community

so good.

community service announcements by jeremyville. remember when he did all the minties wrappers? evidently, he still has a pretty good sense of visual humour.

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merci had a tintin themed party. i went as tintin as seen here (in america). i should have gone as that bear.

tron

 i've been talking about tron a lot recently.

 most (no, all) people think i'm crazy because of it.

but i know what they're missing out on.

i can make it on my own

li'l brudder. kills me every time.

birthday

i'm particularly fond of my birthday beluga from rach.

anthony, my cake hero. (cake made by ellie).

this is me.

according to ye, my housemate, i look like chihiro from 'spirited away'. a compliment, i assure you. if you haven't seen it, you must.

bits and bobs

a very social week...

on my way to soph's for dinner on tuesday

hippy nic is in town with his girlfriend, anna, who is/was a vivien's girl and is doing quite well for herself. met up with nic on wednesday and wandered around looking for food and ended up on the vegan bus in a carpark near brick lane. really, really good food.

i am my father's daughter. (thanks dad!)

victoria park again on friday. they don't call it Picturesque for nothing, i must have taken this same photo 20 times every time i'm in the park.  a very cold and grey day.

young sophie in my living room on friday night. we devoured a very posh cheese platter and a bottle of wine before brooke even arrived. and then dinner,  out to yang's briefly and potentially out on the town, though it was too cold and way too hard!

a bag full of...

hey there sophie (i hear you ask), what's in that big, duck-egg blue bag you've got there?

it's a bag of pandas (i reply), and some of them are quite surprised.

(for ellie)

(for me)

and a bright red pepper grinder that came in handy when making lunch.

flash flash

ellie, kat, olivia and i went to flash for a most scrumptious lunch today. it's a temporary restaurant in the royal academy set up by the bistroteque people and it was most delicious. the plates are commemorative wedgewood (it's their 250th anniversary) and they have various collaborations (a chandelier by giles deacon, thonet chairs etc) within. the place closes at the end of next week therefore everything is for sale... my reasoning is as such : seeing as though wedgewood is going under (horrible, shocking, awful i know. stupid recession.) and i like pandas (and i had to leave rosie at home) i shall go and purchase some lovely crockery and not feel guilty about it. they're collectors items. come on.

they also had a lovely man playing pop tunes on the baby grand. lunch became a mini game of spicks and specks. kat lost.

life imitating art

when i awoke this morning i opened the little window beside my bed only to be greeted by kanga.

i took about a million photos of her, trying to get the light right, before figuring that i got at least one good shot and getting up out of bed. it was only then that i realised that she had a baby roo with her and he promptly jumped into her pouch for a photo op. they're so well camouflaged though aren't they?

and it was this that really reminded me of roo from 'winnie the pooh'

he always seems to be having such a lot of fun! easily the best character (followed quite closely by tigger).

no cash

young david and i went to see 'quantum of solace' on friday night and that took up a large portion of the last of my money. so saturday night was a bit quiet. i planned to watch 'moulin rouge!' because after seeing the preview for 'australia' (and getting a bit teary - i know, getting ahead of myself homesickness-wise) i remembered how much i like baz luhrmann and his lavish productions...

... but, there happened to be a spongebob marathon under way. yep, he's playing his nose is a forlorn fashion because his "best-day-ever" wasn't working out the way he planned. i can relate, though i can't play my nose as well as him (i did try though).

spoke to ellie via skype, that was pretty good too. we were kind of dressed the same as well, darn american apparel! she said my coat arrived safely, as did my ugg boots. awesome.

oh alice!

josh bought me this funny 'alice' book on that missionary ship, doulos. it's a picture book that was originally printed in the 50s when the disney film came out. i still have my vhs copy of the movie but it's nice to have such easy access to these images.

if i were ever to get a sleeve, it would be this. best scene ever.

'the time has come,' the walrus said.