I'm going to apply for Disability Living Allowance.  I need Nik as my carer which means I am 90% eligible for it so why not go for it. 

Wish me luck

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.... PURPLE!!!!

Not just purple, but PURPLE!!!

mwuhahahahahaha

There should be a poll here but not sure if it's worked LOL

If not, the question was:  I'm going to dye my hair.  What colour should I go?

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I am going to colour my hair. So which colour should I go?

Well, all is going well.  I'm practicing for my certificate and have decided to do it in September rather than June due to personal issues etc etc etc.

I did manage to do this terms piece of work early, which was nice.  We had to do a Haiku and decorate it.

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I took it to class last night and the teacher was impressed considering it was my first piece of work with illustrations on it.  She then embarrassed the heck out of me by showing it to the class and then classmates said I should frame it as it very good.  We shall see.

.... officially starts tomorrow.

I am going to be submitting my calligraphy to C.L.A.S (Calligraphy Lettering and Arts Society) for their first qualification, which is the certificate.

I have to write an alphabet in size 1.5 nib in italic on A3 and then do 8 lines on A3 in size 1.5 and then 8 lines on A3 in size 3.

I took my work to the class tonight and the Teacher went over it with a fine tooth comb and said that it was coming on nicely and that 30 minutes practice a night was showing.  She said considering I'd been only doing it since January, and Italic is one of the hardest hands to learn, I'm doing astonishingly (her words) well.

So watch this space for updates.

If you aren't interested, let me know and I'll set up a filter.

Wish me luck!

Re-started calligraphy last night.  Managed to finish the end of term project yesterday and now don't want to illustrate it as I don't want to ruin it.  I don't have an artistic bone in my body.

This new term, we are learning Compressed Capitals.  It's similar to Roman Capitals but on a 5 degree slant, like the Formal Italics.  It's much easier so far because having learnt Formal Italics, the new hands are apparently going to be relatively simple.

I will be learning this alphabet for 3 weeks, including practice in the evenings.  And then I shall be doing 7 weeks of writing out my exam piece numerous times.  Have chosen the description of Ankh-Morpork from The Colour of Magic.  I am hoping they will read the quote and be laughing and not see too many mistakes :-)  This has to be handed in by the end of June.  This is for the Certificate in Calligraphy by C.L.A.S (Calligraphy and Lettering Art Society).  We also have to do a full alphabet in the hand of our choice.  If I don't make the June deadline, there is another one in September.   There are 3 classes a year and considering there are over 100 hands, I could be going to school for quite a while.  

Our teacher is also a book binder and she may be having an open day so we can go along and have a look at how that is done.  She is also learning heiroglyphics, which just sounds wonderful!

Watch this space for further updates.  If you don't want to hear about my escapades in Calligraphy, let me know and I'll do a filter.

Ta Ta for Now, my Lovelies.

I have to go to hospital tomorrow to have some injections into my back.  I am not looking forward to this.  My back is painful enough when someone just touches it, so the thought of someone sticking something very sharp into that area is scaring the living shit out of me :s

On the plus side, it could help (for 3 weeks).  On the downside, it won't.  However, won't know until they try.

I have been planning The Hubbsta's secret birthday present, along with family, for about two months.  I cannot believe I managed to keep it a secret; he had no idea.

We got him a Nikon D40 DSLR camera and he's chuffed to bits.

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Lola nicking Nik's crisps!!

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.... I shall be meeting up with some people I haven't seen since 1985 and I'm already bricking it.

Yes, it's the school reunion!

I was one of the "invisible" ones at school and a geek.

And I don't know what else to say.  I may come back to edit this later who knows.

However, advice would be good, apart from "enjoy yourself" :-)

That is all ....

She's definitely getting braver.  She's in the bedroom with us so that she's warm.  I was eating rice cakes earlier and she was straight out of the cage, onto my head and proceeded to climb down my face to get to said rice cake.  Switching between hands meant that she just flew to the hand with the rice cake.

Apparently they like rice; however not sure the stuff covered in caramel is a good idea ;)

Next week we get to play with paint; making 48 colours out of 8.

Also, I've decided to take a Certificate in calligraphy.

If you don't want to see these updates, let me know and I'll filter them.

Cheers

As I have bored with you before, I am taking calligraphy at night school.  It still rocks and I haven't given in which is a first :-)

However, I need to come up with a poem or prose or something that is relevant to me and that includes colour.  I am hoping someone may have an idea for me.

I was thinking about the theme tune to Rainbow :-)  Or First Picture of You by the Lotus Eaters (80's song).

Any suggestions gratefully received.

Nik has just come home and said that they are making 10-15 redundancies where he works.  fuck fuck fuck (sorry for language)

She's been a funny little thing today.  The snow has really freaked her out.  Her cage, in the living room, is by the french doors and when the snow started to come down hard today, she started chirping very loudly.

I took some video of her yesterday to send to her original owners to let them know that she is fine.  I started playing it today to check it when she was in the bedroom with me and she was straight out of the cage, and flew onto my hair, chirping her little heart out.  Do you know how loud a budgie is when she's on your head!!!

Then, yesterday, Hubbsta was eating his food and she decided that it would be fun to sit on his hand whilst he was eating.  Amusing!

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow" - Helen Keller

Went to the second calligraphy class last night, which rocked.  We learnt the next set of letters (the teacher breaks them into three types - unders, lovers and straight lines).  It's really fun and I got last night a lot easier than the week before.  Not surprising as I hadn't done any "proper" calligraphy before last week (my attempt to teach myself was a loss) and I practiced at least an hour every night until last night. 

Am paying for it today.  However, I don't care.  I just arrange my Thursday to be less busy.

Lola didn't want to even sit on my finger, let alone my shoulder yesterday.  This morning, she is back to being as mad as a box of frogs.  I bought her into the bedroom so that only one room has to be heated and I got her out of the cage.  Then it was time to explore the bedroom, using my head as a perch, as it's the tallest thing she could find in the room.  Then back to the cage, then flying over to the pillow.  Now she is ever so dirty and having to wash again.

If I broke her day down it would be: 12 hours sleeping, 5 hours cleaning, 5 hours eating and 2 hours being a tinker *adds up* *nods, yes that is 24 hours*.

Tad tired again today as I didn't sleep well last night.  Got up at 0630 to see if staying awake all day puts me into a natural sleep (fingers crossed).

Well, yesterday she was as mad as a box of frogs but I think she must have tired herself out as she's spent all of today asleep in her cage.  She won't even sit on my finger today. 

I don't think there is anything wrong with her; just having "one of those days".  No doubt when the Hubbsta comes home, he'll wind her up nicely :-)

If you don't want these updates, let me know and I'll make a special group.

Cheers