Jessica Joseph: Lifestyle

Sunday, 17 July 2016

June

June according to my iPhone

My last few weeks in Leeds

Goodbye drinks and welcome drinks

Enjoying a few days off

Sunshine (at last!)

Moving into a new flat

Exploring London

As I'm sat here surrounded by boxes and suitcases, I can’t quite believe I'm moving again, for the fifth time in as many years. I'm super excited and of course, a little bit nervous. If you follow me on twitter, you may have already seen that I'm moving to the place where dreams are made, the big smoke, the hustle and bustle filled capital city.

May

May according to my iPhone

Sunshine!

Beautiful sunsets on evening runs

Food vans and cocktails

Catching up with friends

The Garden Party

Two bank holiday weekends

A lovely spa morning

My first hen do

The Alchemist Trinity Leeds | Summer Menu

The Alchemist Trinity Leeds cocktail terrace

One of my favourite places in Leeds to enjoy the sunshine with a cocktail in hand is The Alchemist in Trinity. In fact, it’s also one of my top picks for dinner too. I did a post a few months back all about the restaurant, which you can read here. When I received an invite to a blogger event on the roof terrace to launch a new menu of summer drinks, I think I RSVP’d in approximately three seconds flat.

April

April according to my iPhone

Three trips to lovely London
Blossom and blue skies
Impromptu trip to the seaside
An infamous Franco Manco pizza

Bubbledogs (best hot dog ever)
Drinks on the Benefit ship
My first guest post (on the Oliver Bonas blog)

Fun Hygiene with Carex + Giveaway

Last week I received a little pack of goodies in the post from the team at Carex who are getting involved in a campaign created by the World Health Organisation. On Thursday 5th May the World Health Organisation are hosting Clean Your Hands Day to promote the importance of hand hygiene and infection prevention. As Carex are constantly expanding their range it seemed like the perfect occasion to try out some of their newer products.

Epernay Champagne Bar | Leeds

A couple of weeks ago I was invited to Épernay Champagne Bar in the centre of Leeds, along with a few other bloggers, to try out the new summer cocktail menu. I'm a huge cocktail fan and am always on the hunt for new places to try, so I was really excited when I received an invite to a bar I hadn't visited before.

March

March according to my iPhone

Attending more blogger events

Exploring the Yorkshire countryside

KAWS at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Witnessing a pug meet-up (amazing)

A trip to the seaside

One chilled bank holiday weekend

Celebrating lots of birthdays

The start of brighter and longer evenings

Easter on the East Coast

On Good Friday me and the girls decided to make the most of the one day of sunshine forecast for the Easter weekend and take a trip to the seaside. After a long and winding three hours and twenty minutes (still absolutely no idea why it took us so long to get there - the traffic wasn't even bad!) we arrived at Scarborough seafront. By this point we were all starving and had one, understandably, restless little baby on our hands so we headed straight for fish and chips.

Roxy Ball Room in the heart of Leeds is one of the most popular places for us young things to hang nowadays (or so I hear) but until a couple of weeks ago I'd never actually been. With the option to play pool, ping pong, beer pong and mini golf it really is the first place of its kind to pop up in Leeds. It's a great place to go straight from work if you work in the centre, or even on a date to cancel out the possibility of any awkward silent atmospheres.

Being a feminist isn't a bad thing

Today is International Women's Day and I wanted to share a post highlighting the importance of celebrating and being proud of who you are. It doesn't mean we should be raging feminists and hate all men, but being a feminist to a certain degree and fighting for equality for women is something we should all strive towards.

February

February according to my iPhone

Pancake Day!

Gal-entine's Day with one of my main gals

Too much eating and drinking in London

My mum's 50th birthday

Seeing Wicked on the West End

Battle of the Burger in Leeds

My first trip to The Shard

Lots of lovely sunsets

The Blogger's Hangout | LFW

Last weekend I visited my favourite city to try and catch some of the London Fashion Week excitement and catch up with a few friends. I saw that the Bloggers Hangout were holding an event on Monday and stayed an extra day to go and check it out. There were loads of brands and bloggers involved so it was a great place to network and meet new people but it was super busy so I didn't stay for as long as I would of liked.

January

January according to my iPhone

Lots of lovely sunsets

Catching up with my London pals

Buying my first print for the flat

Eating out way too often

Losing all of the pictures on my phone (sad times)

Enjoying some quiet nights after Christmas

16 Goals for 2016

I never wrote down any real new year's resolutions this year because, without beating around the bush, I don't stick to them. I'm not a fan of routine, I like being spontaneous and just doing stuff when I feel like it. Generally speaking, it means my ideas and plans change frequently and with that, my aims and what I want to achieve change alongside them *the struggles of a creative mind* (that was sarcasm - hard to convey on the internet).

What I got for Christmas 2015

I'm aware that these kind of posts are controversial. Some people love them, some people hate them but I, for one, love having a nosey at what other people have been buying or received as a gift. I'm also aware that Christmas has now been and gone but better late than never, right?