I promised you photos...

And photos you shall receive!
The below images were taken by me on a long walk on Easter Sunday with one of my best friends Liam. It was nice to meet up with him and have some quality catch-up time which didn't involve video games, alcohol or the cinema. Liam thinks we walked around ten miles, which for a lazy art student, is a mission! I'm proud of some of these photos and it shows my photography is improving, but I also have a lot to work on, but I now know how to go about this :)

I've also been asked to take photos for my friend Adam's tattoo studio, my friend Mel's tarot and alternative living website, and for my very close friend Joe's wedding next year - I'm not the official wedding photographer (thankfully! I think I'd buckle under the pressure) but to take photos of people smiling, dancing and just generally having fun will be a fantastic reminder for both him and his fiancee of what a beautiful day I'm sure they will have.

Tomorrow I go back to Brighton after two weeks of being back at my parents house. It's going to be strange going back as I've just gotten comfortable here again, but I only have two months at University before the long Summer begins and second year finishes. Just where is the time going? I had a lovely send-off lunch this afternoon with Joe, his fiancee Lyc, Duncan and Jemma at the Hollybush (check it out @ http://www.hollybushwitney.co.uk/) and it was so nice to get the little group together for some chilled out food and lots of laughter before I go back to Brighton. Although I'm growing apart from several people, I'm very lucky to have the friends that I do.

How are you spending your weekend? & Please feel free to leave any feedback on the photos!

A Casual Thursday Night

Evening all. Just settling down to watch some episodes of South Park! Check out this beautiful Google+ video - I won't be ashamed to say it made me cry!

Way too lazy...

Well, I've been a bit rubbish (yet again!!) haven't I?
So, what's new Lewi I hear you ask? Well...

Here is a photo of me to prove I am still alive.

• I'm back in Oxfordshire for Easter. Currently getting a little too comfortable by sleeping in, listening to lots and lots of music and eating too much food (especially that from Marks & Spencer, which I had forgot even existed on my student lifestyle). Playing many hours of xBox and seeing my beautiful Oxford friends.
• I'm also at war with Student Finance England who have conveniently placed me in the £9,000 tuition fee bracket and are also telling me I can't have a tuition fee loan to cover this. I thought my LAST EVER student loan application would be a dramatic and emotional process for me, and it is, but for all the wrong reasons!
• I've been writing a lot of poetry, and taking a lot of photos. Samples of both will be posted shortly.
• I really like bullet-point lists.
• Nobody washes my clothes as well as my mum. The fabric conditioner currently loving my clothes smells like the skin of Angels.
• I am still putting off Uni work and will therefore freak out, panic and probably develop a hernia from stress because I will never learn when it comes to deadlines.
• Royal Mail can suck my balls.

But enough of me, right now, you need to listen to some Fugees. This album is over 15 years old but it sounds like it was only made a couple of years ago. It's so well produced and so far ahead of its time. Enjoy!

Robyn Logan

the air in my country is normally cool, but tonight it was hotter than Hell itself. my cigarette smoked slower than usual, and as i leant a little too far over the balcony i saw five birds flock and dance in the sky around me. watching the people on the street below me like flies made me wonder if the second coming had already been and gone, whispers and blank faces were all this party consisted of and my thoughts were of my bed on the other side of the city.

you told me i'd meet 'the one' tonight - my Prince Charming, my White Knight. it's all a load of bollocks, love is just a fabrication given to the weak-hearted and whose who are easy to fright.

The Only Love Story

i met you on the shoreline at promised
your face twisted by my words 
cut deep and each line and wrinkle
was a chance where i could have turned it all around
the lapping sea spoke for both of us
and i just watched as your hair caught the wind
blowing away from you and from us towards a break in the clouds
you shook your head lightly, looking at the barren sands, and whispered something that would now be a secret to only the ocean

at that point i wept, and my heartbeat raced in-time with my thoughts.  

A Soppy Dedication

Matt, myself and Ducky at Jack Beats. Matt is probably the person I'm closest to in Brighton, and although he's had a pretty rough week, always keeps his head up and stays strong. He's like my brother from another mother - big love to you man.

March Oh March...

You little minx, so far you've been a big helter skelter of ups and downs but I'm determined to keep my head up high and carry on, through both good and bad!

Some photos to sum up this week:

On Tuesday I went to London for a University trip with some of my coursemates. The actual point of the trip, which was a visit to a gallery in Shoreditch, was the biggest loads of bollocks and a complete waste of our time, but we made the rest of the trip fun with a visit to the V&A (my first time!) which was incredible, a lovely Wagamamma's dinner with Nicky and meeting new coursemates (Roo and Sophie I'm thinking of you) who I got along incredibly well with. I really love London, believe it or not when I first used to go I used to despise the place, but it's growing on me with each visit and I can really see myself living there in the not too distant future.

On Saturday night I went to see Jack Beats at Audio with Matt and our future housemate Matt (who will from here-on be called Ducky to avoid confusion), he was INSANE. My neck and my legs still hurt from dancing so much and I bumped into several people who I already knew and met some new friends too (the smoking area is a social paradise...) Ducky is a nice guy on the whole but I'm going to need to do lots of work with him so we don't end up clashing.

Other things that happened this week include:

• Getting refused from all the houses we looked at.
• Purchasing five books (including a VICTORIAN EDITION of lotsa Wordsworth poems) for £2 each from the Amnesty International bookstore. I get new books and my money goes towards a good cause, both of which make me happy.
• Having take-away three times.
• A lovely dinner and cinema trip on Wednesday with Hannah, Louisa and Matt (Chronicle is very good, go and see it if you get the chance.)
• Drinking my bodyweight in Pepsi.
• Worrying, stressing and a general longing for things I can't have.

Next week I'm working a fair amount of overtime, going to some more houseviewings, and pulling my finger out of my arse and getting on with some Uni work whether I like it or not! Hope you all had a fantastic weekend!

P.S. I'll leave you with this song, my favourite from an album I've been listening to for most of today.