Beautiful.

I've got an exam in a couple of hours, so I'm meant to be revising but one of the girls linked me to this video and it made my day. Aren't they beautiful!
Holidays and placement in a couple of weeks so I will update more about what I've been up to when I get some spare time.
Also, randomly booked flights to Melbourne next week so if you are down there and want to catch up just send me a facebook message because I have a new number and was too lazy to transfer my contacts when I got it :P.
Have a good morning!

Newfangle

New´fan`gle.
1. Eager for novelties; desirous of changing.

Over the last few weeks I was lucky enough to have been involved in the production of this incredibly cool short film. The girls who made it were absolutely fantastic, and I absolutely loved being a part of it. The music is by the beautiful and talented Elle Graham.

You can find out more about the production and see some more photos here.

Wanderlust.

You can always make more money, take up a job and pay back your debt. You can spend all the time you want catching up on work you missed. What you can't do, though, is turn back time and take up the opportunities that you let slip by the first time. It's one of my biggest fears, putting something off until 'later' only to never come back to it. If you want something, and there is any way in hell you can get it, then go for it, fight for it. You're never going to get to the end of your life and wish you had taken fewer chances, had pursued fewer dreams and had less adventures to look back on.

Hahaha look what I found.

An old attempt at a video diary from November, the morning of my last exam. Oh dear Lord.

The 100 most beautiful words in the English language.

Here is something really lovely that I came across today. It's a list of words that give me faith in the English language after coming to dislike it so much in comparison to the romantics I've heard on my travels. I have italicised my favourites, but please let me know if there are any amazing ones I have missed. Personally, I can never go past a good nemesis, but have always wondered if you can ever have more than one. Is there a plural? Anyway, hope you had a wonderful weekend!

Ailurophile A cat-lover.
Assemblage A gathering.
Becoming Attractive.
Beleaguer To exhaust with attacks.
Brood To think alone.
Bucolic In a lovely rural setting.
Bungalow A small, cozy cottage.
Chatoyant Like a cat’s eye.
Comely Attractive.
Conflate To blend together.
Cynosure A focal point of admiration.
Dalliance A brief love affair.
Demesne Dominion, territory.
Demure Shy and reserved.
Denouement The resolution of a mystery.
Desuetude Disuse.
Desultory Slow, sluggish.
Diaphanous Filmy.
Dissemble Deceive.
Dulcet Sweet, sugary.
Ebullience Bubbling enthusiasm.
Effervescent Bubbly.
Efflorescence Flowering, blooming.
Elision Dropping a sound or syllable in a word.
Elixir A good potion.
Eloquence Beauty and persuasion in speech.
Embrocation Rubbing on a lotion.
Emollient A softener.
Ephemeral Short-lived.
Epiphany A sudden revelation.
Erstwhile At one time, for a time.
Ethereal Gaseous, invisible but detectable.
Evanescent Vanishing quickly, lasting a very short time.
Evocative Suggestive.
Fetching Pretty.
Felicity Pleasantness.
Forbearance Withholding response to provocation.
Fugacious Fleeting.
Furtive Shifty, sneaky.
Gambol To skip or leap about joyfully.
Glamour Beauty.
Gossamer The finest piece of thread, a spider’s silk.
Halcyon Happy, sunny, care-free.
Harbinger Messenger with news of the future.
Imbrication Overlapping and forming a regular pattern.
Imbroglio An altercation or complicated situation.
Imbue To infuse, instill.
Incipient Beginning, in an early stage.
Ineffable Unutterable, inexpressible.
Ingénue A naïve young woman.
Inglenook A cozy nook by the hearth.
Insouciance Blithe nonchalance.
Inure To become jaded.
Labyrinthine Twisting and turning.
Lagniappe A special kind of gift.
Lagoon A small gulf or inlet.
Languor Listlessness, inactivity.
Lassitude Weariness, listlessness.
Leisure Free time.
Lilt To move musically or lively.
Lissome Slender and graceful.
Lithe Slender and flexible.
Love Deep affection.
Mellifluous Sweet sounding.
Moiety One of two equal parts.
Mondegreen A slip of the ear.
Murmurous Murmuring.
Nemesis An unconquerable archenemy.
Offing The sea between the horizon and the offshore.
Onomatopoeia A word that sounds like its meaning.
Opulent Lush, luxuriant.
Palimpsest A manuscript written over earlier ones.
Panacea A solution for all problems
Panoply A complete set.
Pastiche An art work combining materials from various sources.
Penumbra A half-shadow.
Petrichor The smell of earth after rain.
Plethora A large quantity.
Propinquity An inclination.
Proximity; Nearness
Pyrrhic Successful with heavy losses.
Quintessential Most essential.
Ratatouille A spicy French stew.
Ravel To knit or unknit.
Redolent Fragrant.
Riparian By the bank of a stream.
Ripple A very small wave.
Scintilla A spark or very small thing.
Sempiternal Eternal.
Seraglio Rich, luxurious oriental palace or harem.
Serendipity Finding something nice while looking for something else.
Summery Light, delicate or warm and sunny.
Sumptuous Lush, luxurious.
Surreptitious Secretive, sneaky.
Susquehanna A river in Pennsylvania.
Susurrous Whispering, hissing.
Talisman A good luck charm.
Tintinnabulation Tinkling.
Umbrella Protection from sun or rain.
Untoward Unseemly, inappropriate.
Vestigial In trace amounts.
Wafture Waving.
Wherewithal The means.
Woebegone Sorrowful, downcast.