Monday, January 29, 2007
Sunday, January 28, 2007
MIKA - we love you!
You surely can't have escaped noticing that a hot new talent tops our British charts. Yes, the afore described MIKA is the latest entertainment sensation to Grace (Kelly?) our ears - an boy, what a pleasure it is too. Check out his number one hit!
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Brushing with nature...
A third-year print-making student has created an odd installation in our sculpture court as part of a college exhibition. A live hamster powers a wheel which in turn powers a cam which causes the front leg of a stuffed hamster (raised on its back legs) to wave up and down. Very odd,... and slightly distressing. Not least for the live hamster, having to animate his dead cousin.
This was my first brush with nature today, and it wasn't going to end there. Only about 30 seconds later, while walking out of college down to Lady Lawson Street, I was confronted by the unusual sight of a fox trotting towards me on the other side of the driveway. "How odd", I thought. But quite pleasing. Certainly the closest I've ever experienced these beautiful and timid creatures. Well, maybe not so timid. It carried on past me, quite unperturbed by my presence.
Then,... later still,... on arrival at my flat, I encounter yet more livestock! This time in the form of a mouse,... scurrying first across the kitchen floor, then, horror of horrors, into my room,... then back into the hallway and into the utility room, where I promptly locked in, hoping that the snug fit between carpet and door would keep it quarantined until a trap can be procured! The hamster and fox I can cope with,... but the mouse is doing my head in! It is probably gorging itself on my washing powder as I write, before nesting in the box to have a litter of 16 micelets. I will never be able to wash laundry again. Save me from a clean clothes catastrophe!
This was my first brush with nature today, and it wasn't going to end there. Only about 30 seconds later, while walking out of college down to Lady Lawson Street, I was confronted by the unusual sight of a fox trotting towards me on the other side of the driveway. "How odd", I thought. But quite pleasing. Certainly the closest I've ever experienced these beautiful and timid creatures. Well, maybe not so timid. It carried on past me, quite unperturbed by my presence.
Then,... later still,... on arrival at my flat, I encounter yet more livestock! This time in the form of a mouse,... scurrying first across the kitchen floor, then, horror of horrors, into my room,... then back into the hallway and into the utility room, where I promptly locked in, hoping that the snug fit between carpet and door would keep it quarantined until a trap can be procured! The hamster and fox I can cope with,... but the mouse is doing my head in! It is probably gorging itself on my washing powder as I write, before nesting in the box to have a litter of 16 micelets. I will never be able to wash laundry again. Save me from a clean clothes catastrophe!
Saturday, January 06, 2007
Merry Christmas to me...
I have a habit of buying Christmas presents for myself, and they usually involve travel. Christmas treat 2004 was flights to Iceland, which opened a whole new chapter in my life. Christmas 2005 saw the purchase of flights to Sweden, which was my first ever Christmas away from family. This Christmas (2006) I reaped a wad of cash from family, and I'll be using this in the most fabulous ways. Firstly, I'm buying a hydration back pack to encourage me to train for the Landmannalaugar to Þórsmork run (a cross-mountain ultra-marathon of some 55km in Iceland). My second indulgence will take place on Feb 24th when I head down to Newcastle for a day out and to hear the fantastic talent (in every department) that is MIKA! Check this guy out!
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