I found these child-eye views of the Burmese tragedy very moving. Workers for Foundation for the People of Burma saw that the children were 'listless and in need of playful outlets.'

So they gave them crayons. And let them draw.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/08/asia_pac_sketching_burma0s_cyclone/html/1.stm

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Well after punting to Islip, I've been dwelling on the next obvious step... the 260 miles to Cambridge. Its apparently been done only 2 or 3 times before. I've reccied the route, apparently its straight up the Oxford canal and then over.

http://www.jim-shead.com/waterways/Inland-Waterways-of-England.html

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I was going to leave this for a while until I had a few more entries, but alas I'm too impatient.

I've made a new journal for my Tolkien and artistic musings. Here I hope to put up pictures of my own work, other Tolkien artists I find, musings on Tolkien and art, art in general and any inspiration I can think of.

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It was Miss Shore's birthday on Sunday and to celebrate the fact that it'll be another 5 months until I'm *that* old (as old as I thought she was the first time I met her 5 years ago!), and the fact that her parents were visiting from America I made a cake to celebrate...


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(Can you tell I've been downloading all the photos off my camera?)


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My 13 year old sister had a new camera for Christmas and has been enthusiastically playing with it. In order to liven up our traditional Good Friday walk we decided to have a photo competition with the theme of 'The Spirit of Easter'.

She did pretty darn well and even got the winning picture? Which do you think is the winner - and is there any ( Read more... )

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Since I have far too many hours in credit, I thought I would dedicate an extra hour of my lunch to writing up my trip to see the Lord of the Rings production at the Drury Lane Theatre.

Visually this production was amazing. And I don't mean just pretty good, I mean awesome. There were stunts that had your mouth dropping, and more pretty than I ( Read more... )