HASTA BARISTA, BABY.

Alternatively titled: 20 Annoying Things I've Experienced As A Barista.

Until this week, and since March, I'd been working in an unnamed coffee shop on Oxford Street - first part-time, then full-time once I'd finished uni (that £50,000 of debt and the nice diploma sure seem worth it at the moment). Working on potentially the busiest shopping street in the world, I think it's fair to say that I came across quite the range of characters over the past few months.

As I'm no longer working at aforementioned coffee shop, I thought I'd compile a list of twenty irritating situations I consistently found myself in as a barista in order to commemorate my time there. I have no doubt some of them apply to anyone who works in any kind of customer service role as well, so please, enjoy.

NEW MUSIC FAVOURITES: OCTOBER 2017

I've been itching to get back into blogging properly but what with having a ridiculously inconsistent work schedule I just haven't had the time to really sit down and write. However, I'm about to start a new job that's Monday-Friday, and this is incredibly exciting as I may now have time to actually, I dunno, live my life, I guess. I'm being slightly lazy here and going with a favourites post to ease my way back into things, but I'll be back with some more #original #content soon.

REMEMBERING PARIS.

Hello. It's now officially been a full year since I moved away from Paris, and while I haven't gone into how I felt about my year abroad too much on this blog, I thought I'd take a moment to look back upon some of my favourite photos I took while I was there. Some of them are my faves because they remind me of certain moments, some of them I like because I think they're cool, others just look pretty. I hope you like them too! (N.B.: I didn't realise quite how ubiquitous the Eiffel Tower was during my time in Paris until I looked through these photos. She likes to make her presence known, doesn't she?)

LOVELY, LITTLE, LONELY REVIEW.

YIKES. It's been a while. In my defence, my final year of university has been kicking my derrière and I now have a lil' part-time job which means that any free time I have is somewhat short-lived. I love writing blog posts but for me they're a multiple-hours commitment (what with planning, writing, editing, more editing, making the graphics and all that jazz) and I just haven't had the time to really get down to writing something. Regardless, I am here right now with an album review and I'm excited to share it.

It seems like only yesterday that I was writing my very first album review on this blog. It was The Maine's 2015 release American Candy. Yet, time did that thing it does, and it took me to right here today, two years later, with a review of the band's sixth studio album, Lovely, Little, Lonely (released on 7th April). To say I was excited for the record would be a prodigious understatement. I love The Maine and everything they stand for with all of my cold-to-lukewarm heart and soul. However, this post is not supposed to be about my relentless admiration for the band as people (although let's be honest, this probably will feature fairly heavily), so how about we start with my track-by-track review?

2016 IN CONCERTS.

I've always loved taking photos at gigs. I used to sneak my DSLR into venues - sometimes even with my giant zoom lens - and never once got caught. One time I was fifth row at the Radio 1 Teen Awards and ended up with some great photos of One Direction and Taylor Swift. It seems funny now, because multiple times this year venue staff during bag-check have told me that my little Olympus E-PL7 isn't allowed because it has a detachable lens and that deems it 'professional'. (What does that even mean, anyway?) Nonetheless, because I am me, and am remarkably persuasive when I want to be, on every one of these occasions I managed to convince each staff member to let me bring the camera in regardless (mostly I exasperate them and they just give up, but hey, you gotta do what you gotta do). With that, allow me to present to you some of my favourite photos from the various gigs I attended this year (fifteen in total, but only nine of them feature in this post), taken with the aforementioned ~forbidden camera~.