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Now Playing: fiona bevan - us and the darkness
Topic: life
Though I've been posting bits and pieces here and there, it seems like ages since I have updated properly.
Things have been generally pretty good with me of late. Work is work, that's probably the dullest part of my life of late.
Apart from that, as posted previously, I've been wandering around the UK and Europe since I arrived in London just over 7 months ago now. Specifically Eastbourne, Arbroath and surrounds, Brighton, Paris, and visiting new haunts and re-visiting old haunts. This coming weekend, over the Summer Bank Holiday break, I will be heading up to Edinburgh to visit some friends and possibly sneak in some festival treats.
This last is thanks to a recent visitor from Australia,
Sarah Jansen, who kindly donated her return ticket to Edinburgh to me :o)
Speaking of which, she and I and another Sarah also enjoyed some fantastic live music recently:
Fiona Bevan,
Mika Doo,
Cara Sebastian,
Vashti and Joseph Stokes at
Zigfrid von Underbelly in Hoxton Square.
I'm hoping to catch up with more live music over the coming months, including another dose of
Sarah Nixey and a long overdue catch-up with
CW Stoneking.
Recently I also managed to make time and get up the cajones to finally visit
Pimps and Pinups to get my locks cut, which I'd been meaning to do since late last year (I'd done a small trim in October or so, but wanted it mid-length for Arbroath, so hadn't gone the whole hack I'd intended).
We have a new housemate moving in any day, and unfortunately "lost" our lovely Angeline & James recently, though they're only about 10 minutes away.
As you may be able to tell from the above photograph, I'm greatly diminished these days. I'm down to about 4-5kg from my goal weight, which is awesome. I'd like to say it just fell off, but it has involved a lot of dedication to the free gym at my work and trying to eat at least moderately better (though I've managed it without cutting out alcohol completely, which is reassuring).
Creatively there have been some nice bits of news recently:
Four of my images were included in the re-launch issue of
twohundredby200 magazine for
iPad and
MagCloud.
'Creeper' was included in issue #112 of
Shots Magazine The latest installment of
i see a pattern forming is now online.
And I have still been participating in
The Divine Diptych Project, for which there will be a new round of images hitting the site from early September.
Thankfully, although the recent rioting in London was somewhat nearby, especially on the first night, it had little impact on me. Sad to see the damage done to a city I am falling further in love with each day though.