Thank you to everyone who responded to my last couple of posts.

Kate did indeed win the competition. : )

"Posted by Admin | July 1st, 2009
And the winner of Tell Me About Your Character is:
Renette
So congratulations to Kate Evans, who will be travelling across the pond to visit Gen Con Indy this August.
We’d like to thank all the entrants and all of you who took the time to sign up to this site and cast your vote. There were some very good submissions and it’s just a shame that only one person could win in the end."

Kate is now in the final to win her trip to roleplay goodness in the US. Please go and vote for her again today and help her win! would

Vote for her character - Renette
www.tellmeaboutyourcharacter.co.uk


"Hi all

A friend of mine Kate Evans who plays Gerogie in the Urchins in the Harts Faction has managed to get herself into the last 4 of a competition to win an all expenses paid trip to Gencon USA (Probably the best roleplay convenion out there).

The last step of the competition comes down to public votes, so this is a shameless beg for any of you who have a few minutes to head on over and vote for me if you feel so inclined.

The website is www.tellmeaboutyourcharacter.co.uk and you will need to vote for her character, Renette

You do need to register before you can vote but this only takes about 30 seconds and your information will be deleted as soon as the competition ends so you won't get any spam, etc.

Voting is done in a knockout style tournament, so if all goes well and she gets through this round I would ask you all to pop back to the site on tomorrow to help get her through the final and win.

Needless to say this is a once in a lifetime opportunity and I would be eternally grateful to anyone who wouldn't mind helping her grab hold of it!

If you could please ask any of your friends, relatives, neighbours, people you meet on the bus, etc etc to vote for her I will be eternally grateful!

Cheers
Chris Barron"

Forwarded from various other peoples' ljs... would really love to see Kate win (Georgie in the urchins), so if you do have time please go and vote for Renette. www.tellmeaboutyourcharacter.co.uk


"Hi all

A friend of mine Kate Evans who plays Gerogie in the Urchins in the Harts Faction has managed to get herself into the last 4 of a competition to win an all expenses paid trip to Gencon USA (Probably the best roleplay convenion out there).

The last step of the competition comes down to public votes, so this is a shameless beg for any of you who have a few minutes to head on over and vote for me if you feel so inclined.

The website is www.tellmeaboutyourcharacter.co.uk and you will need to vote for her character, Renette

You do need to register before you can vote but this only takes about 30 seconds and your information will be deleted as soon as the competition ends so you won't get any spam, etc.

Voting is done in a knockout style tournament, so if all goes well and she gets through this round I would ask you all to pop back to the site on tomorrow to help get her through the final and win.

Needless to say this is a once in a lifetime opportunity and I would be eternally grateful to anyone who wouldn't mind helping her grab hold of it!

If you could please ask any of your friends, relatives, neighbours, people you meet on the bus, etc etc to vote for her I will be eternally grateful!

Cheers
Chris Barron"

I just rescued Ben from a big scary spider.  hee hee.  : )

I wasn't going to post about the Michael Jackson thing, but actually I've changed my mind.

There are much more important things going on in life closer to home, but it actually does make me kinda sad.  Two things:

1) The first pop song I ever really liked was Bad when I was 3 and had to do a dance to it at kindergarten. So that Christmas my parents bought me the album, and it was the only album I owned until I bought the spice girls album when I was about 10 (my taste had obviously gone down hill!)

2) My best friends at primary school formed a Michael Jackson fan club, but I wasn't allowed to join because I was too self-conscious to do a Michael Jackson impression.  :-P

Ben and I were in a toy shop in Bristol on Saturday, and we discovered that they have re-released "Crossbows and Catapults".  Not only that - it was in the sale for a tenner.

Haven't palyed that game since I was very little.

I wonder if it's still just as exciting?

It does say max age 10yrs on the box.  So should be just fine for us.  : )

Well... I tried to cycle into work this morning.  As I have finally got myself a pump to stop my tyres being flat.

Except it turns out that said pump has a part missing and therefore I can't pump up my tyres.

Which means I can't cycle to work.

Boo.

I have been trying to work out what weekends I have free in October.  So for those interested:

Jackals 9-11th
Vipers 16-18th

Right... I am on the search for two types of cthulhu music!

1) Really creepy background scariness for normal scenes and when people are arriving etc.  If anyone has scary background music they use for cthulhu tabletop could you let me know what you use?

2) Music for actually bellydancing to... this still needs to be kinda creepy to be in keeping with the fact that we are basically doing a stage production of Shadow Over Innsmouth.  Weird underwater type music would also kinda work for some stuff.

Any help much appreciated!

Oh and the icon doesn't represent me despairing... it's just my new cthulhu icon because
( I found this amaing picture )

Eek!  They are publishing the programmes - there's no going back!

Monday 24th august, Malmesbury Town Hall...

Is anyone else's gmail refusing to load?

Accidentally picking up the cayenne pepper because it looks like the paprika is not a good think to do whilst making mushroom stoganoff...

It seems that however adamant the Revenue are that the £1,500 tax refund belongs to me it actually it belongs to Dyson. : (

Apparently this is because I only get a refund because of getting foreign tax credit, which I get because Dyson paid foreign tax. My contract says that Dyson can offset the cost to them using any refund due because of foreign tax credits. So I have to give them the whole £1,500. I also have to pay the revenue £27 on top of that because apparently I didn't pay enough tax on the interest on my bank account last year.

I hope I get some good karma for being honest and not just keeping the money and hoping they didn't notice…

I am unsure exactly how it does it, but whenever I watch pride and prejudice (the full 5 hour bbc version) it unfailingly makes me immensly happy. 

:-)

Today it is lovely and sunny.  I have done lots of housework, cleaned and oiled my bike, and cycled into Malmesbury and back to see how long it takes.  I stopped for cake at the summer cafe when I got there.  It was lovely.  : )

I was inspired by all the sunshine to find a new summery userpic.  Voila!

We turned all out lights off at 8.30pm for 'Earth Hour' (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/7969515.stm).  We were reminded how lovely it is to have candle light instead of electric light.  In fact we still haven't turned the lights on.   It's amazing how much more relaxing candle light is, and actually it does give out enough light to do most things.  We might make it a bit of a habit. 

We played Carcassone by candle light.  I'd not played 2 player before.  It was fun.  : )

I got a letter from HM Revenue and Customs saying that they owe me £1,500. I called them this morning to check that this was actually true and that Dyson weren't going to claim it off me because of it being something to do with being in Malaysia on secondment for them. But apparently it's not Dyson's it's mine and they're sending me a cheque!

Wow! It's weird how money, which would have been mine anyway if I hadn't overpaid them, seems so much more exciting when it is unexpectedly given back.

I had a random thought this evening.  Isn't the standard 3-ball juggling pattern the same as the pattern when you plait something?

So... if you attached string or streamers (or whatever else you like) to the balls could you then create a plait whilst juggling?

I am too tired to go and try this right now, but I thought it was an interesting idea.  I just can't think of any good application for it... any ideas anyone?

Wow - I totally want have a go on some of these:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuYW8GegdWQ

(Yes I realise it's the wrong time of year, but I like it)

Went out for an amazing curry last night with some friends, and ended up fuller than I think I have ever been.

Slept wonderfully and have woken up today feeling productive... I think sewing might happen...