The Month of May Part Two: Northern Ireland.

Hello there day dreamers & tea drinkers !

So this is my final part to my month of may post. I'm terribly sorry for the lateness! My blogs been a very wee bit neglected! For those of you that know me will know that my best lives in Northern Ireland. We met at university where we lived together in halls then went on to spending the last 2 years of university life together in the same house along with 6 other people! Over the last 2 years of university we had always discussed taking a trip over the sea so I could visit her cute little town and her beautiful farm house, but we never followed it through! One day in April we were having our weekly natter when we decided that May would be the month she would show me her beautiful secluded farmlands and the Cooks Town nightlife! But what trip would be complete without the rest of our best. So we quickly said our goodbyes and hurriedly text Alison and Chloe informing them of our decision. All I kept thinking about was how great it would be to finally have the girls back together as uni blues seriously started to creep there way back in! We both got a speedy reply of YES from Alison but unfortunately Chloe had used all her holiday at work and couldn't make it. I was slightly disappointed but at least 3 of us could be together again! So for the next month or so i began my day dreams of Northern Ireland. I could only imagine what it would be like, the green grass, the fields, the spring sun shining down on us. I had been to Ireland before but that was Dublin and I was only a small young Jessica Rose at the time. This time I would be experiencing Ireland as a full grown up lady with 2 of her best friends. I couldn't wait.  

In a flash it became time to pack up my suitcase and head to the airport. My boy and our friend Ian dropped me off. We said our goodbyes and me and the boy shared our kisses before Alison and I skipped off in the direction of departures.

We were only up in the air for what felt like 5 minutes until the wheels hit the ground on Northern Ireland soil. My excitement started to kick in at this point. I was finally visiting my best friend in her own home. Sure it wasn't any where like America or Spain but it was away from England and the place she grew up in, that's what mattered to me. After what felt like a lifetime of waiting for our luggage the time came to walk out of the airport and greet Jill. We hugged, we screamed and we hugged some more. It had been such a long time that we had all been together. We hopped in the car and began chattering away. It was like we had never been apart. We sang along to the radio and took the mick out of each other, it was perfect. We pulled up to Jill's beautiful farm house. I was totally surprised, I did not expect it to be so big and wonderful. I couldn't wait to get in. We explored the old house and the new bits of the old house and all 5 bathrooms and then she took us on a tour of her papa's farmland.

We skipped round the fields, saw cow barns, horse barns and avery scales. We hopped onto the tractor to have a cheeky photo in it and gazed at the sheep. It was truly magical and I couldn't help my self from going into my own day dream of what it would have been like to be a child and grow up here. Jumping around in the brook, chasing the sheep. It would have been magical. I didn't have much time to day dream about being a small girl here as we had to hurry of to Jill's sisters for some tea and home made yummies.

The next few days were jam packed of fun and surprise. We explored Belfast, dressed up in silly primark glasses, giggled, visited a local club called Time as well what would any girls uni reunion be without a good old night out. We got drunk, we sang. We visited the local port for dinner and a fun fair. We spent time with each other. We stayed at her caravan and had late night beach walks and playground fun. We joked. We watched scary movies in her big old empty farm house and scared our selves silly. We laughed. We visited the giants causeway and stared at its beauty. We had a fantastic time.

The days and nights flew by and before I knew it, it was time for Alison and I to hop back on our plan back to England. I had so much fun in Northern Ireland. I'm already planning my next trip for this new year. Hopefully all us girls can be together again.
I hope your May 2013 was as lovely and busy as mine was. If you can remember i'd love to hear your thoughts? Have any of you lovely tea drinkers adventured over to Northern Ireland before or maybe you live there?

Until my next post wonderfuls.
X

The Month of May: Love's War & the boyfriends dissertation

Hello Sweets !

The month of May was an extremely busy month for me! In between work, I was starring in one of my closest friends film dissertation called 'Love's War", helping the boy with his dissertation, my weekly Wednesday helping hand at the Rose Youth Theater and a short trip across the sea to Northern Ireland on a visit to see my best friend in her home land. Can you say busy, busy, busy?! I've decided to split this into two posts otherwise it could get rather lengthy and we don't want you dropping off into your cups of teas !

Love's War

So, during the month of May acting and being in front of a camera was very much a regular thing. Now I'm no stranger to being in front of a camera but I was nervous! I may not be a stranger to film acting but i'm certainly no expert after having only done one previous short film before this one. So yeah, I had some butterflies! These butterflies were partly because I felt a bit rusty, partly because I felt slightly out of my comfort zone, partly because I didn't want to let my friend down but mainly because our scene involved fire, and a lot of it! So when our time came I settled down in the back of the car with my tummy full of butterflies and I started to loose myself in my own daydreams gripping my boyfriends hand as I let my thoughts take me somewhere that did not involve fire! 

We shortly arrived at our set and with us already being in our costumes we headed up the bumpy path which soon quickly opened out onto a wide stretch of bare fields and rubble with two trenches dug out at either side and a partly burnt door in the center of it all. It was slightly calming until Josh approached with petrol then pulled out a lighter, and then informed me that I was going to be walking bare foot along a firey path and then opening up a burning door to reveal my boyfriend on the other side! This was named "The Lovers Sequence". I think now might be the right time to give you all a brief description of the film! So the film is an abstract film on war. Josh shows in the film different images of war, love and the dying men's last visions so to speak of the loves they have left at home. For example there girlfriends, mums, brothers, friends. It's filled with dance, acting and still images and in my opinion a very lovely and gripping piece. Anyway back to the day! So as we started to set up I had realised that I had left a part of my costume at home (I blame the nerves) ! So Ian and I ran and jumped into his car and drove hastily back to the house so I could grab my shirt, then we quickly made a cheeky cup of tea (ssshh don't tell the others) and 

headed back on our merry way clutching our mugs. 

Yes Ian was driving whilst sipping his tea!

So the shoot went on and it was wonderful and not dangerous at all! Josh made it extremely safe and fun. I really do love working with those boys, they create magical things with their camera's and over all he got a strong first for his short film. Very well deserved!

All photographs taken either by Joshua Gwynne, Samuel Joseph Wall, Ian Casey, Jessica Rose McGee or using a tripod.

The Boys Dissertation

I am going to keep this short but sweet as I got a tinsy bit carried away with "Love's War" ! However it doesn't mean that I am not proud of my boy!

When Ian Dressed as a tramp for a victim Photo

So my lovely Sammie's dissertation was a short performance loosely based on Jekyll and Hyde and Elementary (the new take on Sherlock Holmes, if you haven't watched it yet i highly recommend it). It was about a detective investigating a string of murders involving a man called Kane. After some serious investigating happening in front us it became clear that Kane was in fact the alter ego of said detective. Some serious stuff! The piece was filled with riddles and clues ending in a hard hitting confrontation between the two personalities! It really was a truly gripping piece. My boy worked so hard on this piece and had me and one of our good friends called Vicky in there until the earlier hours of the morning watching, commenting and helping him out. It all payed of though as he got a fantastic grade of 2:1 for it! In my eyes he should have got a first but only we know how much time was spent writing and preparing

 himself for such a demanding piece of drama. I am so very proud of him though, my shining star!

Until next time my fellow day dreamers! 

X

A little apology note

Hello there lovlies.

This is just a small wee post to apologise about my severe lack of posting, I am aware its been over a month since I last wrote anything for you guys to read and i'm ever so sorry about this. It's been extremely hard for me to find time to write to you all about what I have been up to ! Ive been extremely busy, you see it was boyfriend's dissertation and what with me already doing mine last year he grabbed all my free time in helping him achieve a fantastic piece. With in that month of me catching up to speed on all the different performance practioners and sitting in his rehearsals to give him feed back and help him create what he had in his mind onto stage I was also juggling work and my volunteering at the youth theatre ! On top of that I took an adventure to Northern Ireland and then off to wales for my birthday ! Not to mention moving out, moving back home only to move out again next week ! So as you can see ive been rather on the busy side ! I'm hopeless at finding time to do so much and blog as well BUT I promise you all this is about to change. I have got a busy couple of days catching up with all my old friends before I leave and not to mention heading down to Liverpool on the Wednesday to watch the final performance of the youth theatre but tonight after I have started dinner I am going to make myself a good cup of tea and aim to write you 2 whole blog posts with what I have been up to the past 2 months...pictures and all ! And then one next week with what ive been doing before I leave Warwick for the final time (well kind of as my brother and dad will still be living here !)

Once again I am really sorry...I bet you all thought I had given up... trust me I started to believe I had done as well ! But this is going to change. I enjoy this far too much.

So keep an eye out in the next couple of hours you should have 2 shiny new posts to read and keep you entertained!

Until then my sweets

x


update: I was also starring in my friends dissertation film piece as well ! Such a busy bee i've been !