Bits and Pieces: Take 8

1 / These guys are rather amusing. They also closed for a week. It's been a terrible few days :P

2 / Went to a fashion show with this kid, tackled a Maccas drive through and then ran around a park in the dead of night. It was great.

3 & 4 / I sat in my backyard with two of my brothers and one of our doggys, talking and laughing and relaxing.

5 / Spent an awful lot of time at the beach. I love summer.

6 / Coffee times!! A Friday ritual :)

7 & 8 / A final farewell to the uni tav for the year.

9 / Had lunch with an old friend.

10 / Learnt how to play the Pepper the Pig game with my lovely cousin.

After all that finishing uni joy, turns out the past 7 days have been pretty hectic and taking photos hasn't particularly been on the top of my radar. I'm also getting excessively bored of iPhone photos. Can't wait for my new photo-taking machine to arrive for Christmas ;)

Bits and Pieces: Take 7.

1-5 / I hung out in an urban orchard (next to the train station in Perth), hunting for strawberries, admiring my city and picking flowers with Nageena.

6 & 7 / I went to a small gathering, learnt that the guy in the photo apparently draws Mario mushrooms everywhere, and laughed a lot.

8 / This kid got her license!! For our first driving trip, she took me to my doctors appointment hahaha. 

9-11 / For our next trip, we went down to the beach for a lovely swim, and then headed to Fremantle for chips, juice and coffee. We also found this rabbit, drove half way home and decided we didn't really want to go home so went back to Freo. Ah sweet freedom.

12 / Poppies came to life in my back garden and I remembered those men & women who have fought for my country.

13 / The little brother cooked pancakes for the two of us, and hid behind this tea towel when I tried to take a photo. I laughed a little at the slight piece of irony :P

Not pictured: Today, I handed in my final assessment for the semester!! It wasn't 4 days late or anything... :P

To celebrate, I am going to go and potentially eat some gelato, sleep a lot, and plan a very exciting adventure that I'm about to dive into :D

Over and out.

Rhi :) xx

PS. I should mention that I am actually absurdly excited about having time to sit and write, both for this space and for another that I have seriously neglected. Also to be able to visit your spaces without feeling terribly guilty for not utilising the time for study. I'll be seeing you soon!! :D

Bits and Pieces: Take 6.

1 / Finding joy in lovely messages left by strangers.
2 / We celebrated a birthday at Lowdown - more on that tomorrow :)
3 / Dealt with horny peacocks at uni. Seriously, they are super cool looking but I don't think their beauty quite makes up for the weird dying-cat-cross-crying-baby squawking noise that these guys make all day :P
4 / Celebrated the last day of semester with a dinosaur, or dragon, or something... :D
5 / The room of essay writing is getting further and further into squalor. I'll clean it sometime soon, maybe**
6 / Hung out with some super fashionable kids.
7 / Lots of stylish people rode past me on bikes. One of them knew my name apparently. I still have no idea who this person is.
8 / Lovely native flowers :)
9 / Wondered why it's so hard to walk 5 metres to the closest bin...
10 / Chilled out in my messy room with a cello that loves to party. What a babe (my cello, that is).

**Nageena caught a glimpse of this on Skype. I would like to proudly announce that my room no longer resembles a pig sty :P

Bits and Pieces: Take 5.

Thanks to Michael for taking this rad photo.
I kind of really like it :D

1 / At the photo shoot - the necklaces Chloe designed (if you wanna see more, you should go to this event) :D
2 / Finished my first B&W roll of film! Hopefully I'll be posting the results soon :D
3 - 8 / A perfect afternoon & evening spent traipsing through Fremantle, eating fish & chips, frolicking in the freezing ocean and rolling down hills.
9 + 10 / Hung out with this dude & his super cool dog after an awesome little afternoon tea (gin) housewarming we went to :)
11 / I love our back garden during the spring time!
12 / The annual Nelson-household garlic harvest.
13 / Procrastinating from essay writing by sketching my stationary.
14 / My desk in the midst of writing an essay. Comparative to the state it's in right now, this looks tidy. Agh!!

And now, I shall return to that essay, which was technically due about 7 hours ago... :P

Bits & Pieces: Take 4

1 / Soaking up the spring weather with an outdoor common room.

2 / A Greaser & A Clockwork Orange. I love this photo.

3 / Early Halloween.

4 / Fish & Chips.

5 / Friday's Gig. All the guitars!

6 / The Art of Sleeping.

7 / Indie heaven. 

8, 9 + 10 / The Paper Kites.

11 / Saturday's Gig.

12 / 4 more colour frames to go & then I get to experiment with black & white film :D

13 / According to my instagram, "a warm spring evening, a smattering of orange blossom petals, a tree full of lemons and some chairs whose stories go beyond even my childhood. I am feeling nostalgic and lazy tonight." I know. I'm a dirty hipster :P

It has been a crazy, crazy week. I've been to two gigs (both involving the same bands and both involving ridiculous amounts of radness - also the purchase of two new EPs!) :D I rocked up to an early Halloween Party as a Clockwork Orange character with Nageena, I have worked 5 days, sat two assessments for uni, eaten a burger, and made an honest start on two major essays. I've started collecting Christmas presents, celebrated a birthday, laughed a lot at drunk people, eaten crepes for breakfast, missed sleeping in my own bed, replied to my emails, gone for a midnight swim, been complimented on my glasses so many times that I've actually lost count, over consumed coffee and apparently, haven't slept.

I don't know how to express the contentedness that has enveloped itself around me, except to say that I feel like I need a long nap, and then to do it all over again.

These are the times that make me feel alive.