Redoing☆Childhood

On Sunday, I wanted to get in some more practice on my skates so James and I went to the park. Not a huge amount of improvement since last time but I'm getting there. Watch the video until the end for the big finish!   James had a discount code for Matrix Virtual Reality, a VR arcade in Digbeth so we decided to book a session there after we'd gone back home to eat and drop off my skating stuff.  James had a lot of experience with VR and when we got there, he began chatting with the guy working there about all sorts of things I didn't understand (turns out the guy was a massive weeb as well and we got his Instagram lol). I didn't have much experience with VR aside from a couple of times that James had let me use his headset to play Beat Saber so it was all mostly a new experience for me. The first thing we played was a paint-balling game that James and I played against each other. There were random balls and other special objects around the area and you had to pick them ...

Yesterday my parents and I had to run a few errands in City Centre but since we hadn't had a proper day in town for over a year now due to lockdown and everything, we decided to make a whole day of it and looked around a few of the shops while we were there. I thought it would be a good opportunity for me to get some new skates as well, since the secondhand ones I had broke so after we'd done most of the things we needed to do, we headed for Sports Direct in the Bullring Shopping Centre. As we approached the entrance to the shopping centre, I noticed a shop just outside that I hadn't seen before. I don't know how new it was but it definitely hadn't been there the last time I'd been around that area and I thought it looked interesting so I decided to check it out. It was called Myga and actually consisted of two shops right next to each other; one that sold crystals, oracle cards, and other little New Age bits and pieces, and the main store that sold all sorts of...

I had a pair of rollerblades when I was a kid that were given to me by a family friend. From time to time I'd mess around on them, riding up and down the hallway in my house but I never really had the confidence or dedication to practice with them enough to actually get halfway decent. Over the last few years though, I've been seeing lots of cute videos on social media and the occasional skaters out in public so my interest in skating grew and I developed the desire to take up the activity again as an adult. I wanted to get rollerblades (inline skates) rather than quads as these were the types of skates I'd had as a child, plus I'd also wanted to take up ice-skating which is fundamentally the same procress as rollerblading. I did go ice-skating a couple of years back and really enjoyed it. Things did get busy however, and I haven't been since but I do definitely want to try going again.   A couple of weeks ago I bought a pair of rollersblades and a set of pads (knee...

In September of last year I moved to London for university. Cycling seems so much more common in London than my hometown of Birmingham and I often noticed the bikes that were around and available for the public to use. Admittedly I'd gotten pretty out of shape over the extra long, lockdown-lengthened holidays we'd been having (not that I was ever partically in shape in the first place) and was looking for more fun ways of excerising.  There's a saying that goes, "It's just like riding a bike!" which basically means that even if you don't perform a particular action for a while you'll be able to get back into it easily. Despite the saying, in the past that hadn't been the case for me with cycling; I had to relearn the skill about 3 times when I was kid. I would learn while I was away at a summer camp or something then I'd go home and not really have the opportunity to do it again for the rest of the year. Then, when I went back to camp again the...