Brynna, Wales: Post-Christmas ramblings/ramble

'Post- Christmas shopping chalking'

YO

(Mum threw them in there because I dropped them on the floor when the car door opened and then stood on around ten trying to work out what I had done...)

'BRANCH OUT'

Be a tree.

(A grape tree. If that is what you like...)

Pick up a stick!

...if pretending to be on a horse with a sword feels like 'branching out' for you...

(Works for some)

I love Brynna mountains

So cleeeeean

Keep on keepin' on

Even when it's windy

And things seem far away

'cause you always get there in the end

and when you do...

...it looks even better at the top for all the effort you made.

'I used to be a church'

Now I'm a place where people come to peer and walk and take photos...

 :)

Boxing Day, 2013

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Scouring the internet: Christmas chalking homework

It's really cold outside and it's really cold inside. The rain hasn't stopped since I woke up and I can't bear putting warmer clothes on because it would mean taking off a layer before getting to the good stuff.

So, here goes. Homework.

Of course, this isn't really homework, it's just me having a nose to see what other people are chalking/have chalked out there, so that by the time this gross weather stops and my camera lead reappears (hopefully somewhere really obvious like in my hand), I'll have lots of ideas for chalking experiments in 2013.

(It also means I can play about with chalk-related pictures from the comfort of my alien duvet covers. No raindrops in sight.)

Homework -20th December, 2012

Other People Chalking

  



Helen Levitt took this photo as part of a series of pictures aiming to document the lives of children on the streets in 1940s America.

I just like this. It reminds me of a book I've just asked my mum to get me called 'How to be an Explorer of the World'.

This doesn't look much like chalk to me, but I like the broken bicycle in the corner. I like to think someone tried to cycle across the tyres leaning against the wall, but that it went a little wrong about 90% of the way across...

This is what the BBC published this morning (21/12/12) in an article about how the people who believed the world will end today, are going to cope now that the world's still going.

I bet they're well chuffed.

I know how this looks, but it's not true...

Liverpool, UK: Celebrating a Birthday

 'It's my Birthday!!'

'YAY'

'Icon People'

('ICON' was the student radio station we all presented on back when we were studying at The University of Liverpool)

Alex, Tommy B and Maffus.

This is us not eating food, not drinking tea, and not talking about Mike's previous comment in the Philharmonic Pub about me dressing like a boy in Uni...

Tom taking the opportunity to show me just how much his friend Alex looks like John Lennon...

Me leaning over a balcony at the Kazimier Club in Liverpool with my housemate Mags.

I couldn't chalk here (too many watching eyes) but I did accidentally leave my mark anyway (I saw a nice skirt at the market and, in my excitement, spilt mulled wine all over my coat and all over the*...)

Mmm, mulled wine.

*floor.

Brynna, UK: New chalk box for Christmas 2010

MERRY CHRISTMAS CHALK BOX OF MINE!

After covering the insides of my pockets with chalk all summer, my sister decided that it was time I got "a proper home" for my chalk to live in...