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gnommi ([personal profile] gnommi) wrote2010-08-30 06:42 pm
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War and Piece(s)

This week's continued to be mental, work-wise. It kinda went flu-flu+funeral-work 9 days in a row-collapse-go to London-collapse. Of course tomorrow is back to the grindstone, this time for an 11 day week. Can't wait to escape to Canada!

Did manage another batch of lino cutting, this time re-working an old block for two-colour
printing. Much more successful I think, though still on the uphill slope of the learning curve!

Variations on a theme of weevil

London was bittersweet: we went to War In The Park, for which we have [livejournal.com profile] afm13 to thank, in the main. War... was terrific fun, except that it also heralded probably the last time we'll see our bosom buddies Timbo Stuntbowie and [livejournal.com profile] maracacha in a right long time, as they're moving to Berlin next week. Parting is such sweet sorrow, etc. I'm still in denial. Anton liberally doused the place in Grade A Siberian testosterone, Bleak tore a giggly, gaping hole in the space-time continuum, i Am immune *literally* took it to the bridge (and almost fell off), poetry was perpetrated and peaches and cyder* were consumed. Full pictorial record here.

Joe Law singsBleak as your soul, mateCountry Al has a fan

London also meant clearing out my desk at CRUK for the last time, attempting (sadly unsuccessfully) to print the final copies of my thesis that I owe the university in order to actually graduate, and some flat out awesome sushi at Sushi Hiroba. Soft shell crab hand roll was droolworthy; I never understood the appeal of roe before, but whatever the little black salty popping orbs of joy that encrusted this with were, I salute the fish that spawned them, OMG.

Today, we're trying to learn Morgan Rattler (a traditional English 48-bar jig) on my shiny new recorder and his lovely parlour guitar. Ugh so many quavers... and poor poor neighbours.


*because as any fule kno, a surfeit of peaches and no cyder was enough to do away with at least one Bad King.**

**Muahaha! I abuse both Sellar & Yeatman and Willans & Searle in one fell swoop!

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