Cardiff, UK: Being a rascal at Printhaus

This week, I invaded my sister's studio at Printhaus in Cardiff.

(That's my mum. She likes to invite herself to the Printhaus studios too.

In this photo, she's pretending to be some sort of elf helper, drying and ironing tea towels)

I LOVE the Printhaus

Not only because it has a comfy living room area with yellow paintings on the windows and an endless supply of tea, but it also has:

A garden full of vegetables 

Ace graffiti on the walls...

...and an outside bar that looks like this!

'this is a bar'

And look!

'This is God'

So cool.

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Cardiff Bay, UK: Finding Moonrise Kingdom...

Today, I found a little bit of Moonrise Kingdom-esque magic down Cardiff Bay...

No?

"I love you, but you don't know what you're talking about."

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Liverpool, UK: Look at me, I'm in the sea (sort of)

Look at me!

I'm in the sea!

Well, Sefton Park lake...

Can you read what it says?

No?

Oh well, you'll just have to admire the fact that I've managed to find the only stone in Sefton Park Lake and I'm stood on it...

HAPPY MONDAY!

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Tour de France 2014!

The 2014 Tour de France starts in Leeds today, so I chalked a bike on the carpet in work and made Mary Anne Hobbs pretend to cycle it.

It's OK to be Grumpy.

 "There is joy in contrast...

being high all the time must be such a drag"

- Rob Parsonson

Sefton Park, Liverpool: Feeding Squirrels

I haven't chalked in a while because my head has been full of other stuff.

So yesterday I went to my favourite place in the North, to clear out my cluttered mind...

And what's the best way to free up some brain space?

Go feeding squirrels, of course.

Yo!

Want a monkey nut?

Yup. I said a monkey nut.

Don't look at me like that. You LOVE monkey nuts.

The old man I met in the park last week told me so...

Yep, it's a nut. Stop looking so petrified and make my day by eating it.

Finally.

This one wasn't out of my hand but I tried...

...and I chased a few horrible pigeons away in the process.

Aah.

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Hey everybody! I'm back on my bike!

Hey everybody!

(This is me trying to get my message, body AND bike into one photo.)

I'm back on my (chalking) bike!

HOORAH

It's only been 5 days, right?

AND IT'S SUMMER!

Such perfect timing.

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