illo packed

illo conkers, originally uploaded by Champignons.

Ok I have finished this picture (well, it's a journal page, and I haven't written in it, but that's probably a good thing and no one should see the innermost workings of my mind) but here are some conkers, to remind you of childhoods unpacking them from their spiky casing to find the biggest shiniest conker for playground domination (after coating it in epoxy resin, or vinegar, if you do not have a chemist fro a father)

illo crow

crow, originally uploaded by Champignons.

clique is a word with not much scope; it have one meaning and that is largely to do with teenage girls.It's a word that come from the french for 'to make a noise' the connection to me seems largely foggy but on contemplating it further i have decided it must somehow relate to those flocks of birds that congregate, squabbling and squarking, and fighting with neighbouring flocks of birds, on playgrounds and parks around the city.

It makes sense, no?

Anyway, happy friday.

Things about me

365 conkers, originally uploaded by Champignons.

I think I got tagged somewhere along the line. Actually, I know, factually, I have been tagged, and tagged about 60 thousand times, tagged to display some interesting facts about me. Here are some facts.

1) I am not very good at doing posts responding to tagging

2) I was possessed of the sudden urge to paint conkers this week.

3) I have to admit that the main reason I am interested in conkers is my current love of marzipan.

4) In case you are not quite grasping the conker/marzipan relationship, when I was in Switzerland at the end of the summer, there was this amazing chocolate shop, and one of the things they sold was a chocolate conker surrounded by a spiky green marzipan conkercase. It was very realistic, but much more delicious.

Every time I see one of these I'm thinking about marzipan.

5) That was the same conference that i achieved the academic highs of persuading one of the worlds leading oceanographers to cheat at a game I liked to call 'cheese hurling' so I won. We also made some other noted academics sing the song 'take a chance on me' by ABBA.

6) I end my facts of intrestingness with some words of advice I have discovered for myself this very day: Ask paypal a simple question and they will give you a simple answer. Sadly this answer will have absolutely no relevance to the actual question you asked,so you might as well not bother.


There you go. I consider my tagging duty complete and anyone that wishes to be tagged can consider themselves tagged.