Well, the surprise that my friend planned to take me to was the most extraordinary piece of total theatre I have ever experienced. It actually took me a while to figure out what was going on. We arrived at Battersea Arts Centre, and went in by the side entrance, and there were no posters or any indication to what was happening inside. Once there, ( Read more... )

Greetings friends! It's been a long and wonderful journey. I actually got back last night, but I've been all over the place with jet-lag. It's all fine now, and I bring you...

This is looking over the hotel balcony in Ica, which was surrounded by the desert and sand dunes.


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Arrrgh! Sorry, I´ve had no time to reply to comments or read my flist or anything! I´ve got about ten minutes before I need to go to dinner, then it´s straight to bed, because tomorrow I´m getting up at 4.30am to catch the train to Machu Picchu! Eeeeee! The highlight of the holiday is imminent ( Read more... )

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First, I did the meme of the moment. The results were... interesting:

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Cartoonist / Comic Illustrator

2.

Animator

3.

Illustrator

4.

Artist

5.

Advertising Copywriter

6.

Costume Designer

7.

Director of Photography

8.

Art Director

9.

Writer

10.

Critic

I have actually considered a lot of these careers quite seriously in the past, particularly the artistic ones ( Read more... )

Mwahahahaaaa! Look what I found!


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My best friend got us tickets to see the League of Gentlemen giving a presentation on one of their favourite horror films (Theatre of Blood) in our local indie cinema!!! It's even better that it's a fundraiser to help keep the dear old 1920s art deco cineplex alive. Oh, the joy!


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I am in fact a bit of a geek (couldn't you all guess), so I got really excited when I found out about the new thing Google Earth is doing. You can now explore the sky, and zoom all around the galaxies and constellations! http://earth.google.com/sky/skyedu.html 
It takes me back to when I was about 6/7 and desperately wanted to be an astronomer. ( Read more... )

The first thing I did? What do you expect - I made my Jack and Will sim family XD, and I moved them into a new home.

I then spent about half an hour with my mouth hanging open stupidly and my eyes like saucers as they made out rather enthusiatically, along with all the odd simlish sound effects. After I'd shaken myself out of the initial glee, and ( Read more... )

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