Day 201 - Comfort Eating

Day 201

Day 200 - A visit from Mum

Day 199 - Throwing my Money about......

Day 198 - Beaten by Chocolate

Day 197 - Attack of the 15 Foot Seagull (aka Conversations with my Friends #5)

Anybody not familiar with Mark Dion's Mobile Gull Appreciation Unit from the 2008 Folkestone Triennial should probably click on this link for some basic information about it.

Photos taken at Miss Club Shepway Bathing Beauties Contest 2008

Day 196 - Pigeon Chaos

Day 195 - Conversations with my Friends #4: I love watching you justify things

Day 194 - Pigeon Eviction

Day 193 - Collecting

Books don't count because....

Day 192 - Flatmate In Flagrante

I think what made this SO embarrassing is that being in our teens, and all having just left home for the very first time, there was a real possibility that someone in our group of friends was still kind of clueless in THAT respect. And now everyone thought it was me.

Awkward.

Day 191 - Sticker Swap Strife

Day 190 - Sketchbook Fetish

Fantastic sketchbooks I have allowed myself to purchase include an amazing (and sadly out of print) Flamingo sketchbook from Art House Meath, a fantastic social enterprise selling the designs of talented epileptic artists. There are loads more gorgeous designs available so click on the link here.

Other sketchbooks include the Happy Jackson 'undiscovered genius' one, a TK Maxx 'Pyramids' bargain, a high quality Boden freebie, and my current fave, a Rob Ryan 'I made it with my hands' one (I can't find the size I bought, but you can buy a bigger version in the sale here).

Day 189 - There's starving kitties in Africa you know?!

Day 188 - A Summer of Builders

I hope those builders have a good sense of humour; my window seat will be very busy this summer!

Day 187 - Anarchist Seagulls!

The naughty gulls seem to be staging a sit-in protest!

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Seagull Update 18/03/14

Nice expert man came to look at gulls today, they are not nesting but 'spring cleaning' in anticipation of breeding season so can still be encouraged to move to ensure safe mating this year. Gulls are safe, and tatty building gets done up. Win win all round!

Day 186 - Summer Sledging

Day 185 - Stripper in the hot tub

Day 184 - Jellyfish

Day 183 - Summer Bliss HALF WAY THROUGH THE PROJECT! Woop Woop!!!!

Day 182 - Sharkbite

*our parents DID NOT approve, but By God, we had fun!!

** Sadly, we lost touch. If anyone from Auckland knows Bimbo & Rick, send them to this blog ;)

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As a side note, this Shark Tracker website is fascinating.

You can follow the travels of individual sharks and see pictures of them with their bio.

My favourites are Poseidon and Albertina (she's magnificent!)

You can also follow current Media Starlet Lydia.

Day 181 - Beaky Lives!!!

This all came about because Beaky's parents (did you know gulls mate with the same partner every year and return to the same nesting site for most of the fertile part of their 30 year lifespans?) have returned to the roof and are building their nest as I type!

I am looking forward to this years batch of chicks.

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Another artist shared this amazing time-lapse album of a nest being built with me, and I don't think she'll mind if you all take a look. The detail is amazing, the nests are built piece by piece in absolutely painstaking fashion; the gulls (cleverly) dip some pieces in water to soften them and make the nest easier to mold!

Click this link to see the images.

Thanks Leigh.

(ps. click her name to see her artwork)

Day 180 - How Garfield lost his nose.

NB: I was about 9-10, and nobody (not even me) knew I had any sort of mental health issue back then. I was just considered 'naughty'.

Day 179 - Lasagna

I was, however, not allowed to eat it in any of these ways....

Day 178 - Reading Time

Day 177 - I can't eat that, it's Fattening!

Day 176 - Sunbathing

Suck on that Kitty!

Day 165 - Manflu

Day 174 - Charity Shop Covetousness

Day 173 - Bad Gran!

Day 172 - Bawdy Baking (N.S.F.W)

Day 171 - Crocodile Quandary