I have been to see a business adviser about perhaps starting my own business making props and live role playing equipment. Its just an idea but I am fed up with employers making me redundant, of not being good enough for them, of being stuck between jobs waiting for someone to take pity on me and employ me again for a short while before dropping me ( Read more... )

Another infrequent update. Motivation, or lack thereof. Whence went my motivation? its something I have very little of, and coffee will only go so far as a substitute. I lost a lot of my love of larp some nine or so years ago when I had a bad trading session at an event and took it very hard, probably more than I should have. Since then my larping ( Read more... )

Here I am again, and here is another brief summary post. It has been hot recently and sleep is hard to find. Still unemployed, nine months out of work and not a single interview despite many jobs applied for. Considering going self employed if no one else will employ me. The car has broken down one too many times so we are trying to find another, ( Read more... )

Things have happened, not so much in a massive way, but just an everyday way that barely requires writing up. In short, I am still unemployed, our eldest cat Teeko died and affected us all very much and will be missed. We were going to go to the Empire LRP but had to pull out because we ran out of money and needed the ticket money back. I had in ( Read more... )

As it says, I am still here. More later, maybe.

It is raining, the UK is flooding again. At least it is no longer sweat inducingly hot. I am sitting around waiting for a delivery of latex and plaster. I had fifty pounds and had to decide, do I spend it on frivolous things, or replace the hard drive that broke the other day, or do I buy some materials to make larp props and turn that fifty pounds ( Read more... )

Aaargh! give me a job, if nothing else so I don't have to wrestle with stupid jobsites and accounts and signing on and aaargh!

Long ago I decided to make puppets and video them to tell stories. Originally I wanted to do something like a cross between Robin of Sherwood and Lord of the Rings, very high goals there. I decided puppets were not just for kids, and that I could get a better performance from an amateur puppeteers than an amateur actor (having known several drama ( Read more... )

Well it is snowing outside, a good heavy [for the UK] dose of snow. Heavy enough for me to have had to lean out of an upper window and use the yard brush to clean the snow off the satellite dish so I could get the signal back. I love the snow, and I laugh at the techno-fail ( Read more... )

Just to say, still here, really crappy internet connection made it not worth trying to update. Problem solved now, hope to resume posting. Have a Happy Yuletide everyone :)