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Oh, I'm having a Good day :-)

posted by [personal profile] bugshaw at 02:45pm on 26/09/2008
Thursday was good too, with a documentary about early female astronauts with beautiful photography of clouds, tea and home-made cake with [livejournal.com profile] hilaritas, dinner and talking to friends at Geek Pub, then back to the cinema for a time travel film that was actually quite satisfying. They usually annoy me.

Today I had a nice hour's walk in the sunshine to the hairdresser; thinking about tomorrow's pancake party I realised I could make a duck and hoisin sauce filling. A Sharpie-decorated room posted by [livejournal.com profile] marypcb clicked in my mind with my ideas for the downstairs bathroom, and I think I'm now in a position to actually do something with it! I might need help from someone to climb around the bathroom with string and pencils at some point. And I'm going to need a lot of Sharpies.

Skirting Tesco and Sainsbury's, I bought a lot of staples for pancake-making from the Co-op, and now I'm going to enjoy walking along Mill Road and buying things from Bacchanalia, Northrop's, Arjuna and Al-Amin.
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posted by [identity profile] 1ngi.livejournal.com at 02:12pm on 26/09/2008
That room is amazing!

Think the strength is the design and that it is all line work rather than solid blocks of colour - I can imaging stuff like this working really well too!

http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/illustrations-vectors/4652986-floral-design.php?id=4652986

As line drawings - not with the background.

Hmmm - I've got a studio to decorate at some point...
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 03:38pm on 26/09/2008
Oh yes, that is good.

I'm thinking more along the lines of Escher's Symmetry drawings, start with a grid and a few tesselating creatures, stretch out the grid so its blocks are more irregular, maybe leave a few pens in the bathroom and see what happens :-)
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posted by [identity profile] 1ngi.livejournal.com at 03:45pm on 26/09/2008
Ooo - I like that idea :) Be careful of visitors disappearing for hours...
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 03:49pm on 26/09/2008
Luckily we have another three bathrooms...

My blue sky goal could be to enter the room in Cambridge Open Studios next year :-)
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posted by [identity profile] mkillingworth.livejournal.com at 02:27pm on 26/09/2008
Sounds like fun. Should we bring anything tomorrow?
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 03:43pm on 26/09/2008
No, it's fine. Maybe a little beverage or crisps if you have such to hand? I'll get some beer from Bacchanalia but not huge amounts as I can't use leftovers.
Edited Date: 2008-09-26 03:50 pm (UTC)
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posted by [identity profile] major-clanger.livejournal.com at 02:47pm on 26/09/2008
Yes, it is your downstairs bathroom now and you can do what you like with it! :-)

I seem to recall that Rymans were selling Sharpies at a discount the last time I was in there.
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 03:40pm on 26/09/2008
> Yes, it is your downstairs bathroom now and you can do what you like with it! :-)

Mwa ha ha!

> I seem to recall that Rymans were selling Sharpies at a discount the last time I was in there.

Mwa ha ha ha!!
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posted by [identity profile] del-c.livejournal.com at 02:59pm on 26/09/2008
That moving image is a great accompaniment to the article too. It's slow enough not to distract you from reading the text, unlike the obnoxious adverts that try to drill though your carefully-cultivated ad-blindness. But, eventually, you see everything: a lot more pixels than you normally get outside the medium of a glossy magazine.
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 03:50pm on 26/09/2008
Yes, I liked it a lot.
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posted by [identity profile] ms-cataclysm.livejournal.com at 03:25pm on 26/09/2008
will see you tomorrow -am bringing self, booze but not Roger
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 03:41pm on 26/09/2008
Yay :-)
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posted by [identity profile] intelligentrix.livejournal.com at 04:32pm on 26/09/2008
When I read, my brain often supplies helpful words which are not exactly the ones on the page (this happens more often when reading on-line, for some reason). So instead of "bathrooms" I saw "ballrooms". Huh, I thought, Bug has not just one ballroom, but multiple ones? Just how big *is* this house of hers?
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posted by [identity profile] bibliofile.livejournal.com at 11:17pm on 26/09/2008
She'd need a lot more than $10 worth of Sharpies, too.
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posted by [identity profile] lupie-stardust.livejournal.com at 04:47pm on 26/09/2008
The Sharpie room is the best thing I have ever seen.
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posted by [identity profile] woolymonkey.livejournal.com at 05:03pm on 26/09/2008
That's a cool room! If only I could draw...

And it's good to see we have the same favourite shops, though fruit, veg, cheese and bread from the market are also high on my list. And Limoncello.
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 06:08pm on 26/09/2008
Do come round for pancakes on Saturday if you like :-)
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posted by [identity profile] woolymonkey.livejournal.com at 07:15pm on 26/09/2008
Sadly, I'm working until 4pm at least, and then I really must spend some time with my children before they forget what I look like.

Thanks for the invitation - hopefully another time...
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posted by [identity profile] tamaranth.livejournal.com at 09:20pm on 26/09/2008
DUCK!

And eeee to Sharpie-decorated bathroom!

And to having a good day!
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posted by [identity profile] despotliz.livejournal.com at 12:06am on 27/09/2008
The Works near the Grafton Centre was selling off a whole load of Sharpies last time I went in.
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posted by [identity profile] fatdog.livejournal.com at 01:24am on 27/09/2008
Hope you have/had (or are having) a good party!
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 09:51am on 27/09/2008
I'm still at the stage of being slightly fretful about the lawn-mowing that needs to be done, and the beverages to be purchased. And if I'm making pancakes, a frying pan might be useful :-)
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