Edinburgh Fringe 2015

This festival season seemed to fly by, of course August is busy for Dixon and I normally with our anniversary, Island of Punk, and the Rebellion Festival, this year though I only did 1 out of those three and it still flew by so I only managed to see three things this year at the festival.

 The festival opened this year with the Harmonium Project, which was accompanied by coral singing, it was extremely busy and if you could get a second where you weren't being pushed and could take a moment to enjoy it it was gorgeous. A few of us from the studio went out to it together.

Secondly Hayley Gail and I went to see Nick Helm's Can Somebody For the Love of God Please Make All of This Pain and Misery Go Away (Work In Progress), which was great, Nick Helm is always funny, we saw him last year as well. But this show was a lot more understated than the year before. A lot less explosions and sparkle suits but still just as fun. We even managed a wee photo with him before the show, so we all three got a photo with him. He was really nice about it.

And to close out the festival I just managed to see Trainspotting live with Beth, which was as funny as it was intense, I managed to grab a few photos of the rave that opened the show, I don't know how they managed to act after going that mental for that long, and a wee photo of the sets grafitti. It was so well done, Im glad we managed to make it to it.

And so that was my fesitval this year, hopefully next year I will have gotten to some more shows and be working slightly less hours.

Walking in Troon

We headed out to Troon the day after the Swingin Utters gig, makin it out there for the Thursday afternoon. We don't often get to spen a whole day with Daz and Mhairi so it was great that we were going for a couple days, though I had to back for my last shift ever at Route One on the Sunday. It was still a nice couple days taking a wee break. The rest of Thursday we just chilled out and recouperated a wee bit from Wednesday night, and Friday was much the same, though we went out for dinner at their prospective wedding venue, with their daughter as well, which was really nice. So nothing to stressful, it was a great venue and I was going to take some photos, but by the time we got out there the sun was basically down so I didn't end up bothering. It did look beautiful when we walked up though.

Saturday we walked Jura, their Elkhound, now I really want a dog, but all the pet hair is still putting me off. It was everywhere, we have washed some of our clothes twice and it still won't go away. But the walk was great down the shore. And it turned out to be a really nice day for it. So it was a nice wee break to finish up the week before changing jobs, but more exciting news on that later.

Swingin Utters and ToyGuitar in Glasgow

We don't head through to Glasgow very often, so when we do its usually for a gig, and this time it was an amazing one. So we thought we would make a wee weekend of it as well, spend the night and head out to sunny Troon to see Darren and Mhairi for the weekend after. It was an amazing gig and everyone in the bands was nice enough to listen to all of the shite we were talking. So that was great. It was really cool to be able to see and say hello and cheers for everything. So I hope they had as much fun playing as we did dancing, singing and drinking along with them. 

As you can see from the last picture we were feeling it the next day but it was definitely worth it. Lemonades all round.

 

All Things Van Gogh

I recently started cross stitching again, and I thought I was doing pretty well so I wanted to challenge myself with something bigger and what better than to fuel my ever growing  love of Van Gogh than to do a cross stitch of one of his paintings. Now when I looked into it, I didn't think it would be as complex, but I am having a brilliant time working it all out and here's the progress over the past week and a wee bit.

You can totally start to see it come together, bu that is just on panel out of four, my plan is to do it a panel at a time, and move forward that way so I don't get too ahead of myself!

Also while we are on the Vincent Van Gogh topic, I stumbled upon a kickstarter for an entirely handpainted animated movie of the story of Vincient Van Gogh as told through his paintings, unfortunately the kickstarter wasn't funded but the good news is they are going to relaunch it! Its well worth checking out what they are doing!

You can find their Facebook here and hopefully a link will pop up for the kickstarter too!

And finally, I got a few surprises in the mail, one from Amber, she had been to Harry Potter; The Exhibition, in Edmonton and passed on some goodies to me! And a Parcel from my mom full of sweets and a Tim Hortons mug, now I will just need to get my hands on some Time Hortons Coffee!

14 Days In

Another week gone and another seven days happy, and here they are.

1. Kindle and Chocolate covered peanuts, magic

2.Sunny day taking the recycling away

3. New limited Terry Pratchett book that are gorgeous

4. Taking up cross stitching

5. Louise Bourgois Exhibit

6. Drinks with Dixon and friends

7. Walking round Cramond with Mhairi and Jura her dog.

100 Days Happy is going really well! I mean, I think it is, it turns out I am pretty easily pleased, give me a sunny day, some books or friends and it turns out that's all it takes. But I think the magic is in  acknowledging  the little things that make your life great and remembering to capture the moment. So its been a lot of fun doing that so far. 

New Year

I hope everyone had a brilliant New Year, mine was pretty great from the moments I remembered, as well as had some downs, but I am not going to focus on that. This year me and Dixon were next to each other when 2014 hit and that was a first, making it pretty special already. 

I'm totally looking forward to 2014, so I hope everyone else is too!

I got totally spoiled this Christmas, it was incredible, and we had an awesome day, Gail and Gordon came over for breakfast, and Dixon made a massive feast with a Buck's Fizz to go with it which was both elegant and funny in our plastic wine glasses. And the Dinner at Gail and Gordon's was amazing, Hayley made me a Lentil Loaf, which I need to get the recipe for, and some of the best Brussel Sprouts I have ever had. It was a really fun day.

I took some pictures, and Dixon took more, so I will have to see what he has and maybe add them later.

I also didn't think that I would have continued on with the blog as long as I have and though there have been some gaps I think it is only going to get better so thanks for reading and we will see what this year has in store.