Kew in October

It's feeling properly Autumnal now, so going to Kew on Saturday was a bit different to usual (although in a good way). It's even more beautiful at the moment than normal, and it helps me to exorcise that feeling I get at this time of year when I want to run around taking photographs everywhere I go (so I took about a zillion). I thought these little trees looked a bit like hearts with their red leaves. Aaah. How lame of me.

James Blunt Funny Shocker

I'm so confused now.

Deck-Chairs in October

Enjoyed a lazy walk around Hyde Park on Sunday on an unusually hot day for October - T shirt weather! It was great, the Park looks beautiful at the moment with the leaves just starting to turn, although it was a little bit odd to see people sunbathing on deckchairs amongst brown fallen leaves.

Learning New Things

Dog on a bike, originally uploaded by Sailing ( Ronn ) "El Viaje".

I'm learning how to put my website together. Something new! Very exciting. I'm quite tired now though (blogging at gone 11 on Saturday night? loser!), so I'll keep it short and sweet. Surfice to say, it's going to be very simple, and it's going to take me aaaaages. So you won't see it for a while. I think I'm (slowly) getting it though. I love how instant it all is, something which really frustrates me about working in print (or really, working for print and then sending artwork away and seeing the results a week or two later). So short of going out and buying my own printing press - something I would LOVE to do but I'm not sure either my landlord or my boyfriend would be particularly pleased about as it would pretty much completely fill any remaining space in our flat (before promptly falling into the flat below. Then the flat below that.) - this is as instant as I'm going to get really. If you don't count polaroids. Oh, well, you know what I mean...

The Apples

Ok, ok, I know the whole bands doing unlikely cover-versions thing is getting a little tired now, but this one really is completely amazing. I you like Rage Against The Machine, and you like trumpets, you'll love The Apples.

Buy/Listen here. (And is that really a comment from Mark Ronson?)
theapplesmusic.com
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DJs With 60 Years Experience

The weekend saw an impromtu trip home for some yummy home cooking, force-feeding of cake and a (slightly) cheaper haircut. Lucky I managed to kind a Toni&Guy hairdresser who didn't have terrifying hair herself (although she did have fluorescent pink nail-tips).

It's always a bit like walking into a little time-warp going back to Cannock. I don't think I've heard as much dance music all year as I heard this weekend. And it's not just the bars & pubs - even down to over-hearing car stereos, walkmans and in every shop and, well, hairdressers. My small collection of entertaining club/bar flyers has been somewhat extended though. Perhaps I'll have to turn it into a flickr group now that I have all of 3. Apparently a DJ with 60 years experience is something worth advertising! It was great to catch up with S, and overall quite a fun night out (it's a lot easier to have fun there when you know you can leave again) apart from perhaps the odd intervention of a guy who seemed genuinely confused that we were having a nice time and even, yes, laughing. Now he was fairly drunk (or should I say, "tu-be faaairr, 'e wuz a bit drunnk"), but nevertheless it did make me feel a little bit sad, that he was so obviously so frustrated and bored by the place and yet it didn't seem to have occured to him to leave. Poor, strange man. Oh well, at least it will be quite amusing for my friends now that I'm once again over-pronouncing all my vowels.