Win tickets to see Taylor Swift!

Okay, London pals, listen up! The nice people at Seatwave have given me two tickets to give away to see the country-pop superstar of brilliant hair and excellent dresses, Taylor Swift, on Monday 10th February at the O2 Arena, London.

I AM SO JEALOUS.

Seatwave, it you ain't heard of it, is an online marketplace where fans can buy and sell tickets for gigs (from Chvrches to Lady Gaga tickets) , theatre, sport, and any other live event you can think of. It means you don't have to totally stress out when gigs sell out in an instant (I'm looking at you, Beyonce), and it removes the stress of dealing with potentially dodgy people on gumtree!

If you would like to enter, please fill in the form below. You need to be able to travel to London on Monday evening, so please enter only if you can go along (although this is, of course, a perfect excuse for a last-minute London trip), and you have to tell Taylor that I think she has wonderful hair. Enjoy!

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A weekend in Paris

Hello everyone! Did you have a good long weekend? I did! Craig & I went on a (sort of) impromptu trip to Paris - one of the most ridiculous but fun decisions we've made for quite a while!

A couple of weeks ago we had been trying to plan a way that we could go and see Jay Z & Kanye's Watch the Throne tour. They weren't playing Scotland so it was looking like our only option was to drive to a venue in England straight from work, and then drive back immediately after the gig (as neither of us can take time off work this month). Zzzzz. No thanks!

But hoorah hooraah, they were playing in Paris on Saturday night. We could fly over early on the Saturday morning from Edinburgh & leave on the Sunday night. Perfect!

Saturday afternoon was SCORCHING - about twenty five degrees and barely a cloud in the sky! Neither of us had brought sun cream (uh oh) but miraculously we didn't burn at all! We wandered the streets, got to grips with the metro, practised our (bad bad bad) French and had a nice wee lunch in view of the Eiffel Tower ("un grande sauvignon blanc, s'il vous plait").

We stayed at the Five Hotel who upgraded us to one of their penthouse rooms with a "floating" bed! It was a ridiculous (but lovely) room with cute little balconies and a ceiling covered in tiny little lights that looked like stars. It was perfect!

The gig was at the Bercy stadium - after a massively nervous wait to pick up our tickets (two groups were turned away.. looked like they had booked tickets for the previous night - gutted for them!) we were IN. There was no support act, just Jay Z and Kanye and it was amazing. I think quite possibly the best gig I've ever been to !

At the end they closed with "Paris" and the whole audience just went mental - I think they played the song on repeat about eleven or twelve times? Incredible. INCREDIBLE. Worth the whole trip!

The next day we cleared our heads with early-morning macaron shopping, and a lovely breakfast of croissants and coffee at a tiny patisserie. Mm!

Then we ticked a few more must-see sights off our list (the Louvre and Notre Dame) and ate our macarons in a park watching an orchestra!

Such a WONDERFUL weekend. If I can find cheap weekend flights to Paris then I'll definitely be back!

T in the Park

T in the Park! It was brilliant. Even the bus up to Balado was fun. 

Sunshine, mustache pints, N Dubz (with thrones), Ke$ha (so awful, but funny), the Saturdays, Three Blind Wolves, Jimmy Eat World (brilliant), Scottish Opera (unexpected!), Beyonce (amazing), Professor Green, the Pretty Reckless (.. oh dear), Blondie (was bored), Weezer (ace!), Pulp, Tinie Tempah (brilliant crowd) and Foo Fighters. Phew. We watched more pop than planned, but had an amazing time.

& the sun even came out! 

Before we got completely sun burnt (we are Scottish)

Rivers in a very fetching T poncho

Mustache pints!

Chilling in the pod garden

Bin bag chic

I'm absolutely knackered today, but it was totally worth it. Well done T! 

& I promise I'm not going to become a gif addict, but here's Rae, Charlotte & me doing our best Beyonce Single Ladies dance. SO MUCH FUN!

Tweedlove

Good weekend! We went on a mini road trip to Peebles, saw Frightened Rabbit, were delighted that it was called Tweedlove (cause, I'm a Tweed) & sang along. Today was derby & a brilliant practice with some scrimmaging, then an outdoor screening of Indiana Jones (Raiders of the Lost Ark). Ace!

It was WET in Peebles. 

The river Tweed. Hiya!

We found an ace wee traditional pub. 

& ate really tasty food.

Then off to the gig!

Hi Frabbits!

Craig took a video on his fancy new phone, which is below. The sound quality is really good! & you can hear his lovely singing voice (har har har).

Thanks Tweedlove, that was fun!