Wednesday 24 August 2011

Give me a ticket for an aeroplane, ain't got time to take a fast train...

So I've been a bit...busy isn't the word, more occupied.
I've been working things out, going places, doing stuff.
And feeling like absolute naffness for a while too. I had an awful headcold last week and I'm just about over it. Yay!

Anyhoo, today my oldest friend and I went for a walk, and he told me he was off back to his medicine degree in Sheffield tonight (safe journey old man!). And...I kind of felt a bit sad afterwards. I've got my degree, I'm taking a year off study to decide the best course of action.
And I'm in Bangor, not doing much. And I want to be somewhere else right now...

So I went to the boat builder on the quay and got myself some awesome sounding work possibilities! And I'm also going to volunteer on the steam railway again. Hurrah!

Tomorrow night I'm off to Liverpool for a gig with my friend JD, to see the Spooky Men's Chorale. Check 'em out, they're somewhat awesome!

Oh, and I'm sure there was something el-Oh yeah, I'M GOING TO CANADA!! In...92 days, to go all across the whole country on trains, and stay there for I don't know how long, and it will be a magnificent adventure! : D

Not that I'm looking forward or anything...

Thursday 18 August 2011

WedThur

Well, I haven't done much of late. All I've been doing is sleeping, eating, writing emails to try and find volunteer or temp work in museums, and having little luck because there is NONE.

So it seems I'm going on holiday, as the UK (and particularly Wales) is sinking deeper into unemployment and joblessness, instead of improving. I figure the best idea is to get away for a while and see some of the world, after all, travel is good for the soul! So I'm actually starting to plan and organise my trip, and tentatively looking for some part-time work to raise funds.

Oh, and I got bored last night so I put a braid in my hair, it keeps it out of my face oddly well...

Sunday 14 August 2011

Sat'dy




I felt ill yesterday and I'm still a bit...blergh today, so no church, and maybe no badminton with chums :( Boo.

I made up for feeling like my head was being soaked in a vat of glue yesterday afternoon by dressing properly (which for me = waistcoat and hat) and going to get a Chinese takeaway in a fedora. Here's a photo to prove it! I do look a bit like a 1920s jazz saxophonist, but I like my new spats!

Anyhoo, I crocheted an acorn this morning, it went quite well but I think I need to work on looking at the next year now. I could travel, work, travel AND work, study some more or become an itinerant artist of some sort and be poor but inspired. Which one will I choose? Probably a combination, but the issues are manifold, hmmmmm!

Anyway, picture one is what I wore yesterday. Picture two is the acorn which now rests on the mantelpiece. His name is Keith.

Friday 12 August 2011

So this is Friday

I have had a mixed sort of couple of days. I've got a cold, which is par for the course really, but I've had to think so hard over the last week or three that I'm just tired out. I'm frazzled and my brain's telling me to take a nap and relax, while the world keeps telling me I need to get a job or go back to uni or both immediately.

But as Robyn said, fun sounds like fun, and I think I might just need soem after 15 odd years in full time education!

I think that I've cheered up by now mind, and I've crocheted a yellow jellyfish called Jerry, he's delightful! Then I've finished my spats, and I made a night cap too, with a pom-pom! My oldest friend and I wrote a story for a new comic today, but I'll have to brush up on my drawing skills to make a start on the characters. It looks like a great laugh, and he's a grand comedy writer, so here's hoping!

The first picture is my night cap, it's linen with a white woollen pom-pom, and the second picture is Jerry!

Wednesday 10 August 2011

Chasing trains and spat making



I've been making things this week, I made a canvas spat yesterday, just the one, and I bought a sewing machine today!
It looks good, and it fits well enough, but I need to trim it a bit and things. It's linen lined, with canvas outside, and some black shanked buttons on the lower part, the top ones are white (because i had six black buttons in the bag!) and they look...ok I think! Tonight I'll finish the second spat, and then i'll finally finally have spats that fit, my Victorian ones are too small. Boo!

My Dad and I went chasing trains on Sunday and yesterday, we went after two steam specials down the North Wales coast, and it was awesome! We haven't done anything like that for months and months and months, and it was grand! There was fish and chips, chasing steam engines, smoke, soot and noise and it was brilliant!

The first shot is my spat, the second is of a Stanier 8F we saw yesterday on our travels, it was loud and smoky and great! :-D

Saturday 6 August 2011

So anyway...

I did some more finger loop weaving, and attached them to my tunic. I went to a birthday party in Llanddona last night, and went to a driving range today. It was delightful! I got very slightly marginally better at hitting golf balls, hurrah!


Wednesday 3 August 2011

Mountaineering old school



Well, today my friend Ben came up to visit, and my oldest friend Rostam came over, and we went for a walk. A very long old walk up a mountain called Glyder Fawr in Snowdonia. In the first picture, we're going up, in the second, I'm stuck out of a rock formation in a 17th Century Montero mountain cap (!) and the last one is our descent down the scree to the valley floor..

It was lovely, but sooo tiring! I'm very out of shape, even though I managed to run most of the way down (and videod it on my phone) I was exhausted, and still am about 3 hours later!

Great fun, great friends and a great mountain view make for a pretty good day :-)