We've arrived. 23 hours on a plane, 3 hours in Singapore, 9 times zones crossed, several countries, a couple of seas and an ocean flown over. We're finally here.

Security, customs, arrivals and then I have my arms full of Penny. I love Penny hugs, makes me feel like I can steal some of her energy and creative vibe by just holding her. Damn, it's ( Read more... )

Last full day and night in Los Angeles, and we want to end on a high.

First stop. Bus stop! Seriously. Our last day in Los Angeles and we decided to take a bus ride out to Manhattan Beach, it was a blast. I've never been on public transport in Los Angeles before and it was just the coolest thing in the world sitting on the bench under a beautiful ( Read more... )

When we spoke of all the things we wanted to try and squeeze into our few days in Los Angeles a day in Santa Monica was top of the list. Santa Monica was the place I stayed the first time I came to California, for that reason alone it holds a special place in my memories. Last year I suggested the trip because I wanted to go, this year it was ( Read more... )

This year when I changed my pounds into dollars I made a bit of a mess. Whilst trying to get cash together from different bank accounts and cash machines and utilising chip and pin I somehow forgot to tell the cashier that I wanted travellers cheques and so ended up with a little over three thousand dollars in dead presidents (only ten of which ( Read more... )

Last year, on the Sunday night when the convention had finished, we had a party. So this year we thought we'd have another one. There was drinking and dancing and games and cake and a great way to say goodbye to some of those friends that we probably won't see for another year. By the time we were kicked out of the function room it was one in the ( Read more... )

We woke up ( Read more... )

I don't care whether you're 5 or 50, the night before you go on holiday is exciting. Katie, Debs, Danny and myself decided to kick start the vacation in style by staying at the Sheraton Skyline hotel just down the road from Heathrow Airport. (Okay for me it was more about getting an extra hour in bed than style, but the other thing sounded better ( Read more... )

So now that all the fancy perfume adverts and expensive chocolate adverts are finished with, it's time to turn towards adverts for furniture sales and winter holidays in the sun and, my personal favourite, partworks projects. Every new year we get bombarded by commercials for a weekly, fortnightly or monthly publication covering a vast array of ( Read more... )

Friday 2nd May 2008

To be honest I wasn't really looking forward tothis. It was kind of like because it was in England I was obligated to go; that because it was Xena it had become a habit that I hadn't broken; that I was using it more of a social networking thing. But to be really honest I had a bloody fantastic time.

I was tired by the time I got ( Read more... )

Saturday, 26th April 2008

It's that time of year again when we pack two cars with people, clothes and food and head off to the South Coast. A town called Swanage, on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset to be exact. We make this trip every year as a way to celebrate and remember my granparents who loved the area and to just be together as a family.

Just a ( Read more... )