I Can Drive?!

First of all, let me take you back to just over 2 years ago, I was 20, working in a busy town with fantastic transport links that dropped me as close as a 5 minute walk away from my office and was able to spend my wages on whatever I wanted. I had no real reason to be driving and had little to no desire to begin either. Flash forward to when I started my job in a small village and things became extremely different! Not only are the transport links between where I live and where I work quite poor, they're slow and expensive! where I was paying £7.00 per week for a train ticket, I began paying £95.00 per month for a bus ticket, a huuuge contrast. Throw in a bus that only runs every hour and is quite often late and you'll get an extremely fed up Hayley! After a year of working at my current job, I finally gained enough courage to get behind the wheel and learn to drive and after a few weeks of learning, I wondered why I'd never wanted to start! 

All in all, it took me around a year to pass my test, I reckon this is partly because I put off doing my theory test for a long time out of fear that I'd fail. I started lessons around the end of September and then passed my test just two weeks ago on the 25th of October. I was surprisingly lucky on both occasions and passed both of my tests first time which was so so unexpected, I didn't feel at all like I knew enough to pass the theory and I certainly didn't feel prepared to pass the practical test. 

The weekend after the weekend that I passed, I went down to my local Citroen dealership and bought my first car, I got a C1 Elle in nude and I'm completely obsessed! The car is on Citroen's Simply Drive package where you get the car, insurance, road tax, roadside assistance and servicing for one monthly price which is a LOT cheaper than any prices I found when getting quotes for other separate cars. The car insured with a telematics scheme because I'm a brand new driver and 22 I only installed the device yesterday and have been obsessively checking my score after each journey since! so far I'm not doing too bad but it is put together over an average based on ALL journeys so I'm hoping I can keep the good driving up! 

Getting in a car on your own for the first time is weird and definitely takes a lot of getting used to but I'm starting to get used to it now and the first day I must've stalled 200 times while getting used to my car and driving to and from work was crazy but I'm definitely getting used to it now.  

Hayl xo

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My stay at Wynyard Hall

Back in April (I drafted a lot of posts ready to come back!), I went with two of my friends to stay at Wynyard Hall and have some time at their spa. If you've not heard of it, Wynyard Hall is a beautiful country hotel in (would you believe...) Wynyard in Teesside.

So, on arrival, we were greeted at the welcome desk, given our key and taken to our room, we were staying in the Mount Stewart Suite which is one of their junior suites to fit up to 4 people. Our room had a nice view of the front of the grounds as it was just above the entrance to the hall. The room was gorgeous sadly I didn't take any photo's to upload, it had 1 double bed and a double sofa bed too. Also in the room was the standard tea and coffee provisions (complementary) and an array of bathroom goodies to sample too. there was also a tv and dvd player which was handy as we had wanted to watch a film whilst we got ready for the night. I took a handful of DVD's although they did have a their own library that you could loan from should you have wished to do so.

On the night, we decided we would go to a local pub for tea called The Stables. The food was to die for and the portions were HUGE! We got potato skins as a starter and the waiter recommended we get 2 between the 3 of us rather than each get 1 and even then I don't think we ate it all! I then got a trusty Chicken Parmesan 'Parmo' for my main, it came with chips but they were about an inch thick and wide again it's safe to say, I did not finish that! We were all far too stuffed for dessert so we went into the bar for drinks. The atmosphere was lovely and we had a fantastic night (and of course it wouldn't be a trip to any pub without me leaving v. tipsy).

The next morning, we went down for breakfast at around 8am and each got a full english as well as a few bits from the continental spread they had. Once full, we then headed to the spa. None of us really fancied an actual treatment so we just spent our time trying out all of the facilities - the hot tub being the clear winner for us all I believe!

Overall, it was a lovely stay and I'd love to do it all over again

Hayl xo

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Guess Who's Back - Back again...

Hiiiyaaa... it's been a while, no? Well it would seem that we have a lot of catching up to do then ey? Since the last post, all I've thought when it comes to blogging is, what is there to follow a post like that? Where do I go from there? The answer, as it would seem, is wherever the hell I want and since I've had such a long break in between what I'd classify as 'proper blogging' as in me having a schedule etc. I thought I really can write anything, if there is ever a time to give my blog a new feel it would be now hence the new theme. 

So now for where am I going with my blog? 

Pretty much as I used to - I'm gonna write what I feel like writing but this time, I'm going to do it better! this means that If I want to write a beauty post about a facemask I'm loving... I'm gunna! If I've been binge watching a show on Netflix and I think you'll love it - I'll let ya know!

I really want to give the whole blog thing a go one more time and if it goes back to square one, I'll pack in (maybe) and just forget about writing all together but for now, I constantly think about how I can come back to the blog and what I can write that will make me happy and what better to make me happy than whatever I want?

Thanks for reading possibly my rambliest post ever! 


Hayl xo

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