I’ve had the same theme on this website for quite a while and, for the last year or so, I’ve been getting really sick of how rubbish it looked. The reason I didn’t change it straight away is because I wanted to create my own custom theme, but unfortunately that takes a lot of time, which I currently don’t have. For now I’ve installed this theme, which I think looks quite nice, although I might alter the header at some point. If there are any bugs on here (which is probably inevitable) then please tweet me.

Looking at my old theme made me think about how much I must’ve changed since I started blogging: I don’t know what on earth possessed me to put such an atrocious theme on this blog, along with such a rubbish header and introduction box. If I went onto a website that had my old theme installed on it, I would probably leave, yet somehow 15 (ish) year old me decided that it was wonderful. The blue colour that I used on the blog, is the colour that I have used ever since I’ve owned this domain, and for sentimental reasons (or something like that) I didn’t really want to let poor old #3399CC go. However, I think I’ve grown up enough to choose a theme on the basis of appearance and usability, rather than a colour.

Thinking about how odd my choice of theme seems to be now prompted me to read back on my old posts to see what they were like…. I think ‘not amazing’ would be a very kind way to describe them. I’m not saying that I am an amazing blogger now – by no means are my blog posts fantastically interesting – but at least I use proper grammar and don’t type in such an annoying manner. Honestly, who the hell puts ‘”cya” after every post and an exclamation mark at the end of almost every sentence. How I loathe younger me.

Perhaps I am being a little hard on myself. I think that many people my age will read back on something that they wrote a year or two ago and think: “why on Earth would I write that!?” Our younger selves are of a constant embarrassment, in fact, I’ll probably read back on this post in a few years and immediately think, “hypocrite.”

That’s all for now. To younger me: sorry for insulting you, but please, have better taste. To future me: try not to be too mean when you’re judging me. Cya.

On this day last year, I wrote a post called: ‘Girls‘ explaining how awful I was with understanding girls and how I was far too shy to ever tell someone I liked them (read the post, it’s quite pathetically funny!). But, despite the post making me sound completely useless, it led to Beth (in a vlog, accompanied by a blog explaining how we met each other, here) telling me to just tell a girl when I liked them. That night, I then said: “what if I said this is one of those moments when I want to say something but don’t know how to say it” to which she replied, five minutes later, worrying me because I thought she was ignoring me: “I would say just say it” and the rest is history! Well it’s not, because it’s not in any books anywhere, nor will it ever be, so… Read more »

Leavers Video

Right click link and click ‘save as’ to download the video.

This is a video myself, @Gazman162 and @HisLittleEmoo made for our year’s leavers assembly. It was really fun to edit (even though it took 6 hours) and I’m pretty pleased with the result so I thought I’d share it with you all.

[Update] I had to remove the video from YouTube as it included copyrighted music and I wanted to monetize my videos. It is still available to download if you would like, or you can simply click on the link and watch it.

Not really much to say about this one, I made some pancakes on pancake day, put horrible things in them and then didn’t get round to editing the video until a week later. Cya

Right, are you done laughing at me now? Okay I’ll give you a minute…

So, that was me, having my hair straightened by my girlfriend, Beth. I will say one thing about hair straighteners: they’re hot. When Beth straightened parts of my hair next to my scalp I thought it was burning through my skull… But maybe that’s just because I’m not used to having my hair straightened. I don’t think I’ll do it again, I don’t really like how it looks, or how it feels, and it takes ages to do, so I don’t really see the point! Plus I don’t think I could deal with the Justin Bieber jokes. Read more »