All I've Got's This Sunny Afternoon

These are some photos I took in Dublin Castle Park this week. We've been having such beautiful weather this week, hopefully this isn't the best it's going to get all Summer!

You might be wondering what's going on with the post-it notes ( they're Kate's from the hospital which is why they have a drug name on them) stuck to our foreheads. We were playing the game from Inglourious Basterds (which Kate and I watched this week). As you can see our fictional characters were a bit ridiculous. If you get what Star Burns is from then I love you! Heehee!

I forgot to tell you about our Screamathon last week! It was so much fun, we borrowed a projector and watched the films in our friend Simon's house and had popcorn and drinks and I fell asleep towards the end of Scream 2 :(

We went to see Scream 4 on Friday and we all loved it. It was completely ridiculous and made fun of Horror movies including the previous three Scream films but I really enjoyed it for that.

We also went to see Your Highness yesterday. It was so funny! I started watching Eastbound and Down this week and I just love Danny McBride so much! We've also started re-watching Arrested Development. I don't know how many times I've seen it but every single time I watch an episode I find there's something hysterical that I don't remember from the last time I watched it. I'm pretty sure it's the perfect Tv show!

Anyway that's enough nerd talk, I hope you're having a lovely week and that you're getting lovely weather too!

Here's a little something to get you in the mood for Summer;

Emma x

Ten Things I Love About Music

This week the lovely Cayce of Madame Joy passed along the Versatile Blogger Award to me! I thought I would follow in her footsteps and share some of my favourite albums with you instead of the 7 facts. I thought it would be easy to pick 7 of my favourite albums but I ended up with a list of about 20, so I decided to do a list of my ten favourite albums of all time of which I love every song on the album and then my favourite ten albums of the past five years because there have been so many recent ones that have become quick favourites. I have to throw some honourable mentions in there too as choosing just ten was too difficult for me!They are in no particular order;

1. Fleetwood Mac- Rumours

2. The Shins- Oh Inverted World

3. Red Hot Chili Peppers- Blood Sugar Sex Magik

4. REM- Out of Time

5. Pixies- Doolittle

6. Jeff Buckley- Grace

7. Elliott Smith- Figure 8

8. The Smith- The Smiths

9. John Frusciante- To Record Only Water For Ten Days

10. Neil Young- After The Gold Rush

Honourable Mentions:

Kate Bush- The Kick Inside; Peter Gabriel- So; Radiohead- The Bends; Jump Little Children- Magazine; Walking Concert- Run To Be Born; David Bowie- Let's Dance; My Bloody Valentine- Loveless; Paul Simon- Graceland; Talking Heads- Speaking in Tongues; John Frusciante- Shadows Collide With People

Top Ten of the past five years:

1. The National- High Violet

2. Fleet Foxes- Ragged Wood

3. Beach House- Teen Dream

4. Arcade Fire- The Suburbs

5. The Shins- Wincing The Night Away

6. Bon Iver- For Emma, Forever Ago

7. Coconut Records- Nighttiming

8.Radiohead- In Rainbows

9. She and Him- Volume One

10.Phoenix- Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

Honourable Mentions:

Rival Schools- Pedals; She and Him- Volume Two; Warpaint- The Fool; Yeah Yeah Yeahs- It's Blitz!; The Lonely Island- Incredibad; Fever Ray- Fever Ray; M Ward- Post-War; Imogen Heap- Speak For Yourself; Beach House- Beach House; Beach House- Devotion; Death Cab For Cutie- Narrow Stairs

Thank you so much to Cayce for her kind words about me, she's such a lovely girl, please check out her blog if you get a chance! What are your favourite albums? I'd be really interested to see what you would choose!

I'd like to pass the award on to:

Kait of Miss Kait Online

Kerry of My Orange Stilettos

Sara of Autumn, Coffee and Inspiration

Cindy of Cindy Ellison

Rosy of Raindrops on Rosy

All five ladies are so lovely and I look forward to seeing what 7 things they post about whether it's 7 facts about themselves or if they break the rules like me and tell us about their favourite music!

Hope you're having a great weekend so far!

Emma x

Won't You Follow Me Down to the Rose Parade?

Here are the rest of the photos from Sunday. I love looking at all the unusual plants and flowers, some of them are so amazing looking!

My sister and her fiancé were in Italy for the past couple of days looking at a venue for their wedding. They are really happy with the hotel and have can now properly start planning everything. It looks amazing from the photos I've seen and I'm so looking forward to it! I might be going over to the hotel with Kate and my mam again during the Summer to organise a bit more and finalise everything. It's so exciting!

I hope you all are having a great week so far!

Emma x