So, I thought I'd write about something a little different this week - Netflix. We're all familiar with it, and we're all familiar with how easy it is to become addicted to a show and end up binge watching all six series over the space of a few days. We're all familiar with the feeling of forgetting what fresh air feels like because we've been sat watching our favourite show for perhaps a little too long.

So I thought I'd talk about my top five shows on Netflix that are great addictions.

Just to be clear not all of these shows are 'Netflix orginals', they are just on Netflix....

1.) Stranger Things

I watched the entire series in one day, and I'm sure I'm not alone. This show is thrilling, mystical, action-packed and kind of eery. It's everything I look for in a show to be honest, and the acting is fantastic. I'm not surprised it's done so well. I, along with anyone else who's seen the show, cannot wait for the next series.

2.) Peep Show

This is a current addiction of mine and I am still getting through it. I know it's been around quite a long time, but it's a great show to just watch when you want something light-hearted and hilarious. Mitchel and Webb are both brilliant and their characters Jez and Mark excellently potray the awkwardness and madness that we all perhaps experience from time to time.

3.) The OA

I haven't yet finished this, but I am loving it. I think there are only eight episodes which makes it the ideal binge watch length. I'm loving how unusual the story line is and how you think you know what is going to happen and then it all changes. I feel its a mixture of Stranger Things and The Returned.

4.) Pretty Little Liars

I am currently waiting for the final episodes to come out, which I think come out in April. Ah! I honestly didn't think I'd love this show as much as I did, but I think it's great. Sure, there are a lot of plot holes and and sometimes I finish an episode felling more than confused, but the characters are great and you end up feeling so involved in their stories. I love a good mystery/murder mystery and Pretty Little Liars pretty much took over my final year of University.

5.) Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

I haven't yet finished this show, because I am waiting to watch it with Luke (my boyfriend) - you know when you make a pact to not watch something without the other... yeah. We started watching it randomly and fell in love with it. I want to be Titus. I also love the hilarious back stories of the characters! Ellie Kemper is just fantastically dweeby and lovable.


So if you haven't watched the shows above, I would highly reccommend them. They are all especially good to watch when you're a.) ill b.) lazy or c.) it's raining.

Let me know in the comments box below what shows you're obsessed with, and let me know what you think of these shows!

Speak soon and thanks for reading, as always I am so thankful for every view.

Feeling like an adult... that's something that I've certainly been faced with more recently. I'm even at the stage of having to figure out mortgages... when did like get so real?!

For Christmas I received the lovely Deep Euphoria perfume from Calvin Klein, not physically, Calvin Klein himself did not come to Northampton to give me this gift...

It's a wonderfully sexy smelling perfume and makes me feel like I'm a successful adult when I wear it. Plus I believe the beautiful Margo Robbie was in the advert for this perfume, therefore, its selling point is pretty much sexiness, right?

Talking of sexiness...one thing I promised I'd start doing or at least aspired to do when I was younger was to wear silky, sexy underwear, all the time.

This is so unrealistic... sexy underwear, I'm sorry, it's just not practical. Unless you like having a wedgie, wearing a thong every day is just not something that I, or many women want to do. No!

And I don't know why we are forced to believe that having matching, pretty underwear will make us automatically have our lives together. I know no one is physically forcing us to, but growing up there is/was so much telling us that sexiness and beauty and success comes from the way we look or dress.

In films we see women wearing matching underwear and stylish expensive clothes... of course they are, they have a whole team of costume designers picking out stuff for that one scene; makeover programmes where women are stripped down to their pants and told that their underwear isn't helping their look were on every week.

And even now, in these different times, there is still a stigma over the way we all look. And it's a stigma that will always be there. Appearances are important, of course they are, but there are more important things, and I think we all tend to beat ourselves up far too much if we don't look a certain way.

To any girls or women out there who think they have to match their underwear, or think that all their pants should be silly frilly things... let me tell you.... you don't and they shouldn't. Never try to alter yourself because you think you aren't good enough. Because you are good enough!

I think when you're younger you think that as soon as you turn 20 you'll automatically be a confident 'has it all together' adult. But that just isn't true. Life is a big ol' learning curve. And I also have to say, where is the fun it wanting to be an adult all the time...?

Have some fun and stop trying so hard to be what you think an adult, or a sexy woman, or whatever else, should be.

I suppose my point to this post is: be yourself and don't try to be something you're not.

I will never be one of those women (if they even exist) who wear sexy matching underwear every day...

I will also never be Margo Robbie. Even when wearing this perfume, which is lovely... I'm not Margo Robbie, I am me. And that is fine, it's more than fine, I actually like me! And I smell great in this perfume.

And even though I am a grown up, it is still okay for me to make mistakes, enjoy having fun, and not know exactly what I'm doing...

The same goes for all you beauties out there.

What is it that makes you all feel good, or sexy?

How do you all keep sane with adulthood?

Let me know in the comments...

Speak soon

So recently I've been on a bit of a roller coaster, what with new and exciting things happening, but also not always knowing how to handle them and more importantly how to handle myself.

When your emotions are going crazy, and your mind and life is busy, my best advice would be to stop, take a  second, a minute, a few hours, whatever you need, to think about yourself, and what you feel and need and think.

I don't do this enough, and I get very stressed because I spend far too long worrying about non-existent problems, and being more pessimistic when I should be optimistic... we all should. When you think about it, why would anyone choose to think of the negative when the positive is so much more appealing.

Therefore, from now on I am going to try my absolute best to be kind to myself as well as others, and to focus on the good and the positive and all the beautiful, amazing things that are going right for me, and stop focusing on the little things that don't go my way.

I truly believe that the moment we start seeing the positive and leaving our negative thoughts behind, we will lead better, happier lives.

Here are five philosophies that I believe in and want to achieve.


1.) Be the change that you wish to see in the world - Ghandi

Be kind, always be kind, even if someone isn't kind to you. You'd be amazed at how far kindness can go! If you want the world to be a kinder place, the first step is to be kind yourself, and soon enough the people you are kind to will be kinder (they may already be kind, but you catch my drift).

2.) Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time - Thomas A. Edison

Always try your best. If you know that you have put your best effort into what you do, you can walk away knowing that there is nothing more you could have done and the path will unfold in front of you as it is meant to. One of the worst feelings, I think, is knowing you could have done more, or you could have tried harder.

3.) If you fell down yesterday, stand up today - H.G. Wells

Far too often we beat ourselves up over things we perceive as bad or we had no control over. Sometimes we replay things we said or did over and over when we cannot change them and truthfully everyone else has probably already forgotten about. If we treat each day as new, which it is, and move on and build bridges over the mistakes of yesterday, we can learn and improve and have a more peaceful mind.

4.) What we think, we become- Buddha

If we think negatively, we will become a negative person. The moment we start thinking more positively it'll show in our outlook on life and it'll show physically. Last April I started getting fresh air, enjoying my surroundings and doing more of what I loved. I instantly felt lighter, happier, and like my dreams and goals were more achievable. I felt good about myself, more confident and successful.

5.) If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door - Milton Berle

Sometimes we wait around for things to happen, as if by magic our dreams will come true. Realistically WE have to make things happen. By building a theoretical door, we can open it to opportunities that come our way. By building a door we put ourselves out there and offer ourselves up to the chance of great things happening.

There are so many inspirational philosophies to follow, but let's start with these. I'm going to give them a try and see where life takes me.

Let me know your philosophies and how you stay feeling awesome!

Speak soon