The grand return!

Hello, my poor poor readers...all one and a half of you.
I'm revamping I think. I mean my actual blog is blocked at my school but I have the ability to view my posts as long as I don't care what they actually look like!

I am reading at the moment. A lot. A lot a lot.
My goal is to read 200 books this year, although more would be nice I have to be reasonable and not stress myself out. So far I'm on my 35th book which is Heir of Fire by Sarah J Maas which I LOVE! I wasn't so keen on Throne of Glass itself but the second book (Crown of Midnight) was awesome and this book is somewhere between the two on the awesome scale. My best friend and roommate has lent it to me as well as the prequels which I am ver excited to read. So far I have found the books pretty predictable but WHO KNOWS maybe I'm psychic *crosses fingers* (I wanna be psychic) (actually no. Nononononono).
I digress. Throne of Glass series is good. Read it, I am.

I have started a bullet journal too, I say bullet journal I mean a moleskine of lists and bits and bobs and the start of a revision timetable DARN YOU GCSES. I'm really enjoying the process and I have to recommend it to anyone who is a little disorganised, not really really disorganised you'd probably lose it. I use a system similar to bohoberry on YouTube but way less pretty. Way way less.

I hope you enjoyed my brief reappearance. IM SORRY. I make no promises that I will return but we can all dream that I get a grip.

Review: Octopus Ukulele

Yesterday I was helping my friend find a ukulele as she would like to learn and stumbled upon the octopus. I have a makala dolphin which I thought was the best cheep ukulele but soon discovered the octopus' nickname, the dolphin killer. And so was intrigued.

Strolling through Bognor with my grand parents I discovered a small music shop with a ukulele section and as a person with a nasty case of UAS (Ukulele Acquisition Syndrome) wandered in. I asked the assistant if they had the octopus, they did. After trying out their black sparkly one I bought a green sparkly one and was amazed by the quality of the build.

The body is made of a thick plywood, something you would expect for the price. The neck and fret board are perfectly matched with the sides of the rosewood fret board having been rolled, something you only see on high end ukuleles, and an immaculate paint job. The action is already very low for a low end ukulele and there is plenty of scope for lowering it further.

The strings are octopus' own "white synthetic gut strings" which are very stretchy but seem to settle quickly. The tuners are geared and are a little grindy but overall are very good and hold extremely well, the tuner buttons are rubberised which is a nice but un necessary touch.

Overall I think this is a very good quality ukulele for the price and has been well thought out. It sounds like a plywood ukulele and the sound is not particularly exciting or dramatic but that is what you pay for . I like the double logo, one saying octopus between the four tuning pins in the centre of the head and one with a picture of an octopus on the top of the head. I also like the gig bag which comes with it, it is more sturdy than the mahalo or makala cases and has the octopus logo across the bottom in a classy way not in a terrible advertisementy way.

Love 

Eloise

Welcome!

Heya!

I'm Eloise, I'm 14 and this is my blog. I'm going to (try) to document my life here but I am really unorganised and I always fail to update such things.
So what the hell is this blog I hear you say? I don't know. I really don't. This is probably like a diary with reviews and what not. I have got some stuffs that I want to review so heads up for that! I might do that today(the same day as this post).
Coming up soon in my life: Hollesley ukulele jamboree, this is so much fun and I look forwards to it every year, we camp, play ukuleles and have loads of fun; I go to my grand parents in Chichester for about a week and I might be catching up with some friends from my primary school with will be lovely!
In the last weekish: on Thursday I had my ears pierced at Purple shop in Ipswich, I had my firsts done and everyone there was lovely, they hurt (as in my ears) allot though; I am on my summer holidays before everyone else, boarding school has it's perks and I checked my bees today, they are doing great, they have only been in their current hive a week so far though!

Bye x