The Sunday Catch-Up & Electrical Current Lifestyle Favourites #7

The lastly fourth dimension I caught upward amongst you, it was merely every bit summertime was dying and now it good together with genuinely feels similar autumn! Not only has it been a spell but the seasons take away hold started to modify together with fast... This is what I've been upward to together with the things I've been loving inwards that time.


The destination of summer

I e'er seem to take away hold thence many exciting things on during the summertime months that it really was a pathetic 2d for me when I realised it was all over (in a flash, every bit always)! I know spill is the calendar month that gets romanticised inwards the blogging world, but for me summertime is all nearly music, dancing, trips away, eating non bad nutrient together with having my diary packed total of exciting events. I e'er experience similar I tin expire anywhere together with produce anything! Now all that's over together with my banking concern residuum is looking less than good for you lot together with there's much less to hold off frontward to, I can't aid but experience the post-summer blues... I finished off summertime with the most amazing fourth dimension at Manchester Pride (My Week inwards Lipsticks #5.

Life changes

I've had a few depression points inwards recent months, to position it mildly - I've had some hard things to bargain amongst personally, notwithstanding I've had some amazing friends to a greater extent than or less me who take away hold really been at that topographic point every bit moral support. One skilful affair has happened though together with that's my project update - I'm no longer a graduate! Scary every bit it is, I've at nowadays moved into the permanent project I'd been wanting together with 2 years on I tin really appreciate all I've learned together with how far I've come upward inwards that time.

Spending fourth dimension amongst job solid unit of measurement together with friends

For my mum's birthday nosotros pass the hateful solar daytime at the amazing Titanic Spa in Huddersfield. It's a sustainable eco-spa out inwards the dry reason together with although nosotros didn't rest over, nosotros did produce a total hateful solar daytime at that topographic point from morn to evening. It has such a calm, tranquil atmosphere, nosotros had a really lovely tiffin (what I ate) and the store stocks brands similar Elemis, Neom, Decleor, Comfort Zone together with more. There's a pool, gym, outdoor jacuzzi, relaxation room together with a multifariousness of saunas together with steam rooms. We also got several treatments - I went for an Elemis Facial, Decleor Foot Treatment together with a Comfort Zone Tranquility Massage. As good every bit leaving me incredibly zen, my pare looked fresh together with glowing good into the adjacent week! I also dear that nosotros got chocolates together with champagne afterwards. If you lot alive inwards the northward west, I can't recommend this spa enough!

A twosome of weeks dorsum I took a brief trip downwards to Bristol, where 1 of my best friends lives, because she's leaving her project to produce a pHd at Oxford (yes, really!) I'd never been to Bristol before she moved at that topographic point but it's expire a flake of a 2d abode to me over that fourth dimension together with I met some really cool people downwards at that topographic point through her, thence it was non bad to take away hold 1 lastly nighttime at Mr Wolfs together with a terminal breakfast at Spicer together with Cole (what I ate)!

The adjacent hateful solar daytime I headed abode (and had a flake of a nap...) before coming together some of my job solid unit of measurement dorsum inwards Birmingham for dinner together with drinks. It was really dainty to select handgrip of upward together with nosotros had a non bad repast at Aluna, an eclectic eating theater inwards the Mailbox, which also has a vast, real skilful cocktail menu. Afterwards, every bit my mum was staying the Indigo Hotel, nosotros got a drinkable at the Marco Pierre White bar at the overstep of the city. It had alive music together with amazing panoramic views over Birmingham. The adjacent hateful solar daytime I met dorsum upward amongst my mum together with nosotros used their spa facilities (I don't commonly produce this thence often, I promise!) before having some lunch.

I latterly also got the chance to expire to a charity gala amongst my move colleagues amongst 1 of the companies nosotros produce a lot of job concern amongst - attention events is definitely 1 of the benefits of the manufacture I'm inwards together with it was skilful fun. I together with then headed dorsum to Birmingham together with got tapas amongst a skilful friend of mine who's merely moved dorsum to the urban substance together with her swain at Bar Estilo. Do you lot ever take away hold 1 of those restaurants you lot expire along trying to expire to together with it's e'er full? This house inwards the Mailbox was that eating theater for me! I'm glad I finally got to expire though, because the nutrient was really skilful together with nosotros really got a lot for our coin together with a lot of choice. It's also been really non bad to reckon thence much of my grandparents at nowadays I'm dorsum inwards Birmingham. Good food, a few drinks together with non bad conversation are pretty much what I alive for!

Lifestyle Favourites

The Power yesteryear Naomi Alderman | I read (or rather listened to on Audible!) this majority inwards its entirety whilst I was away inwards Palma after a friend recommended it earlier on inwards summer. If you lot bask intelligent, feminist or dystopian fiction together with then this is a must-read. The premise is that virtually overnight, women across the public start to railroad train electrical powers to varying degrees, which leads the ability residuum inside gild to shift, every bit all of a abrupt men are scared to walk the streets at nighttime together with women are seen every bit vehement aggressors. Alderman builds the story from several viewpoints together with is incredibly clever inwards how she exposes the buried realities inwards our ain gild yesteryear turning the patriarchy on its head.

Brave New World yesteryear Aldous Huxley | This is a majority I've been pregnant to read for a really long time, because 1984 is an all-time favourite of mine. This classic dystopia imagines a public where people alive inside their preordained house inwards society, never unhappy together with never wanting more. Everyone worships at the altar of capitalism together with happiness drugs are available virtually on tap. However a immature man, the 'savage' John was born exterior of gild together with brought every bit a curiosity dorsum to the 'civilised' world. Having learned to read using the move of Shakespeare together with having grown upward rereading it over together with over again, he has views on dear together with faith that are at odds amongst this society. I had mixed feelings nearly this book; I know it's variety of on purpose, but the characters are real empty, shallow together with hard to relate to on whatever level. They're essential merely vehicles for the message Huxley is putting forwards together with they never really grow together with railroad train (it is definitely non a character-driven narrative). The graphic symbol we're supposed to sympathize amongst - John - doesn't really appear until nearly halfway through, together with fifty-fifty together with then at that topographic point are elements of him that don't quite interpret to a 21st century indicate of view. I really shout out upward this is a to a greater extent than accurate see of the futurity than 1984, notwithstanding 1 of the problems I detect amongst it is that whilst parts of this public are disturbing, I don't experience the moral scandalize I shout out upward Huxley wants me to over other elements of it.

Children of Time yesteryear Adrian Tchaikovsky | This isn't a majority I'd heard of, notwithstanding a friend recommended it together with it sounded merely my sort of affair thence I downloaded it together with I was similar a shot hooked! It's a scientific discipline fiction novel based to a greater extent than or less humanity's search for a novel abode after a nuclear state of war all but destroys Earth. The story is told over millennia together with the narrative is separate betwixt the lastly humans aboard a spaceship (dipping inwards together with out of suspended animation inwards monastic tell to expire along the mission going) together with the life cast accidentally created on the most-promising planet they've spent thousands of years terraforming. I know real few books are genuinely master copy these days but I'm really going to state that this 1 is! It really is impressive to tell a story over such a menses of fourth dimension whilst maintaining a flat of intimacy. I also shout out upward it's thence clever how the writer builds a society, linguistic communication together with civilisation for creatures that humans are naturally disgusted by. This majority asks some really interesting questions nearly religion, gods together with the interpretation of these ideas, where human beings destination together with machines start together with how much of our humanity nosotros should sacrifice for progress. If you lot take away hold an involvement inwards science, philosophy, sociology, faith together with ethics together with then I can't recommend it enough!

Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams | After selling off Black Mirror to Netflix, at that topographic point was definitely a flake of a hole for a unique, scientific discipline fiction anthology serial on Channel 4. Luckily Electric Dreams (inspired yesteryear Philip K. Dick's brusk stories) has filled that slot already! Each episode stands alone, pregnant at that topographic point are some really big names on the billing. Despite that, the stories never experience rushed, together with you lot acquire an immediate sense of the public the story takes house in. The narrative is quite focused (it's to a greater extent than similar a snapshot of 1 person's story) but you lot soundless acquire a experience for the relaxation of the episode's universe that variety of leaves you lot wanting to a greater extent than when it's over!

What take away hold been your lifestyle favourites over the yesteryear few weeks?

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