From Country Girl to City Girl

So as many of you many know I have recently moved. I have spent nearly all of my life living in the countryside, apart from the last two years when I have been by the sea. But I have never lived near, in or around a city. Until now!

As a country girl there are several things you pick up on as soon as you move to a city, which coming from the outside in appear quite peculiar to begin with. So I thought as a little giggle you would like to know the things which are so different moving to a major city.

Here are the top 5 biggest changes in my everyday life from Country Girl to City Girl

1. Hardly anyone smiles!

Walking around the city everyone is so busy they have the headphones in or they are on the phone, and hardly anyone smiles at one another!

2. No one talks on public transport!

This is the one which I found the most strange, but no one says a word. Now I wouldn't want to talk to a stranger but I mean as in no one talks. The most surreal situation, I was waiting for a bus the other morning (the one before had been cancelled) but there must have been close to 50 people waiting for this one bus, all in an orderly queue (got to love being British) but I am not kidding, you could have heard a pin drop! Not one person spoke it was really eerie, all those people and just complete silence!

3. Crossings are always busy!

I am used to coming from small places where it is rare there are more than two or three people waiting to cross a road. In a major city you are always on of at least 10 waiting to cross the road, and when you get to the really busy parts you are sometimes one 50, 60 sometimes more!

4. Hardly anyone reads an actual book!

I get a bus most mornings, and I am used to people having books, magazines, newspapers. Now the bus which I get carries newspapers so that hasn't changed. But people don't read books, everyone either has a kindle or are using their smart phones for books or to read the news. I felt very old school when I was sat on the bus the other day and was rocking out with my paperback :)

5.  Breakfast Meetings!

Now this one I LOVE! I am a huge foodie! :) Not sure if you may have noticed that already! Me and a friend started doing breakfast together in my old job, and we were definitely amongst the minority. But in a city people are so busy, they are trying to cram in work, friends and general life in at every given moment of the day just to try and get everything done, everyone is always in a hurry. But I have noticed just how many people go to breakfast together in the mornings and I love it. I met with a friend recently for breakfast before work and it was lovely, there aren't many nicer ways to start the day other than with good food and good company!


Life in a city is certainly a lot different to being in a seaside town or a smaller city/town. I have to say though that I am loving city life, I love the busyness of it all. But I have the best of both worlds, I am in the city but my family are still in the country so I still have the option of a quiet retreat to the countryside when I want it :)

Another dangerous plus to being close to a major city centre is the fact that I am now close to a very big Boots, which means that I can browse around more makeup than I have ever had the chance to before. This is a very dangerous (but one of the most fun) parts to living in a city.

Keep smiling :)

xoxo E

Fancy being a little bit nosey?

If you fancy being a little bit nosey (lets face it will all do sometimes) then why not come on over to my YouTube channel and have a little snoop in my handbag!

This is my first ever tag video... as always with my channel I have tried to stick to things which I think you will find interesting, but also the videos which I find myself watching the most. And out of all the tag videos which are floating around at the moment this is the one which I find myself looking at the most!

So I hope you enjoying delving into the depths of my handbag with me and having a little look at all the things I tend to carry on me pretty much on an every day basis, but I do switch it up every now and then!

As always if you have any comments please feel free to leave them on the video or leave them on here, and if you have any videos which you would like to see let me know and I will try and get those uploaded.

I have loads of goodies coming up so stay tuned.

For now though, stay positive and I'll catch up with you soon!

xoxo E

In the dark ages!

For those of you who hadn't worked it out from the last blog, I have recently moved house. However as most people who have moved know, moving house means that you are temporarily plunged into a black hole, with no communication to the outside world.

I am now on my second week of no landline, mobile phone signal, internet, or TV (however the TV was connected yesterday!) For the first week I was enjoying it, lovely peace and quiet, just me and my music while I unpacked boxes. Second week I am not enjoying it quite so much, and have come to realise how much all of us rely on the internet for nearly everything! And when it is finally connected in my new home, I will never take it for granted! For now though while still living semi in the black hole (at least now I can watch the news and know if the world was coming to an end) I am hopping between internet cafes.

I am one of those people who loves to people watch, so this is an ideal opportunity. Just set up my laptop, grab a drink and watch the world go by. I have to say it's lovely watching people in a city, you really do get all walks of life go by. I have been filming in the small gaps of time which I have managed to snatch, so I will upload when I get a chance! Sorry its been so quiet my end for a while!

I hope you are all ok, and still doing your positive thinking! Don't forget! It has helped me a lot recently, especially moving so far away from family. I am just lucky that I adore the place which I have moved to which has made the move a lot easier!

Always be grateful for the things which you have and the opportunities which are yet to come. I have done a lot of thinking recently about what it means to be happy in life, be successful, and how anyone finds true inner peace with who they are and what they are doing. If you are now hoping for a wonderful insight into eternal happiness, I am sorry but its not going to happen (haven't figured that one out yet!). But I am reading a really good book on how to live in peace with everything around you, and in a time of such huge change, this has been a little peace of reassurance in my belief that everything is for a reason.

For anyone else going through major change that may be reading this, take comfort in the fact that I am having more than unsettling time! Literally my whole life since 6 weeks ago has changed unrecognisably. But good things will come from this, and it is worth going through the hard times for what will be at the other end!

Keep faith that it will all be ok... I am :)

xoxo E