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Giving up on the ballerina dream and falling back in love with dance
Like a lot of little girls I went to ballet classes from the age of three. Pink everywhere, tiny ballet shoes, and hair clips - that was...
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IndiaLily
- Sep 17
- 6 min
Solo travel: A tour of Europe
I've done solo travel (loosely speaking) three times now. America in 2017 to work in a camp for the summer then travel a bit after, and...
IndiaLily
- Aug 21
- 6 min
Two novices take on the 'curly girl method'
I've always had curly hair. Mum has tight ringlets but mine is much looser than that. It's very thick so needs to be cut and layered to...
IndiaLily
- May 14
- 4 min
My weekend in Bath
Before I kick things off - I love Bath and want to retire there. That really is the overall summary of this piece. I'd never been to Bath...
IndiaLily
- Mar 19
- 2 min
My experience of a tarot card reading
Don't role your eyes yet, I was sceptical too. I'd never really thought anything of tarot card readings before, I'm not into fortune...
IndiaLily
- Mar 6
- 3 min
My experience with covid: Omicron wasn't mild
I managed to avoid catching covid for a couple of years but it finally caught up with me last month. Omicron has been labelled everywhere...
IndiaLily
- Jan 15
- 3 min
My experience of speed dating
I wasn't going to write about this but after going, a lot of people asked me about it out of pure curiousity, so I figured I'd share it!...
IndiaLily
- Dec 19, 2021
- 5 min
My review of 2021
It's fair to say after 2020 we all thought 2021 would see things get back to normal...how wrong we were. Looking back at my review of...
IndiaLily
- Nov 20, 2021
- 3 min
Scotland holiday in November
Yes you did read that right, I chose to go to Scotland in November for a holiday. With how the marathon timings worked out and my shift...
IndiaLily
- Oct 23, 2021
- 5 min
My marathon experience: Part 3
Final marathon piece now I promise. If you haven't seen part 1 and part 2 catch up with those first. The day Annoyingly I got an eye...
IndiaLily
- Oct 9, 2021
- 8 min
My marathon experience: Part 2
If you're coming to this blind, I suggest you read part 1 just to get some background. This piece will cover the whole traning process,...
IndiaLily
- Aug 22, 2021
- 5 min
Everything I've learnt from living independently
To give you some background, I moved out when I went to uni in Leceister. I lived in halls for first year, then a student house for the...
IndiaLily
- Jul 24, 2021
- 4 min
Lessons learnt: Music festivals
This year might not be the same in terms of the amount of festivals going ahead, but it's still much better than last year when the whole...
IndiaLily
- May 1, 2021
- 3 min
Letter to my 10-year-old self
Okay so this is another piece on this blog that isn't really for anyone else other than myself. I've never been a diary-writer, every...
IndiaLily
- Mar 13, 2021
- 4 min
My history with body confidence
Whenever you hear the words ‘body shaming’, straight away people jump to the image of someone being trolled for being seen as ‘too fat’....
IndiaLily
- Feb 14, 2021
- 5 min
Nine years of waitressing
Now I’m sure like many others, prior to going into my ‘career job’ I did my fair share of part-time waitressing, pint pulling, and...
IndiaLily
- Jan 30, 2021
- 4 min
My marathon experience: Part 1
It’s written down now so I guess I can’t back out. That’s right…I’ve bitten the bullet and I'm doing a marathon, something that has been...
IndiaLily
- Dec 28, 2020
- 3 min
My review of 2020
2021 is nearly upon us…thank goodness. It can only be an improvement compared to this year, and I think I speak for everyone when I say...
IndiaLily
- Dec 12, 2020
- 4 min
Moving away from home: Three months on
It’s now been a few months since I moved away to start my job as a trainee reporter here in Eastbourne. If you want to check out my...
IndiaLily
- Nov 1, 2020
- 3 min
Travelling in America as a 19-year-old
After spending the summer working at a camp in Pennsylvania (click here to read that one) and meeting loads of new people, the general...
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