Colouring Competition

Well, @iamjamesward ran a competition on Twitter in which he asked people to colour in a square. I made this because I thought if I made any lines, I wouldn't really be doing 'colouring in' as such, I'd be drawing. So I filled the box with coloured dots. Although I did want the dots to form some kind of pattern, which I hope they have.

Edit: I ended up winning the competition because some of my friends with lots of followers RTd my 'vote for me!' request, so I got more votes than I think I otherwise would have. I think Hencehemmo was the real winner. I'm too embarrassed to send James my address and accept the prize. But I'm quite pleased with my square, all the same. Thank you to everyone who voted for it.

Marmite Bites

I tried out this recipe for Marmite bites. No photos of them (snaffled up too quickly) but here's the picture of the recipe page which @violetcreme sent me.

The Perfect Lunch

The perfect lunch for a summer afternoon (sausages with bubble and squeak at the S&M Cafe) and a new purse from a shop in Spitalfields.

Fiona and Macaroons

Birthday drinks for Fiona, with my mate Chris. We gave her macaroons from Yauatcha.

Robust Sennheiser Engineering

It's not like I'm particularly careless or rough with my earphones, but I seem to get through a set every three months. The wiring frays and the sound only comes out of one ear, or the jack wrenches out like this... They're about £80 each! I'm fed up with expensive earphones -- only cheap ones for me from now on. I'm willing to sacrifice the sound quality until Sennheiser can invent some earphones that don't crumble to dust as soon as you press 'play' on your mp3 player.

Bristol - Part 2

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Graffiti artist Banksy took over the Bristol Museum in a surprise event. The public were allowed/encouraged to take photos -- the whole exhibition plays with traditional museum expectations and behaviour, so I suppose that's all part of that. These are photos of my favourite objects.

Bristol - Part 1

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My brother was interested in seeing the Banksy exhibition at Bristol Museum, so I offered to go with him and we made a weekend of it. We travelled down on the Saturday and spent a day exploring the town, and on the Sunday we saw the exhibition and travelled back. I'd never been to Bristol before, I liked it a lot. The atmosphere of Cambridge, the hills of Edinburgh and the architecture of Bath.

Midsummer Night's Clouds

I went to see a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream in the park, under a sky full of ominous, rain-threatening clouds. But it stayed fairly dry throughout, and the play was energetic and silly and fun.