Sick Trip Party

Sick

Today was probably the most pleasant experience I've ever had of being sick. (except possibly milky baby sick times) Obviously it wasn't pleasant, being sick never is, but if I had to relive one of my being sick experiences again it would be today's. I was at work teaching willow sculpture to year 5 and it was the beginning of lunch but children were still working on their sculptures, I felt fine until about 5 minutes leading up to it. I dismissed the class, was sick in the staff toilet and then felt almost totally fine, ate some lunch and carried on with my day.

That's totally the way to do it when you're self employed. You've got to just man up and get on with it. I decided there's no point going home, if I was going to be sick again I might as well do it in school rather than in my car while driving home. Last time I told myself to man up was when I was getting into and extremely hot bath and I couldn't be bothered to put anymore cold water in. Dan said 'if anything I needed to woman up' when I asked what he meant by that he say 'you should dither more, and go out for cups of tea and natter more' I'm probably a bit too decisive and focused. I'll work on that...or maybe I won't ,who knows maybe I'll invite a friend out for cupper and we can have a good old natter about the whole thing and not really come to any conclusions.

Trip

In other news our trip plans are coming together we now have our whole trip planned out day by day, we have panniers for our bikes and geeky T-shirts that match the colours of our bikes. You should totally follow us in twitter we have invented our own hash tag: #2q8

Here is an embarrassing picture of us next to our foldy bikes wearing our T-shirts:

I ordered mine too big by accident because I got confused by american sizes, but vista print are going to send me a new smaller one for free because I complained. I'm pretty good at complaining.... I got a free second ice cream from sefton park at the weekend because I complained that my first one was horrible.


Party

If you read my previous blog I mentioned Joe Fred's no electriciy party was coming up. It was one of the best parties I've ever been to. I'd post a photo but no cameras were allowed. I sculpted this snail at the party though:

I made this while there was a fire on one side of me and Alex playing the cello on the other side of me. From a health and saftey point of view it was one of the most dangerous parties I'd ever been to, with  two slightly out of control fires, alcohol, hammers and chissels, lots of people in a very tight space, and no lights. Also if things did get out of hand no one would be able to phone the fire brigade, because phones were banned. Oh well - we all know that as risk increases fun increases up until that critcal injury/ death point of course then fun dramatically decreases. Unless you're in heaven jumping into chocolate waterfalls and stuff.