Yesterday I made a shelf out of some old bits of furniture:

And because the weather was so nice, I got my legs out for the first time this year but then it rained:

I love my new robot bag.

You can buy it here:

https://thetuts.bandcamp.com/track/let-go-of-the-past

I can’t wait for the album!

How awesome is that?

It’s by Robin Eisenberg.

I’ve had a fantastic time at Going Up The Country this weekend. So many great bands and lots of lovely friends. Even the massive around of rain didn’t dampen the fun. Plus I got to do some proper dancing for the first time since I broke my leg.

Here are some photos:

Milky Wimpshake

Baby Arms

Town Bike

Linda and Bear

Jo and Pete

Chorusgirl

Kelly and Jo

The Primitives

Kev

Ian and Sharon

Michael

Jeremy

Jo and Jo

Dancing

Perkie

Vinnie, Albie and Jo

David Leach

The Mini Skips

The Popguns

Chrissy Barnacle

If you go to https://www.powerpuffyourself.com you can make a picture of yourself as a powerpuff girls character – it’s the greatest thing!

I’ve always wanted to be a powerpuff girl and now I am 😀

This morning on my way to work I’m inexplicably happy despite a day of work ahead of me. The fact that it is snowing (though only a paltry amount) could be a factor as that cheers me no end. Also I trimmed my beard last night which always makes me feel ten years younger. But I think it’s mainly because Jo was singing Friday I’m In Love earlier and it’s earwormed me and I’ve been singing it to myself all the way to work. Happy Friday everyone :-).

This is me and Jo at the campsite disco on the last night of indietracks this year:

This is a really nice article about anti-war themes in Studio Ghibli films:

https://medium.com/dan-sanchez/miyazaki-s-beautiful-antiwar-dreams-44951be1be11

No film has ever made me cry so much as Grave of the Fireflies. From about 5 minutes into it until about an hour after it I was just bawling my eyes out. Even just reading that article has made my eyes well up again.

I really want to watch all the Ghibli films again now but maybe not Grave of the Fireflies, that would be too much…