Now is the end of Easter Weekend, which just so happened to coincide with Jonis first pay-day, so went on a trip to Edinburgh to celebrate and spent his whole pay cheque. But its ok, he gets another one next week! hurra! Being paid weekly is going to be so dangerous! It was a fantastic trip - we went to see the Scottish National Ballet do Alice, an adaptation of Alice in Wonderland. It was very, very good, turns out i love the ballet. The music was fantastic and the dancing we beautiful. We also saw a brilliant show in the Fruitmarket Gallery (which is rapidly becoming my favourite gallery in Edinburgh) about the Narcissus myth throughout modern art. I got to see the Dali painting Metamorphosis of Narcissus, along with a poem Dali wrote to accompany the painting. This is the picture. You will almost certainly have seen it before.
Its amazing, iv seen that image so many times on posters and on screens, but to see the picture for real, in the flesh up close and personal was just majical. There are some things a replica just can't convey. The exhibition as a whole was fascinating, all thought i would say not brilliantly curated. I think some of the images could have been displayed better. On the whole however, if you are in Edinburgh in the next month i would highly recommend it.
Easter Weekend has also seen the start of a Grand New Project for myself and Joni. This Grand New Project requires some explaining...
As everyone knows, the weather this last few weeks has be wonderful, and myself and Joni have been lamenting the fact we have no garden in our rented flat. There is a bit of space behind out flat, but when i say bit i mean you can stretch your arms and touch both sides. Our bins live here and a lot of weeds, and thats about it. However, we have noticed that next to this little scrub land is the ruins of a long-derelict house. It has 4 standing walls and a few blocked up windows and only one access door - from our "back garden". We have decided to turn this space into a little squatters garden for ourselves. We have literally no idea who owns it, but they don't seem to care much about it. The place has clearly been used as a dumping ground for years. Here a picture to try and show the space, but it is very hard to photograph fully.
We made a big pile of mud! Yay! Well done us!
Seriously though, we have made a lot of progress and everyone is invited to our BBQ celebration party when we finish it around September!
Off home to Notts for the long weekend next weekend. VERY excited. Can't wait to see everyone!
You deserve a little splash out. The garden is a great project.
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