#prossecco

Cork’s a weird substance right? Woody...ish? Great for bottle stoppers and pin boards, but we produce wine and champagne on an industrial scale so we must farm the cork...trees?? Right? What’s that look like?

“An incredibly versatile natural material, cork is harvested from living cork oak trees somewhat like wool is gathered from sheep. The trees are unharmed by the process, and they continue producing cork for an average of 150 years.”  

A harvested cork oak forest. 

Harvested cork

New job. No idea what i’m doing. Hoping the people i’m in charge of don’t notice! haha

One thing I am good at is worrying about things that don’t need to be worried about. Like new job worries, if i’m earning enough money to eventually move out. (I’m not planning on this for another 2 years at least!). What people in the village I live in think of me. (Again, I doubt they even think about me). 

There is two voices in my head, the one that tells me to worry and the other that says ‘fuck it, just do it’. I like to think I listen to the fuck it person and then once I do it, the other one kicks into overdrive. Think I need to try and find a balance! 

Anyway, this is a blabbing diary entry this week! I’ve been to see lots of friends, had evenings in the sun drinking prossecco. Been to a gig in London with my old school mates. I had a really social couple of weeks actually. And I don’t even think about driving now I get in my car so I think I've gone pretty far in the 5 months I brought my first car! Although yesterday was the first time I put my own petrol in my car! Not my fault though! My dad uses it too and he loves a trip to the petrol station, he’s a strange man!

One thing that’s in the back of my brain though and one that I keep ignoring until I sort out the rest of my life. I’m getting pretty lonely. All my friends are settling down. the amount of newborn babies I get to cuddle these days is ridiculous! Not that i’m not ready to settle down yet, the idea of being responsible for a child is just unthinkable but a relationship, someone to cuddle at night. Wouldn’t mind that I suppose.