gypods: April 2006

busy busy busy

...not doing wedding stuff. :-0

so I've been busy over the past few weeks (eventually) getting round to doing me garden. I quite liked Robo's photees so I thought I'd do show you some of my own.
It used to look like this
old 1
old 2
and thats how its been slowly degrading over the past 2 years.

and so I hired a skip and got rid of my bonfire pit / rubble collection.
phase 1
phase2
phase 3

Its now got plants in and stuff and now we need a new fence. The grass is still a mess. :)

I've also been busy playing with me cards as well, which is what takes my time rather than writing e-mails or tidying up. :)
From humble backpalm production comes the latest thing I've been playing with over the past few weeks. I don't normally do cards but I quite like this particular manipulation.
no camera tricks
1.4 meg. Apols for the dodgy side to back palm, but it was about the fifth take. :)

Geek out

Been working away on some big projects lately, hard work, but took a break last week to pop up to Atlanta to goto a Fan Faire for Everquest. I had an absolute blast I have to admit. Yes, place was full of geeks, but not too many nerds if you know what I mean. Scary the stuff that went on, basically a bank holiday weekends worth of booze non-stop. Got taken off-site by some guildees/friends of guildees (that's wierd in of itself that people you've chatted to for ages, on first meeting without knowing what they looked like, you carry on topics being discussed online earlier) to an 80's club that was like Gullivers but bigger (well, it IS America I guess). 2 chicks next to me at the bar saying 'I love the whole English music scene, anything out of England is cool' 'well hallo darlin', I'm not from round here, got any English in you?' (yeah, I know, the punchline was obvious). 'well, you'd have a chance if your accent wasn't so obviously fake' '....' blast. Maybe I need to pop home soon and recharge the accent.
Ended up the next night at a live rock act Kareoke that was GREAT! Signed up early, got called up first, belted my heart out to Head Like A Hole and got the whole club rocking. Shame it's all over, looking forward to next year at Vegas.