The mindless rambling of yet another Sophie

On the 26th of August 2015 I went on an adventure and decided in a Caffe Nero, whilst shovelling cheesecake in my mouth, that now was the time to start a blog. A year on and I am still writing! I've been putting off posting for a number of reasons but then my blog's birthday came and went and I knew I needed to say something. ***Happy Birthday to yetanothersophie! ***   I am still only a little blog sailing about in the great wide ocean of the internet just letting the current guide me. But, I would just like to thank everyone who has read or supported my blog over the past year. Slowly but surely my writing confidence has been increasing and although I am no Dickens or Austen by any stretch of the imagination, and probably never will be, this blog has given me the motivation to keep writing and to keep developing ideas instead of letting them rot in my brain space. A year is a long time and for me to have committed to a project for such a long amount of time is a ...

Today is my 21st birthday and I had a whole other post planned for today when something unexpected happened - my grandma died. Now here's the thing; I haven't spoken to her in over 10 years and she was very old so it wasn't too much of a shock. The next unexpected thing was that my Aunt who I haven't spoken  to in about 7 years decided to pay us a visit in light of the recent news. The next unexpected thing, as things whether good or bad like to come in threes, was that most of her family came to ours as well. A knock on the door means they're here but as I look outside the faces are foreign to me. Most of them don't look or sound like my memories. I was quite nervous to speak to them after all this time but I needn't have been. It was so lovely. There was laughter and love and despite the odd rocky moment it was nice to see them. It's funny how much can happen without you knowing about it and it's funny how you can lose contact with people who...