Welcome to my blog

To be perfectly honest, I have no clue what I'm doing. I'm not technologically gifted, I've never made a blog before in my life and I'm more than slightly worried that I won't have anything remotely interesting to share. But nevertheless, I am here. 

 Probably the biggest reason I wanted to make this blog is to get back into writing. I've always enjoyed telling stories (although they were usually fictional ones, given that they are more interesting) and that was one of my biggest resolutions for 2019. 

 On top of this, I've got a lot of cool things coming up this year - one of which being moving to Spain later on for my year abroad, so I wanted to record those memories in some form and I'm much too cringey for a YouTube channel. 

 Not really sure I can give a sure answer on what you can expect from this blog, but I know I'm definitely interested in giving a record of stuff I'm getting up to and advice on different life topics (possibly a bit hypocritical given that I'm a mess 90% of the time, BUT being a mess has taught me a lot). 

 I hope you enjoy reading my blog (even if it's just you, mum) and that I can finally work out how to format this damn thing.

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