london & arundel

(above) supposed inside of arundel...

this past week, b&i went to london and checked out the science museum, chinatown, the crap oriental canteen place, buckingham palace, well... basically tons of tourist stuff. i'd been waiting for ben to come, because doing tourist stuff is way funner {yes, funner} when you have a bf around. oh yeah. kinda fun=by yourself, fun!=with a friend, funner=with a significant other. oh yeahh.
we hung out with the park and watched these boys practicing drink tricks, i suppose they were bartenders, but they were really good at juggling martini shakers etc, i hope they make good tips. oh man.
then come the night time, we got some snacks for the train, and went home to make cream cheese wontons and watch a nice romantic film... jurassic park. "oh yeah dog." (i've been saying that too much.)
then last weekend was kieron's birthday.. the big two one. and ben phillips & pia made a wicked amazing dragon birthday cake. covered with candies. and we went to "born bad" the 50s night at komedia club. pretty good! i got a lighter at the sunday market that looks like an OLD cell phone... pretty amazing. and funny. probably best buy in brighton.
then the other day, charlie brown, ben's past tour manager, and present friend, came down for the visit and we went to Arundel to see a castle that was way too expensive to go inside. that's fine though, plus it was a cop out because most of it was built in the 18th century. LAME. but it was really pretty & there was tons of wildlife to see. (see swan above, obviously.)
also, this weekend, marcroy smith & ben schauland decided to start a magazine called "amskat" amateur skating magazine. and i've been named the official photographer.. i might draw pictures too.

basically i need a fish-eye lens, to make good skate pics. obviously. but it is an amateur skating mag. ha!

ps some other pics are:
a store called "cyber candy" that sells american things, including the illegal "mountain dew"... because of bromine. look it up.
a plaque on the bathroom stall that scared the dickins out of me. really sketch.
low tide in littlehampton. ben's out there. we saw immigrants digging for muscles in the sand.
a "tv on the radio" at snooper's paradise. pretty good.
english countryside right outside brighton.
mannequins from an amazing AMAZING retro ragstock-type store in soho, london.
a scary "cleaning" machine in asda.. aka walmart. i don't know what i'd trust to clean in there.
me dancing at 50s night.
ahh!