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Evening all. I'm back at uni, and by golly have things been moving fast! I'll start at the very beginning. In late 2010, myself and a friend of mine, Andy, went to see a play called Lorca Is Dead, by the rather excellent Belt Up Theatre. It was inspiring. In early 2011, we went to see another play by Belt Up, The Boy James. This time, we started writing. By the summer of 2011 we had a (near

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God bless us, every one!

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Some thoughts: When going to the Globe, one must always stand. Unless you are medically unable to that is. But should you be fit and healthy, you should stand, preferably with your chin resting on the stage. There is no better way to experience Shakespeare - because that's what it is: experiencing. None of this passive, observing rubbish. You are right there, having stuff spat at you, being

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I'm going to go into masses of detail, since I don't have all the information to hand, but I feel it is worth mentioning.On Monday (27th) Royal Holloway announced it would essentially be cutting the Department of Classics and Philosophy. An official statement was released by the Head of Department, Anne Sheppard.Proposals for cuts affecting the Department of Classics and Philosophy at Royal

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In response to an inquiry by my friend Mary, I have decided to explain the name of this blog.It happened one bright sunny day, at the Winchester Hat Fair (=street theatre festival) and I was walking along with my good friend Katy, when I suddenly became aware, out of the corner of my eye, of something approaching at a worryingly rapid speed.As one does in such a situation, I flinched, and managed

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I know I haven't blogged for a (very long) while, but now I finally have something to say.You've probably heard about the cuts the government are imposing on the arts? If you're friends with me in the real world you almost certainly have.Alexander Wright, of Belt Up Theatre, sums it up far more neatly than me.There has been a lot of discussion about the arts cuts recently, particularly at the

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Today, I went to buy some bread.This was a special bread buyign trip as it occurred at 10pm, which is not usual bread buying time, due to the un-student-friendly habit of bakers to wake up early. Also due to the fact that shops tend to close.Anyway, Tegan and I were watching this video (which is pretty much jumper porn...) and once we'd finished drooling over the lovely jumpers, we noticed the

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After not doing laundry for two weeks, I learnt that I have got many, many socks...

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From my Twitter feed earlier today: Essay...ooh look! If I ping my washing line, all my socks jump in the air! Hahaa! Ping! Ping!! Hahahaa!! O_O

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As seen in Waterstones in Staines. Insensitive, bordering on offensive.More joyous offerings soon.

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New Bellowhead album on Monday. Oh yeeeeahh!Listen to it here.

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1. Always warm up before doing physical theatre. ALWAYS.2. If point one is ignored, stairs and hills are not your friends.3. Nor are toilets.4. Avoid the mushroom ravioli.5. Drama teachers never top being mental (in the best possible way).6. It is foolish to expect anything else.7. Afternoon tea is the best thing ever.8. Treating exhaustion by staying up late and reading Shakespeare is not

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Or university, as I believe it is known.Well, quite a few things have happened since I left you. I'm now living in a castle -My View- which is pretty darned nifty. All the neighbours are lovely, and the food's fine once you know what to avoid, so all is well. Except for the fire alarms.Yes, in the past two days, we have had three fire alarms. Although, admittedly, one of these was a drill.You see

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I have lived in Chandler's Ford my whole life. All of it. At the same house. So to be leaving on Saturday feels ever so slightly weird.Yup, this Saturday I move to uni. The next big adventure. It's a little bit terrifying.But enough of that. I'm trying not to dwell on it as every time I think about it I get a little prickle of panic in my stomach. I am trying very hard to ignore this

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*Roughly paraphrasedMe: I know what the difference between cobwebs and spiderwebs are.Dad: What is it?Me: Spiderwebs are made by spiders and cobwebs are made by male swans...Dad: Swans make webs?Me: Yeah, they're really big and sticky - no of course they don't!? (exchanges incredulous look with mother)Dad: Well I don't know. It could have been a special term or something...For a man who's

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Is the name of a song by a man who's name I have forgotten, as danced (?) to by Spymonkey at Miss Behave's Variety Night. Bit of trivia for ya there...Anyway, what I really wanted to talk about today is salesmen. You see, today, my pappa and I went on a trip to PC World and purchased a lovely laptop for university. (Actually, what I really wanted to talk about is how lovely and shiny my new

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I said I'd let you know when anything interesting happened, and it has, and I am letting you know accordingly.Actually two things have happened, and I'll tell you the second thing first because it's quicker to tell.I'M GOING TO SEE CIRQUE DU SOLEIL!!With Becky Boo, who I must say has an excellent taste in performances.I kept quiet about this because I didn't want everyone (yes, all eight of you)

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Still no mucho happening in KatieLand. I've been staying with my Grampa the past few days, but I suspect that's more interesting to me than to you...You know what I love? Greenbelt. Absolutely adore Greenbelt. As such I've been keeping an eager eye on the lineup for this year, and I'm certainly not disappointed.Musicwise, it looks like we're getting a bluesy, jazzy, soul-infested kinda vibe,

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Yes, once again my apologies about that. I was away for part of it though, in the wild wastes of Cornwall. Not much happened there, but I did get a new ukulele. He's called Jago, which according to half a dozen baby naming websites is the Cornish form of James. (Also, it's the surname of the theatre proprietor Mr Henry Jago, from the Doctor Who episode "The Talons of Weng Chiang", featuring Tom

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The rather excellent Jon Boden (of Bellowhead (see Blogroll) and Spiers and Boden and Jon Boden and the Remnant Kings and many other things besides no doubt) has started a podcast where he releases a folk song everyday. Huzzah! Get 'em here. The first two songs are out as of today. You will need iTunes by the way. If you don't have it you can get the music of loveliness here.What else...well, I'm

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This time tomorrow I will be free! Huzzah!Therefore I would like to do something interesting on Friday. And by interesting I mean free. Or at least cheap. But something that will get me out of the house...Any ideas?

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I had a rather productive day. I managed three hours of revision before totally losing the will to live, and managed to get hold of three job application forms. Hoorah.I feel I should draw your attention to a buddy of mine. He's new to the whole blogging thing, so be nice to him, ok?Ciao for now.

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I had two exams. Classics was good. General Studies was not but I don't care. I apologised to the the examiner in my conclusion, which may earn me sympathy points.The invigilator in my Classics exam looked quite a lot like Hector from the History Boys, only he had an slight Irish accent.That is all.

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Revision has turned me into a zombie. Seriously. I have spent a very large percentage of the past few weeks staring into space, and possibly drooling slightly. If I start looking hungrily at your head be very afraid.Plus, due to the lovely weather I've been sitting outside and revising, but what ends up happening half the time is that I'll write a few sentences then stare into space. Then a bird

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Winston Churchill once said that the best argument against democracy was a 5 minute conversation with the average voter. If our Eurovision entry this year is anything to go by, I'd say that holds true. Just remember folks, we voted for that.Couldn't we have at least got someone who can sing in tune?Anyway, welcome to my (near enough) real time Eurovision blog. What this means in practical terms

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Tomorrow is the first of my Notraves...I'm not looking forward to it.Aa a friend of mine pointed out on Facebook, I should probably get off the internet and revise, but in all honesty I think I've done about as much as I can. I know (or can pretend I know) plenty of statues, pots and temples, and I'm pretty good on the sanctuaries. I even went on a self-imposed educational trip to the British

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So, despite the dates on my recent posts, I have blogged more recently than that. Silly Blogger.In the interim? Why, raves and notraves of course. Raves being a couple of damn good evenings spent with the Much Adoers, notraves being impending Classics exams. But we shan't dwell on that.Anyone ever seen 'Closer'? It's a play by Patrick Marber, and I believe also a film of the same name with some

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After another long coach trip, and a long conversation about hypnotism, Tom agreed to put me in a trance that night. After exploring the town (which is like any seaside town on the Isle of Wight, except more Greek) and eating a dinner of dodgy fish, we returned to the hotel...Tom put me in a trance while Em and Leslie watched/read/played DS. Watching someone being put under using a progressive

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Olympia was the friendliest place we went. A couple of the people I was with were given Tipoli (I think...basically it's a stronger-than-ouzo kinda thing) by a shopkeeper, and our teacher was accosted by an American who sold replica art. It was brilliant.The sanctuary, while not as spectacular as Delphi, was very pretty, with blossom trees all over the place, and the running track proved amusing.

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I like Delphi. It's my favourite sanctuary (=place where temples, treasuries, etc. are, for none-Classics bods).I like Delphi so much that I didn't even care about the four hour coach journey to get there. Why not? Because the last hour and a half or so was through some of the most stunning mountains I've ever seen.The hotel at Delphi was brilliant, a really, really big improvement on Athens. For

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Apologies, my computer had a falling out with the internet last week. They've made up now, at last...So, as promised, here is part one of my series of blogs about Greece. And it really will be a series for once, as I intend to write them all tonight, along with one about Switzerland. So there.Right then, Athens. As I'm sure you are aware, it's the capital of Greece, and as such, is much like any

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Ok, I promise I will tell you about Greece, post pictures, etc, but at the mo, I'm kinda in a hurry.You know I told you about Switzerland? Well, the past few days have been interesting, given the volcanoes and ash and all sorts. For a while it looked like we couldn't go at all, then it looked like we would be going by train and today, we were finally given the all clear.So my dears, I will be

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...to speak of many things.Well well well, a new Doctor Who. (Yes I am aware more exciting, Grecian things have happened, but I'll deal with those in separate post(s).) I know he's been about for a bit, but the Daleks came back tonight as well, so it feels apt. What do we think?I'm trying very hard to reserve judgement but...I'm leaning towards not liking him/it. That's the thing with this season

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Yesterday I did lots of things. I got baptised, whilst wearing Christmas socks. I ate chocolate. And I went esploring with Becky, Magnemite and a tennis ball called Barry Dunlop.Firstly, the baptism. It wasn't just a baptism, oh no! It was a baptism and a confirmation and a being-made-a-church-member all in one. Which I think should have a name. Confirtism? Bapirmation? Hmmm...Anyway, yes, it was

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April, methinks, will be a good month.First, I'm being baptised, and confirmed and made a member of my church, all within about 10 minutes of each other. On Easter Sunday. Which will be awesome :) Let me know if you want to come, I'll give you details.Then I'm going to Greece on a Classics trip, to go look at all the old broken stuff. I've had a quick Google of the hotels and the one in Delphi

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I must have mentioned my Extended Project by now? A play, based on "Alice in Wonderland", yada yada yada?Anyhoo, my Mum rang yesterday (she's visiting her parents) saying that I have a relative (cousin thrice removed as it turns out) who also wrote a spin off on "Alice in Wonderland". Yates-Wilson he's known as, and the book's called "More Alice".Strange coincidence?

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Tonight, for all you lovely boys and girls, I've got you an essay.I went to see Rob Bell last night, (more of which in later posts I hope) and this was one of the things he brought to our attention. This was written by a chap called Hugh Gallagher on his application to New York University."I am a dynamic figure, often seen scaling walls and crushing ice. I have been known to remodel train

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Yes ladies and gentlemen, Derren Brown has raped my brain.I went to see him tonight, with Rosstopher and Ememily, and I have to write this now, because if I don't I won't sleep tonight.Firstly, I got to go up! I caught the first frisbee he threw, so I went up and did a trick with him. We've been forbidden from talking about the show, but I will tell you I did, as he did something very similar on

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Fromage Frais.Today, I went to the meeting about the trip to Greece I'm going on this Easter with college. It's going to be gooood.The purpose of this trip is to go and look at all the old, broken stuff we have to do an exam on. Which in itself is actually pretty exciting. Sure, metopes and pediments are dry on paper, but standing in front of 'em should be way better.So that's all well and

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I'm not even going to bother with excuses, you've read 'em so often they've become cliches. Unfortunately, cliches are often clices because they're true.I've just finished my latest knitting project. (No, not that one, the other one.) If you saw me at college on Friday chances are I had a pair of needles in my hands. That's because I decided to knit my mum something for Mothers' Day, and only had

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It was my final coursework performance in Drama today. Which was a good thing. Everyone was getting sick to death of the their coursework.It went well. Except for the bit where I 'cut' my hand (for a satanic ritual...it's Gothic Horror) and blood comes out. Oh my.Obviously, I wouldn't really cut my hand (daft I may be, but not that daft) so I've been using home made squibs (essentially blood bags

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I saw Spymonkey's 'Moby Dick' last night...again.It was, as I expected, excellent. They'd added bits since last time, which were really good, but to be honest I would have gone to see it even if they hadn't.Henry, Hayley and Rachel accompanied me on this latest jaunt. I think they all enjoyed it, but the difference in our senses of humour was neatly summed up by Rachel and Henry's looks of horror

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My sister dragged my poor mum to Hollister today, and came back sporting a new T-shirt and the pronouncement that there were tops in there I 'would have liked'...This sounded rather ominous, so I had a (very) quick look on Hollister's website to see what was what.They were right, there are some nice looking shirts in there. However, I have one major problem with them.They're made by Hollister.See

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Or 'Never Tickle A Sleeping Dragon', for those who aren't Romans, or in Hogwarts.I've been a reasonably busy soul of late. 6 hours of drama rehearsal at college today. Yeah, on a Saturday. In half term. There's dedication for ya.Various other bits and pieces too, but that's the biggest, lumpiest one. If you see what I mean.SWITZERLAND!!! I'm going to Switzerland in April. With Drama. I am going

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It's true, they are. I think it might have somethign to do with getting shampoo in them. And watching too much telly.Not my fault, my Eddie Izzard box set came yesterday, and I naturally have to watch all seven shows and the extra bits and pieces as soon as possible.This is likely to have side effects however. Apart from the aforementioned itchy eyes, Eddie will probably start having cameos in my

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Again I find myself apologising for lack of blogs. I've been busy. Again.And also, I've not had a huge amount to say.I saw Avatar today though. It's rather good isn't it? I must say, I would rather like one of those winged beasties...Anyways, I'm off barn dancing tonight, which should, as ever, be fun.Ciao for now...

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'Pologies about lack of blogs of late. Have been been dashing about the country pretending to be normal so that universities will give me a place. And highly irritating it's all been too.Ah well, it's finished. Now all I have to do is apply for wait for one last offer, decide on my choices, apply for finance, apply for accommodation and tackle the mountain of work I have to do.Doesn't seem all

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Lately I have been listening to a lot of this man:Not only is his music kick ass awesome (yeah, that's a technical term for ya there) he also has pretty smart ideas about life in general. As I hope that little interview demonstrates.So anyway, look him up. Michael Franti and Spearhead. Or if you're more cinematically inclined, try and get hold of his film, 'I Know I'm Not Alone.' You can find all

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Dear People Who Make Ready Brek,As I'm sure you are aware, it's been somewhat chilly of late, with an influx of slippy white stuff causing widespread panic across the nation. As a result, I have taken to eating your product at breakfast, attracted by claims that I can "Be ready for anything with Ready Brek."I must admit that I am disappointed however. The very advert which provided me with this

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The novelty of snow has worn off. Actually, it wore off about 3 days ago.Thanks to the glut of cold slippy stuff outside, I have spent most of the past three days, inside.Except for today, when I went to church and bought a bookshelf. (They were seperate trips.)And yesterday, when I went to the dentist and got some photos for my passport. (Again, seperate trips.)So I haven't actually spent all

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But we don't have a fire. And it wasn't that bad really... The view from my window this morning Rachel, the evil sledge genius Snowman! Pirate Man Of The Woods Snowman(ie. He wouldn't stand up, and was at least 1/5 bunny poop)Merry Snow Day!

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Firstly, in response to recent comments: Thanky for all the nice things said about my little animation, that made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.Jenny. No. I will not enter Total Wipeout no matter how many times you write 'please' in capital letters. Quite apart from anything else I think the filming is when our exams are this summer. Plus, y'know, I don't have all that much dignity, but what

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I've just downloaded the entry form for the Beeb's 'Total Wipeout' gameshow. You know, the one where Richard Hamster sits in front of a massive screen making snide remarks, while various people of questionable sanity wobble and slip their way across a massive obstacle course.(Before you call the men in white coats, no I'm not considering entering, I'm just curious.)Anyway, let me talk you through

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You know I'm always raving about Duke Special?Well, you should all look at this. And give him money.That is all.Goodnight.

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...jingle all the way.Jingle is a really odd word to look at, in lower case... jingle... see?Anyhow, Christmas is upon us. And what does this mean? Yes, that's right, Christmas telly schedules!My pick of this year's crop would have to be David Tennant in Hamlet (indulging the Shakespeare nerd in me), a new Poirot, and of course, the Doctor Who finale of the year...Not to mention of course, all

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Oui oui, bonjour! I've been in Paris! It was fun. Here are some pictures and quotes and things... (Maybe more soon.)"Keep it in! PLASTER!!"(We were talking about babies...)Don't Blink. Or Hadrian will eat you.At the pub: "He's trained in ninjutsu, that doesn't make him a real ginger!" Cue 10 minute laughing fit while Joe watches rugby, distinctly unimpressed.Helena: "What IS that?!"A couple of

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I went to Royal Holloway for the second of my uni interviews/auditions/UCAS days. They have to be confusing and all do different things.Anyhoo. We got there around 11am, which gave us plenty of time to go on an accommodation tour (impressive) and get some lunch (soup and profiteroles - yummy) before a drama-filled afternoon. As we still had some time to kill, Dad and I went to the midweek choir

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First of - I do not like trains. I spent five hours on one today, about 2 hours of which were spent sitting outside the not-particularly-fragrant toilet, on the floor, listening to a gaggle of middle aged women whinging about having to stand up. Ah well, at least I had Andrew for company, and I didn't have it as bad as him anyway. He had to go to Manchester yesterday. I really don't envy

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Forgive non-blogation of late? I've been deistracted by impending university 'interviews' (/auditions/UCAS days/whatever else they want to call them). And by impending, I mean tomorrow.This is a little blog as I need sleep, so that I can hopefully look slightly less like the waking dead at Birmingham tomorrow...

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I'm having music theory lessons at the moment...I'm currently on Grade 2. Grade 1 was easy, a few key signatures, learn where the notes go, nice and simple. Grade 2 is HARD. Whoever invented minor keys was an eejit and deserves a slap. THEY DON'T MAKE SENSE.Anyway, onto brighter things. Paris soon! Have I mentioned that before? I'm going to Paris for a few days with Drama...eeee!! Tis very

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Why oh why oh why do train fares cost so much? I have to get to Birmingham for an audition for uni and it's likely to cost me around £60. Ok, that's before my Young Person's Rail Card discount, but still...the Government want us to use public transport more, and then they say they'll make it cheaper. Here's an idea. Make it cheaper, then more people will want to use it.

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Guess what I just had!Soup.Yeah. Soup.Leek and potato.It was awesome.Way more awesome than your lunch.So there.You know what I had after?Bagle.Cinamon and raisin.Cos I am just that cool.

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It was the Winchester Fireworks on Saturday. I got fire on a stick. It made me happy. Here are some pictures:You throw bunny ears at us, you get bunnies...My, what an attractive bunch we are...Sparklers!

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I have a headache at the moment. It hurts.I'm slightly bewildered by my lack of blogs in the past week or so. You see, it's not like I've not been on the web or not been on Blogger or anything. I actually visit my own blog fairly frequently. Not please that this is not egotism, it's merely the easiest way to keep tabs on the other blogs I read (via the good ol' blogroll).I've recently got into

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I have been. The last few days not so much, the last couple of weeks, plenty.I'm sure I've mentioned Our Country's Good? (Though I just checked my tags list, and it didn't come up, so perhaps not.) Anyway, it's a play by Timberlake Wertenbaker, about the redemptive power of theatre, set in a Victorian convict colony in Australia. (You can tell I've written a few essays with that in, can't you?)

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I think it was at this point that Andrew yelled "You're EIGHTEEN!?!"Henry avoiding the camera there... Clearly something had pleased me...can't remember what though...I'm sure it was wonderful!Everybody together :)

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That's right, I'm 8 today.So what am I doing to celebrate my birthday?Well, currently I'm listening to the Spin Doctors again (I've become slightly addicted). I'm going out for a meal with me buddies this evening, and the zoo with my family this afternoon...cos I'm a grown up *ahem*.Incidentally, if you were concerned/wondering/even faintly interested in my lack of posts this month, it is because

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It was Adam's 18th yesterday. Twas another good party, involving much curry, Guitar Hero and booze (which meant taking pictures for me, naturally).Incidentally, sag aloo is really, really nice. And the curry place near Adam's is nice too. Yom.Aside from being amazed at the amount of booze that Adam had managed to obtain, we played a lot of Guitar Hero (until about half one in the morning I think)

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She is. It was her 18th on Saturday. I had the amusing and eye-opening experience of being the only sober person at a party. Which gave me the opportunity to take pictures... *grins evilly*So yeah, it was good. I think Ross already blogged about it, so I won't repeat him. Though I must say, he and Jennie do a mean Macarena.Not much happening today, though there were a number of oddly-placed

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Just a super-quick post to tell you all I'm not dead or anything, just lazy, which is why I've not posted in a week... I used to be way better at this...Anyways, it's late and I still have prezzies to wrap... there's something of a spate of birthdays happening at the mo. 3 of my friends this month - hectic.Surrey and Becky's 18th tomorra, so I'd best be off.Ciao for now...Incidentally, I don't

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I saw Spymonkey last night. They were very very funny.The show was called Moby Dick, though I'm not sure how much of the plot of the original they actually followed...It reminded me a bit of a Goon Show actually - which is really no bad thing. Not much seems to have been said about it, so I'll follow suit - wouldn't want to ruin would I?All I will say is this:There are no stairs where he comes

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This man.EEJIT!!Alright, I am possibly slightly biased but really. Attacking Fiona Shaw for "speaking in broad Oirish" - she is bloody Irish!! That's like going abroad and complaining the people are all foreign.The second to last paragraph: "Poor old Gore Vidal has even been wheeled out to add a touch of big-name gravitas to the occasion" - you've just spent an entire review slating

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I went and saw Mother Courage on Thursday...IT WAS AMAZING!!I'm now desperate to go and see it again. The style of it, and the music and the acting and...wow.I think I may be in love. Is it possible to marry a production?I should probably explain that Mother Courage And Her Children is a Brecht play about this woman (Mother Corage, played by Fiona Shaw) trying to survive, keep her family together

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Knitting is seriously bad for your health.It is. Ask my arms. They kill at the moment, and all because of knitting (probably). Also, my eyes aren't too happy either. Gah.

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Ahoy, 'tis Speak Like a Pirate Day this day. Unfortunately I haven't done anythin' extra piratey, as we were visitin' family buckos, an they wouldn't have got it... me Facebook speak be set to scurvy pirate though, does that count?Oh, yarr, in case ye were wonderin', 'tis message be comin' to ye via th' Post Like A Pirate site. Anyhoo, feelin' bad 'bout me lack 'o piracy, I did take 'tis wee

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As Jonesy would say...not that I would really expect any of you to know who Jonesy is.What have I been up to? Plenty really, though nothing interesting. I've become addicted to knitting and have started my first Clanger, that was quite exciting.College again from Tuesday, which wasn't so fun. Speaking of which, I have a load of stuff to do asap...hmm...Matt did a vlog about Greenbelt.Other than

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We all had a day off college today, as thw Lower Sixth start today. Which means busy buses tomorrow...grr...Anyway, I had a fairly relaxing day, sorted out some train stuff in the morning and toddled off to Tom's after lunch. There we watched Tom, Jenny and my Year 3 school play, followed by our Year 6 school play...much to our embarrassment (though Jenny escaped by not being there...).After that

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I was handed another ukulele today. A particularly mystifying one. I've got it on loan at the moment.It's a wooden banjolele.At least I'm pretty sure it is. I'm not over keen on banjoleles, so I don't know a great deal about them, but this looks and sounds like one, which is good enough for me.I've had it all of half an hour or so, so I've not got down to measuring up and what not yet. I'm still

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There was a dog on the bus.

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I had to make it rhyme...ish...General Studies today was, well I was going to say interesting, but that, I'm afraid, would be a lie. The upshot of it was mildly amusing though.We were pointed towards a website (politicalcompass.org) which tells you what your political views are after you take a test. Out of boredom I did this test, and the results weren't exactly groundbreaking - they put me in

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I've just realised there's only two more days before college...how depressing.I've still not written my personal statement - though I have got about half way through, which is a reasonable start I feel. I also need to finish writing up my rather meagre offerings for a 'play' - which is turning out to be more hard work than I anticipated. Gah.Anyway, other than that, not much happening. I'm sure I

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Me with Duke Special - note the look of terror on my face...not sure why...Duke Special's finale (before the squashing): A handstand on the piano...Waiting for Duke Special - the excitement was tangibleBeer and Hymns...this picture pretty much sums it up...we were stood on a table...These are likely to come in drips and drabs, so this is the first batch. Thank you to Matt for the pictures!

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Was v. amazing. No pictures as of yet, so I'll just have to tell you about it.Friday was...ok...setting up tents mostly. Saw yFriday (awesome) then went to the Twist in the evening.Saturday was cool, I went to see Rob Bell (Christian pastor/thinker/clever guy) which was cool, and then Alex Horne, from the telly - except he's much better in real life. Then I performed at the Late Night Twist,

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Well, I'm off (or "awf" if we're continuing the theme) for the weekend because it's GREEEEENBEEEEELLLTTT!!!Hoorah!Ciao for now!

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I gave up on the film I was going to make on Saturday. Thanks to those of you who did suggest ideas, but in the end the script was a bit crap, and I didn't feel it was worth it.Filming for Staggerov was completed on Sunday, so we'll be editing that soon.Other than that, not much happening except for Greenbelt on Friday!Ciao for now.

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The mission is now finished for you. For me it's just beginning.I'll be making the film today, and will let you know the winner (s?) later today.Thanks for all who gave suggestions.

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Ok, first, go here and read this. I'm not going to cross post.Done? Good. Now, here is your mission. I get a whole day with this camera, and I need to ahem test it's capabilities ahem. So dear readers, I need you - tonight! - to comment on this post, or text or tweet or Facebook or something me, with ideas of a short film that I can make.There are limitations to this project. They are as follows:

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I'll bet you did.Anywhom, I'm back from Spain, but no time for that now. I'll tell you all about it when I have some pictures.In my absence however, much has been happening. Those curious cats among you may have already followed the link in the comment on my previous post. For those who haven't, have a shufty at this.There's a fair amount of preperation to be done in the following week, both for

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I forgot that yesterday I told myself I'd post today and do some boring housekeepingy stuff. I got a tad distracted by several phone calls from my pal Liam, about a little project that chances are, wuite a few of you know about already. So I'm v. happy because we can hire a camera for way less than I expected, which is awsome. And no, I'm not going to enlighten the rest of you, you'll just have

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We went to a lavender farm today, which had a little tearoom, which we naturally had to sample. Hence the very healthy lunch of cream teas (with lavender scones), toasted teacakes and in the case of my sister, chocolate fudge cake.There was even little heart-shaped lavender shortbread with the tea. Lavender, it transpires, is v. tasty. For those who haven't eaten it, you know how nice lavender

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Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince...No.I've just watched it. I don't exactly regret it...but then I'm also glad I didn't have to pay for the ticket.Hats off to the writers though, they have managed what I though impossible. They have managed to spin out the most shallow, brief synopsis of an excellent book into a two and half hour film, wasting $235 million in the process. Bravo! Well done

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I hate hayfever...gah.Did you like the video by the way? What do you mean you haven't seen it yet?! Go and have a look now.What have I been up to? I've been finding things on Spotify. More accurately, Alabama 3 and various things involving Neil Hannon, including his new project, the Duckworth Lewis Method. As far as I can make out, it's an album of comically inclined songs about cricket. I don't

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...It's video time!

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I'm back! Did ya miss me? Yeah, I'll bet you did.Arundel (or aRUNdel if we're pronouncing it ahem properly) was amazing. Particularly Thursday. It was sunny and lovely and we spent almost the entire day on the beach. And I made a sand octopus with Tom, and it was called Oswald.I could rabbit on for ages, but they say a picture is worth a thousand words, so I'll take that shortcut. In fact, I'll

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No more college! Hoorah! Although, as I mentioned before, I'm not completely free, still much going on, though it is a rather more enjoyable sort of much than double history.Anyhoo, aRUNdel on Monday, which should be good. I won't be blogging I shouldn't think, but I will try and tweet as often as poss, so have a follow...Other than that, not too much happening in the immediate future, so I shall

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Is what I have been. My most humble apologies.Despite exams being over, I seem to be busier than ever. This summer for instance, I have the following things to do:Go to Arundel (next week! eeee!) with friends.Go to Spain, with familyGo to Greenbelt. EEEEEEEE!!Write a playMake a short filmMake puppets for an animationRead 4 Drama books, 2 Writing books, 2 Classics books and a play script. Possibly

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Firstly, here are some beautiful pictures:We made Henry try on this wig. Suits him rather, doesn't it?Meanwhile, I found this helmet... I swear, if it wasn't £20, I would have bought it.Hat Fair was awesome. It really has nothing to do with hats, but oh well, the rest of it was good, particularly Orkestra del Sol. 1-2-3 OI! I like polkas. They're fun.Jenny had a barbecue on Sunday, that was fun

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