The Brownlies embrace Summer

Hey everyone! So the weather in the central belt in Scotland has been absolutely stunning for the best part of the past month and as I am currently enjoying a 10 day holiday of work me and my family have been trying to make the most of the weather.

Today was actually pretty horrible for the most part but from 4pm we had glorious sunshine that spurred the family to have a picnic dinner in our local nature reserve, a place we used to frequent when me and Lisa were little kids. 

It's actually a pretty day, the family have been talking a lot lately about spending more time visiting places for leisure, especially now that all 4 of us have full time jobs and can put money away for days out together. I dunno if any of you do similar things where you make time to visit places with family?

So anyway today was a lovely change for us all and I am totally looking forwardto doing similar things again as a family. I feel like we don't get nearly enough time to have days out and explore new places and noone likes to be stuck in the same places for long periods of time. 

So here are a few photos from our day out!

 

So as you guys can see it really was such a pretty place to have a picnic and a walk about.

Today I also managed to finally film a make up tutorial on how i wear my make up for work so that's all been edited and is ready for the voice over tomorrow so I'll hopefully have that uploaded tomorrow night or Thursday!

Graduation!

Hey you guys! This week I have some photos of my graduation to share with you. Graduation was about 3 weeks ago and it is still a bit of a shock to the system that I am no longer in any type of education. I keep going to work and thinking "damnit this is life now!"

Graduation was an intensely crazy day that started at half 5 for myself and my family (something they really were not too thrilled about) and involved a 2 hour round trip in the car, a lunch date, a dinner and i dunno how many alcoholic beverages and photos. 

I have to admit that dawning my graduation gown after what feels like the quickest 4 years of my life was totally surreal. When I arrived at the church I was on my own as well so I had already kinda entered into freak out mode over how to make my hood sit flat, how to stop my hair sitting flat and when on earth my family were going to haul ass away from their Wetherspoons breakfast and come join me!

The ceremony itself flew in and if I'm honest I think my university kind of rushed through the handing out of the degrees, my campus in total only comprises of 150 or so students, much less than other universities so they could have maybe given us a second or so on stage so our family got a chance to take a photo or something. One second I was about to get my degree, the next I was back in my seat wondering where the hell my graduation programme had escaped to amongst the chaos of my row standing up and sitting down again.

After graduation my entire graduating class had refreshments in Gala House which had stunning grounds which made for some fantastic photos of us all with our degrees, we were lucky to have absolutely stunning weather by Scotlands standards and by this point the parents of the class were well into celebration mode. 

So all that's really left for me to do is share with you some of the photos of my day and hopefully the video of my degree will upload on here as well for you all to see. 

All in all graduation is a totally surreal and yet enjoyable day for you and your class, we definitely had a crazy day and made of with some even crazier photos to comemorate it! 

 

 

 

 

 The above is my absolute fave photo of the day hahaha!!

So there you have it!