Florrie Elizabeth.

As always, I am unbelievably excited for Britain's biggest music awards- the BRITs. Every year, I wait in anticipation to find out which artists have been nominated for an award and who is performing on the stage. Something that makes this year even more exciting (for me, anyway) is the fact that I am GOING to the BRIT Awards! No, no, I wasn't invited (though I will forever hope to be), but I received a pair of tickets to the awards for Christmas- eeek! So, this Wednesday, I am heading to The O2, London to watch performances from the likes of Justin Bieber, Adele and, my utmost favourites, Coldplay. Over the years, the BRITs have played host to many wonderfully wacky performances from a variety of artists. These are my particular highlights from the past ten years... Er, okay, so I may be slightly biased as a lifelong "Alouder" but Girls Aloud were the centre of the glitz and glamour of the awards show back in 2009, when they performed "The Promise" with ...

The past few months have been some of the busiest of my life so far. In the last six months alone, I've applied to university, revised, had interviews at universities, revised, got offers from universities, turned eighteen, done a bit more revision and, of course, visited the Harry Potter Studios. It's all been  a bit manic and now is no different. With mock exams just one week away and the actual exams looming, life currently seems like just one blur of work. True, that is what I had expected when I enrolled for A-Levels eighteen months ago. However, did I expect to get to the stage when social activities seem a hindrance, this early in the school year? No. It's only February; my first exam is over three months away and I'm already at the stage when doing something as minor as watching TV is affected by the constant feeling of guilt that I'm not working out the coefficient of friction or re-reading 'Frankenstein' for the umpteenth time. I don't mind s...