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Last night was supposed to be the biggest event ever held by Rum&Bass raves, which had 5.5k attending. The location was in East Croydon, which wasn't much of a treck for me but it still took time to get there. After having spent an hour waiting around Kings Cross station, we headed off to the first location in process of getting to the rave, which was London Victoria. There we stayed for another 40 minutes or so waiting until 10pm for the second phone line to tell us where to go next.

Eventually we finally got told to get on the train to east croydon, the station was full of massive groups on their way to the rave, so it was pretty busy. After a train ride which felt like 40 minutes rather than 20, we got off and headed onto the streets to find where to go. The amount of people wondering around was actually crazy, we then got to the our destination, where it looked like the scene of a riot. There were police cars and vans everywhere, a group of policemen with shields. Furniture, fire extinguishers and missiles were being thrown around, in the end the feds left and we were allowed to start entering the building. We were stuck in the que for about 3 hours, I was too cold, tired and felt ill by this point so I decided to just leave and get the train home. Definitely glad I didn't stay, being around a load of violent, abusive people was not the one.

Once I got home, after an 8 hour long sleep I decided to post one of my videos that I had taken whilst the feds were around. I then got a comment from an ITV London news reporter asking me permission to use my video, and if so to email it to him. I've never been so excited in my life.

Old post office in East Croydon

^ the video that was used.

Illegal Croydon Rave - ITV News London 15.06.2014

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New month New stories

Hey! 

I haven't posted in about 2 weeks so I thought I may as well just make a lil update - I've quit my part time job at that bakery I was temporarily working at and moved back to the photography studios in Kentish. I haven't really left the house much so I've go no new photos taken, apart from 1 of my OOTD yesterday! Today I will be going into college to sort out my photography portfolio for an interview at a different college, as I will be leaving my current school before the summer holidays start. Hopefully I will get a place there - if not I will just stick to helping in the studios until I find something I want to do. 

There really isn't much else to say in this post really, but I will be up and about this weekend so hopefully I will have a load of new pictures to upload! Until then, stay happy :)

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Beyond Retro

On Friday the 30th of May two friends of mine and I planned to go somewhere into Central London to take some photographs and to chill about. So around 1pm I was going to meet Sara at my station, turns out someone happened to have jumped infront of a train so the lines we needed to use had some pretty bad delays. In the end she got here after being about 40 minutes late, which wasn't too bad. We then got going on the Northern line to Kings Cross station, then got the metropolitan line to Liverpool Street station. Hopefully assuming our other friend would be there, turned out that his dad wasn't allowing him to come out, which was a shame but it didn't really matter as we could just re-schedule. That didn't stop Sara and I continuing the day without him.

First we started off with a walk towards the Lomography shop to see if they sold any Polaroid film, since I was running low, but also realised I was running low on money too. The shop had stopped selling the film I needed to we moves along to Rough Trade to take some photobooth pictures;

Afterwards we set off for a random walk along a little road full of shops and bars, we stopped at this wall with a big picture of some woman posing, deciding it was a good place to take a decent picture.  Right round the corner was a shop called Beyond Retro, we went inside and chose a load of random, strange patterned clothes to make some crazy outfits and take pictures of them. Sadly I don't have all the pictures on here, but it was very interesting. Whilst walking along this main road picking up random stickers off some pipes and walls to keep for scrap memories which I will show in my next post we started walking back to where we started since it was just leading to a load of dodgy areas and un-interesting shops. I wanted to take another photobooth picture to put on my wall in my bedroom for all my memories, so we walked back to Rough Trade.

We weren't too sure on what to do next, plus going back home would be boring so we got back on the tube towards St Pauls, which then lead to walking along the Thames for a little bit. After grabbing a quick drink from costa coffee and sitting by the water, it got way too cold so we set off again to sit by the London Eye. This was our last destination then we came back to my house to charge our phones and plan what was going to happen next. At this point it was about 7 in the afternoon, we still wanted to stay out so after a long time trying to think of a place to go we went to pick up some Jagermeister and headed off to Camden Lock to sit by the canal and have a little drink. Another friend of mine then messaged me to see what we were up to, and mentioned how dodgy hanging around the canal can be at night so we decided to leave and go back to the station. It was getting quite late and Sara needed to get home soon, so instead of hanging about in Camden we got on the tube to Bakers Street to get a chicken burrito from Chipotle, which is heaven. Once we got there the chicken would've taken around 10 minutes to cook so we got pork instead... which wasn't as good, but it was good enough.

After that was finished we both head off home in opposite directions.

I gotta say it was a pretty successful day for me, as usually when I make plans with people I just get cancelled on. So I'm very happy! :)

Beyond Retro

By the canal

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Haribo Engagement

I stayed at my boyfriends house last night, and it was absolutely perfect. Apart from a few mood swings at times and some silences with cuddles it was such a good night. But now I've got to wait about a week until I see him next, which is sad but it's so worth the wait. I'm really hoping to go on some little trip/holiday somewhere together for my birthday, would be so perfect. 

But once again I don't have much to talk about. The rave that I was supposed to go to on Saturday night has now been moved to next weekend. Hopefully this time it won't get shut down, and the night won't flop.

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Dead night

Last night was James's birthday, we were supposed to go out raving for the night so me and a good friend met up early and chilled for a bit until it was time to meet at Kings Cross station. We got there at 9, and hung around till 9:40. He decided to buy me a hot chocolate because it was so cold, finally some people turned up, but we then found out that the rave was shut down. For the next 2 hours we were just standing around in the cold wondering what to do with ourselves. Half of the group wanted to leave and go back to one of their houses, the other group wanted to continue to find this different rave which was somewhere local. So we all split up and went different ways.

In the end we all ended up together anyway, and the second rave we found was also shut down.. so for the rest of the night (at least the next 5 hours) was just spent roaming the streets, running away from feds and chilling in parks. Definitely wasn't the best night I'd ever had, also completely failed but it was still nice spending so much time with all my friends :) 

Hopefully next time won't be as dead.

4am walk home

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*Update*

So I've only just woken up from spending 10 hours of constant walking in the cold, and I am dying for a nice hot bath, and some tea with a movie. I doubt I'll be meeting up with anyone today let alone talking to them. So it's off to relax for me now! I just thought I'd share a new dress I bought recently. 

Now I'm off. I'll be sure to update soon!

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Eat Sleep Rave Repeat

Tonight I am going to Chaotic Waves rave for a different friends birthday. I will be taking my disposable camera so hopefully I'll get some shots and videos throughout the night. There isn't much to say now, so I'll just show you my things for the evening.

Once I've taken the pictures I will have to go and get them developed, so it will take some time to upload them but I will get it done as soon as possible.

I've also re-filled my polaroid with some new film so I should get some things taken for my memory wall :)

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