopped onto a coach to trek to Bristol. Spent a few hours milling around the town centre and went to The Bag of Nails - or as its more commonly known as: The cat pub!

Rebecca is cat crazy, and this pub has 4 cats dotted around for stroking sake. While I am not as cat mad, it was a fun gimmick. So, a quick pint down and theb along to Mark and Lucy's where we cooked dinner and stayed the night to Rebecca was fresh and ready for her job interview.

Today was spent running around Bristol, to then head back to London for a second job interview. Now they are all done and out of the way, we are chilling at Rebecca's house - no doubt we'll be running around again soon though.

Dan is (Once Again) the Man

Shot off a cheeky job application before tearing up some games of Smash Bros with Louis. He was bigging up how he'd been playing it non-stop for a week so he should be able to beat me. Fortunately, the king stay the king and I beat him down. After that victory subsided, Dan came over to hang, I always have time for Dan because he's just a great guy to chill with, we went through all sorts of games together and he even gave me some tips in Dark Souls.

I'm currently packing up all my stuff to head to London and Bristol tomorrow. Going light is my forte now so I'll be absolutely fine. That said, I have completely underestimated how many clean shirts I had before going away. So I'm now sat in front of the washing machine waiting for some freash clothes. The things I do for Rebecca.

BBQ and Chill

Dad and I made the trip to Kent to spend a bit of time with my Uncle and Grandparents. It was near enough to my Uncle's Birthday so we had a small BBQ event so a lot of cooked meat was consumed. Alongside the all-important tiramisu which was amazing. The food was so good in fact, that I didn't notice my neck getting a little bit sun burnt, I think I escaped the full of it, and hopefully this will be the last time this Summer that happens.

Chill Time with Jamie

Caught up with Jaime tonight, a cat I haven't hung with for a few months now. We chatted about the games, music and films we had been enjoying recently, We even whacked on a few episodes of the really old school Simpsons. The level of quality in them really is next level and I always reveal in opportunities to watch the classic ones again. There just wasn't anything like it for its time, and I was surprised to see just how much of a human aspect there was to the show that has since been lost to the times. We finished off the evening with a game of Trials, a minimalist motorbike game that Jamie has always been better than me at, and he kept his crown tonight. Perhaps next time I'll beat him after I come back from holiday...

One More Application Sent

Shot my CV off to another job, this time it was for a slightly more unconventional application. A web and film production company were looking for zany and quirky people to help them develop ideas for content so I put my name forward after citing my orange and pinta film - hopefully they will do enough to turn a few heads and then land me the job. Spent most of the day writing up an original covering letter explaining why I am the second coming of Christ while maintaining a gently funny tone - its a bit out there, but it did sound very promising as a place to work in the future.

Immediately after sending that email off I was whisked away to a Gardner Leader Summer due full of free beer and pulled pork sliders - what's not to love. I even bumped into a 6th former called Kieran who was also a production runner on Hungerford 2. His mum sent me his AS level film which was legit good and I gave him some feedback on it a few months ago now. He asked me a few questions about going to uni to study film at Bournemouth and I basically said they would be daft to pass him up, but you gotta make a good first impression during the interview. He wants to do film production at AUB, I also had an interview there for that same course and I almost fainted during the interview because they grilled me so hard, best of luck to him really.