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Heya all hows you first week of January been?
My week back at uni starts this week and I’m looking forward to having the structure back in place but dreading the stress of everything that I have been putting off for so long being due in… helppp. Dissertation feels like it’s looming over me and the sooner I get going with it the better I reckon.
I thought I would share with you some pictures of the snow we got a few weeks ago. It was really lovely to take a walk as we don’t get snow very often and having lived in Australia for a lot of my childhood it’s still quite novel to me!
 
 

Trees crack white carpet,
Bleached blurs, land to sky,
Twigs freeze in cold and motion,
Kite shakes and sails by,
 
Bitter sting of breeze,
Wellies crunch and slip,
Silence blankets hungry land,
Ice on branches grip

I also have started to get on with my new years goals and drew this picture of a rabbit. Must admit this is not from my own mind and is copied but I enjoyed doing it none the less! iIspired me to draw more often. Started reading Turtles all the way down and am really enjoying it as a book and also just getting back into reading in general. Im literally dying with my exercises and just trying to hold onto motivation to keep going with I. My legs feel like jelly today but I have already found that working out prior to a driving lesson definitely helped me to stay calmer so I MUST STICK TO IT. My body literally screams at me to stop… it doesn’t like me very much at the moment hahaha! Been looking at doing some volunteering and just hoping that it all works out timing wise. About to start making my vision board to help me to visualise all the things that are most important to me for the year ahead. I do one every year and I find it really lovely to look at every day and really see what’s important to me to stop me getting focussed on the little things. Big picture people.

Hope you all have a great week!

Lozzy

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