I have not long returned from a great evening with the girls. In belated celebration of mine and Becky’s birthdays, Becky and Rebecca journeyed down from BrisVegas and held us a special ‘Do’ full of laugher and frivolty.

It was so wonderful to see the ladies again and spend time to catch up with everyone. We played games, from pool through to Taboo, and ate lots of naughty foods. One possible highlight of the evening was me trying to express “Cottage Cheese” in a round of Taboo. My team (Carla and Rebecca) had the Cheese bit down pat, but when I tried to describe the first word as “A little house in the country with lots of flower gardens” Carla screamed out “Parmesan!”. Another great moment was Sophie trying to protray “Breed” by saying “Tyson is the only one in the room allowed to do this”. I’m not sure Sophie’s up to date with the latest legislation.

Speaking of Carla, it was so wonderful to see her again as I only ever get to catch up with her at the latest birthday party. There are still severe remnants of our high school years, during which we spent all day, every day together due to our timetables being the same. Check out this wonderful gift she bought me.

Special thanks also to Zoe who put her love and tears (and maybe a little arsenic) into a batch of cupcakes baked for me. You know how much I loved the “Cupped Cakes”! Shame everyone else ate them! My other great present was a sheet of name tag stickers from the ’70s Ursula picked up from a closing down time-capsule of a shop. It’s even better that the name on the stickers is Darren!

What a great night! Thanks to Becky and Rebecca for organising and hosting the evening. Photos are a bit on the scant side, but Rebecca took a number of photos (as did I on her camera), so I’ll post some of those when I get them.

I have posted a selection of some forty-odd photos from Little Shop of Horrors onto my Flickr stream today. Check out the Little Shop of Horrors photo set to view them all. It’s so wonderful to have incredible photos like these as a memory of the show. There are shows I’ve done which I have absolutely no photos of at all (like the first time I did Little Shop. Anyone out there have any?), so the professional photo set for this show and Charlie Brown are highly treasured.

All Our Children

The murder mystery party was great. You can see the photos here. Halfway through the second or third round I had seriously thought I had done it. The evidence was mounting. I think we even got into it more this time than last, and had a much better idea of what was going on story wise. I can’t wait for it to happen again! Who knew murder could be such fun!

I’m testing out some alternatives for including photos in my blog again. I thought iPhoto was the answer to my problems, but it’s just incredibly bulky and slow for me, so I’d rather not. Here’s a little flickr experiment, however this one will bring up all photos with the tag I specify. This is what happens when I specify sofas:

No photos found on flickr with tag(s) “sofas”.

Oh, and I have just spent the last five hours or so working on an assignment. I’m not slacking here.

Here was a shot of my school bag on the 24th of July, 2003. That bag must have been brand new because it’s still one I use today. Note my homemade faux fur work folder. How cool was I?
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