hi everyone. how are you all doing? not much to report really apart from the VERY EXCITING NEWS that VIV THE AMAZING was featured on newsnight last night. there was a beautiful shot of her doing some filing in the office. she really is famous now and the best part is that she lives with us!! woo hoo for viv-the-amazing!!

andy and i also discovered the blake pub last night. briefly featured in the full monty, it wasn't a pub either of us had been to but it was really good and so cool to hang out with friends.

and i just want everyone to know that i love my husband.

ah yes. lots of photos to look at now:

my birthday (a little late on that one)

wabisabi

greenbelt

just got back from greenbelt - had a really good time but not at all the way i thought. more later, incl. lots of photos....

round at ants finishing off our cd - very exciting - got about 20 more to print the labels on to, then just put the inlays into the boxes and they're done. so it'll be on sale from now on really - the initial 50 are there primarily to make enough money to do a bigger run, seeing as none of us have any money at the mo. email me if you want a copy - they'll be on sale for £10 and there are currently only 50 so hurry hurry hurry...!

had a bit of an odd day today.

well, more the afternoon... having met bea and cathers for lunch, i went off wondering in town. felt kinda detatched from the world, stuck in this strange limbo - bit like a ghost. i found myself gliding around town, around people, around spiral staircases, being really silent with this glazed look in my eyes and a faint smile. not tiptoeing but just being soft footed. a vague feeling of sadness and resignation to nothing in particular, a view of the world i dont normally see. walking on automatic... a melancholy happiness, a contented sadness.

underneath the stars i'll meet you,

underneath the stars i'll greet you,

and there beneath the stars i'll leave you,

before you go of your own free will.

go gently.

here beneath the stars i'm mending,

i'm here beneath the stars not ending,

why on earth am i pretending,

i'm here again, the stars befriending,

they come and go of their own free will.

go gently.

- underneath the stars

Today at work is going quite slowly. Neither of us has many emails coming in and I'm trying to get the big timetable grid up on the white board. Not helped by the fact that the markers are running out!

all the americans apart from stacy have deserted us. this came as a bit of a shock to me as i thought they were going to be around for at least another few days. Greenbelt has gone from being a weekend event to week long void in the summer of 2003!

at least it gives me space for rest which i really need. anita bought me a bath bomb from LUSH which has glitter in it and i'm going to enjoy that later on today!

still burnt out and struggling but God is good and i like my new job even though it's a little slow at the moment!

where did i leave my digi camera......?...

ah yes

found it.

joel.

the girls are whispering downstairs...shhhhh...

now upstairs.

well i guess tonight is a night of fotos....

as stacy gets packed upstairs, lamenting the leaving of her very well-to-do, civilised english manner:


we are then welcoming back, moments later, cathers back to native england. fitting perfectly into the english country garden as pictured:

she discusses the relative differences between schneider aventinus and erdinger weisbier with bea. as it was, i went predoninantly for the aventinus, as usual, according to the wise hodgson's recommendation (although i did try again, the chimay red, pleasantly surprised by it's taste/ hoppiness)... a photo to follow...

well greg did follow, we got to the devonshire cat, the finest purveyors of fine beers in fine sheffield, greg is moving to sheffield to do TT:



but meanwhile rachel (sprorting her new haircut, thank you to erika) arrives a little late to sample something or other and say goodbye to stacey, little knowing that stacey, whilst staying in sheffield a few days more will also make it to reenbelt in the same car on thursday.....

the following day i:

oh no one takes fotos of me. the man behind the camara, never in front, i will (most likely be travellinf to greenblelt with simon ennis (the menace) on the friday to join with other for who knows what aside from seeing kate rusby play live on the friday eve. am currently listening to her new album, out today (yesterday?...) the most consistantly listened to artist in (my) history (listening to her on average probably once per day since 31st dec, '02), the coming of her new album has been possibly the most eagerly waited of releases in the past year or two.



i mean, even when the scanner and msn messenger started up, the noise windows XP makes, even that's in tune with her music! of course, someone such as nathan might take that as a slur against her musical character - if that were the case (and i must say i have reason this week to dispute his case for mac's!!), please over look it - whilst her new album is not as obvious as ten (which was a retrospective of ten years music) her new album of new stuff may seem to be more a pleasantly slow burner, and still making kate rusby's "ten" possibly the most compelling album i've heard in the last 4 years. in fact, not since an early 90's pearl jam or smashing pumpkins album have i been so consistantly into a cd than this year. and so maybe that brings me to the end of today comic strip of not so comic events. have found out this evening that i may well be an INFP (meyers briggs) and confirmed my position as an observer in the noneagrames (or whatever they're called) and said a tentative goodbye to the texans that have made mine and bea's life so interesting, colourfull and fun over the past few weeks. already missing them and plotting their return for when the coffee shop opens sometime this year/ in the new year.

the end.

goodbye to viv from joel -the greenbelt/ jones troupe are leaving tomorrow and will meet up with the rest of us at greenbelt next weekend...
fotos to phollow... (that was something more for brad to stay enteratined 'til the fotos phollow up...)

the first night

last night seemed to go really well - gathering at the devonshire cat. there were three pitchers which the manager provided for us to be able to try different types of beer. i don't know what they were but i drank a glass of each!

there are definite gaps where key people are missing - ted and brad in particular come to mind. WE LOVE YOU AND MISS YOU!

i enjoyed getting to know sarah and bruce stuart - incredible shyness had come over me the night before so i hadn't talked to them at all. oops. it's amazing how this wabiSABI community works - it also ties in with a girl called maria, who's come from denmark, turning up. she studies anthropology and thought she'd be loking mainly at st tom's and what it looks like as a church and has now been opened up to the crazy world of international communities, blogging and wabiSABI. God help her!!

the sun is still shining - my garden really needs a water. i'm about to have a shower and then head off to pick up 25 sausage sandwhiches and 25 bacon sandwiches for our brunch.

current timetable for wabiSABI can be found here, or go to the wabisabi blog for more stuff...

and some photos are now up from last night of the evenings proceedings. several people have commented (complained?) that there aren't any up yet...

i had a good day

it's my birthday today.... i'm 26

and dan austin made me a little embroidered thingy to mark the occasion:

started work today and it's going fine - i feel like a very important person - i even had to go to a meeting this afternoon!!!

well it seems we have nearer 30 pints of lemon cider on the go. and another good night at the fat cat. pretty hot out side but better than inside in the evenings!.

and HAPPY BIRTHDAY to jen a!!

i have also created 20 pints of porter, and am hopefully making another 20 pints of lemon cider today - if i can juggle enough of the equipment around, we'll be knee deep in alcohol a month from now.

my husband has created the most fabul;oius menu ever for moogaloo's coffee shop. he is a genius and the Lord has provided some awesome task orientated people to come in and help us get out business plan together.

we love brad and also we love making us crazy coffees - if you are inspired to create the let us know of your caffeine masterpieces!

here's another 1000 words... it was so good to be at the party - not really been to such a full one in quite a while (not counting the ones at our own house) - caught up with lots of people, meet a few new ones, and have some more unusual yet tasty beers. was a shame to see miriam go, but a good evening all the same - hopefully the pic kinda sums up the evening (lots more here) - didnt leave, myself, till about 1.30... and then bumped into rich and mike on the way home, which was kinda strange too.

and today is andrew "crazy man" hodgson's birthday so he's coming round for bea's famous chicken and peaches and a few more interestingly odd beers... yummy yummy yummy...

they say a picture paints a thousand words... it seems i've been writing whole essays on this blog this past week or so... with yet more to come.

anyway, here's a photo from yesterdays wedding... more photos here ...

even more photos - the spice girls if they were made in the 70's....?....

this is viv-the-amazing who is living with us and who we love very very much.

and the photos of last night are up.

and yep - the below photo has been swapped already.

ok - this is why i love our digital camare so much - sure we dont get the nice clean crisp photos, nor do we get the sharp photos we used to get on our point-and-click, but ones like this? i would have no idea how to get any other way... i thought this was appropraite to put up tonight having just had our "s" party (turn your head 90' on its side to see the "s" (completely by chance i should add...) - there'll be more photos tomorrow (and there are some good ones to come!), but enjoy this one while you can...

i got a new piercing today - it was an adventure of two parts:

i) as a covenant between me and God that I am beautiful no matter how i feel.
ii)as a celebration of my new job as disability support workewr (DSW) coordinator.

thank you and goodnight.