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Happy Valentines Day for yesterday!

My Valentines has been a bit of a tradition in the blog years, literally changing the name to Michael Day It was a bit of a joke years ago, and it’s kind of stuck. The day and night is filled with food and drink, music and film, which was Valentines Day, on Valentines Day…

Something which I got a few years ago were the Sea Salt caramel Charbonnel et Walker truffles…WOW! They are so good, nothing like anything else. I used to get a couple of boxes of the other ones, but when I discovered these, It’s been a tradition to get them every year. £5 for 3, and I only buy 1 box a year.

I also have a ridiculously large box of Lindt Lindor chocolate truffles…These have got to be my second favourite’s behind the other truffles. They’re so nice! And then what do you have to wash all this down? Bottega Gold of course!

For the meal I decided to have spaghetti bolognese with some red wine. I’ve had so many different meals over the years on Michael Day, from a full on turkey dinner to crazy gyros, and my spaghetti bolognese so many times.

I sometimes call this “Fat Week“, because it’s close to one of my other favourite days of the year…Pancake day. But that is really late this year, around 3 weeks away, in March.

I am far too healthy for my own good these days…When I was eating some of this I had to stop, I couldn’t take all the sugar! 😀 If you said to be when I was a little kid that one day you’ll stop eating chocolate not because you’re full but because you can’t take the sugar, I would have never believed you.

I hope you had a good one, and if it’s a day of the year you hate today must be your favourite, because it’s the longest time until it comes around again next year!

p.s. I still have 80% of the Lindt truffles left, I have no idea how long it will take me to eat those, I’d share them if I could 😉

I was having a browse around for a film to watch, and came across this film called Midnight Sun which I had never heard of before. I’ve been into coming of age/teen films lately, last week I watched Paper Towns, so I thought I would give this one a watch and see what it was all about.

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The Grand Tour, or should we call it Amazon’s Hit Car Show (or Amazon Shit Car Show) is back for season 3, and it already caused a hilarious stir on the Twitter with it’s catchy hashtag, #Amazonshitcarshow. Of course it’s 2019, a time where ironic sarcastic humour is lost on most people on the Internet, many of which didn’t get the joke at all.

The first of 13 shows aired yesterday, 18th January 2019, and I watched it last night, and it was great! More of the same good old stuff from Clarkson, Hammond and May, with the same show doing the same things which we all love.

The first episode centred around Detroit and the car scene of which it was once the king of when it earned the name motor city, but in recent years has been in decline, filing for bankruptcy one it’s lowest points, with a lot of citizens moving away.

The boys were driving American muscle cars, with Hammond driving a Dodge Challenger Demon, May driving a Hennessey Exorcist and Clarkson driving a Ford Mustang. Clarkson and May have a city street drag race which Hammond has to watch as he can’t drag race on the streets at the request of Dodge. May wins almost all the drag races. They then go to a Theatre to do a noise test of their cars, with May wining again.

May and Hammond finally have a drag race on a airfield strip, where Hammond changes parts of his car to get it drag race ready, and beats May. There’s also a review of a super car, with the McLaren Senna being put through it’s paces by Clarkson at Thruxton.

As already mentioned the first show was great, and I am looking forward to next week’s show already.

My film night is back, and I decided to finally watch Paper Towns. I got this ages ago on blu ray, but since we had Christmas and there were a few things on TV I wanted to watch, I decided to finally sit down and give this a watch. Paper Towns is a coming of age film which stars Cara Delevingne and Nat Wolff, and since I love coming of age films, I was looking forward to watching this.

It is about a shy guy called Quentin “Q” (Nat Wolff) who lives across the street from Margo (Cara Delevingne) who he is friends with from childhood and who he really likes. They discover a dead body, and Margo discovers the man killed himself after his divorce. The film then goes through to the teenage years, at the final year of high school, where Margo and Q have drifted apart since then.

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I’ve got the first of the items I’ve bought over Christmas, and they’re my jeans which are by Kenzo. I love denim, and usually buy at least one pair, although this year I’ve gone for a few, this being the first to arrive from my online shopping.

When it comes to denim, my go to brand is usually Nudie Jeans, and I’ve also got a good pair of Levi’s in recent times too. Over the years, I’ve bought a lot of designer brand denim, from Acne Studios to Balenciaga, Dolce and Gabbana and Dior to name a few, but recently stopped going for the designer brands over the proper denim brands.

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Wearing my light blue ripped Cheap Monday jeans in the Summer a while ago

2018 is now over, and it looks like it was the last year for Cheap Monday, the Swedish fashion brand who’ve been making cool and affordable jeans for just shy of 10 years. It is a sad story, since I have always liked Cheap Monday, featured lots of their clothing on the blog, and have been buying some things since around 2011.

But the fashion industry has seen challenging times, especially when there’s a large growing number of fast-fashion shops and in particular websites which are selling super-cheap clothing, it’s hard for high street brands to compete.

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Happy New Years Eve!

I hope you had a good Christmas, I can’t believe that it’s New Year’s Eve and it will be 2019 tomorrow. I got plenty of grooming products for Christmas as well as some other things, some of them new, and some my favourites.

Here’s what I got.

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Hey guys!

I hope you are well, are you prepared for Christmas? We’ve reached the last weekend before Christmas, I can’t believe how fast this year has gone. It seems like just yesterday it was the Summer, I was in Rome, and then of course it was the World Cup, and that unbelievably hot summer we had in England.

There’s only a few days left until Christmas, and not long for the end of the year either. I think I have everything sorted, presents wrapped, and everything seems to be done for the big day ready for when the big man comes down the chimney 😉

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